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Front-Row Seat to a CIA (Veteran) Briefing on Iran

Front-Row Seat to a CIA (Veteran) Briefing on Iran

Cipher Brief experts General (ret) Michael Hayden and former CIA senior officer Norman Roule have had many conversations on the subject of Iran and the broader Middle East—but not usually in front of a public audience. The two served together in the U.S. intelligence community, with Hayden as former CIA and NSA chief, and Roule most recently as National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

On Monday, Hayden hosted Roule at George Mason University’s Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and International Security for a wide-ranging conversation covering Iranian history, the Islamic regime’s current destabilizing activities and U.S. regional policy.

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