Former CIA Counterintelligence Chiefs Weigh in on The Fourth Man
OPINION — Robert Baer’s book The Fourth Man leads readers to conclude—falsely—that highly accomplished, retired CIA officer Paul Redmond was himself a long-time spy for the […] More
OPINION — Robert Baer’s book The Fourth Man leads readers to conclude—falsely—that highly accomplished, retired CIA officer Paul Redmond was himself a long-time spy for the […] More
BREAKING TODAY — Former CIA Director Gina Haspel is taking over as Chair of The CIA Officers Memorial Foundation’s board of directors. Haspel replaces Jeffrey […] More
OPINION — Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video meeting with the Russia Presidential Council for Human Rights and Civil Society, a […] More
OPINION — We asked our students and colleagues a few questions recently. While sitting at home on your couch, did you see satellite images of […] More
OPINION — Today’s Intelligence Community (IC) open source capability is neglected, structurally compromised, and wholly inadequate to protect the United States. The failure of open […] More
OPINION – For those who have been privileged enough to read, write for, or brief the Intelligence Community’s President’s Daily Brief (PDB), the following quote […] More
“Just as we pulled together as a nation in the early days of the space race, we simply must redouble our efforts to develop the […] More
OPINION — Publicly Available Information (PAI), and its related discipline Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), have long been perceived in government as less vital to national […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVES — We are living in times of intense challenges – the biggest war in Europe since World War II, economic stress as we […] More
OPINION — Two reports released last Wednesday raise separate questions about the ability of the Defense Department (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) to meet the […] More
OPINION — There are undoubtedly those who wonder why the President of the United States would bother to address the American public about the death […] More
It’s possible that the terrorist leader, wanted for his role in plotting the 9/11 attacks and later becoming the head of al Qaeda after the […] More
OPINION — No one has described today’s Russian President Vladimir Putin better than CIA Director William J. Burns did last Wednesday at a security forum […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Threats from Russia and its “ally” Belarus are still coming as the invasion of Ukraine grinds through its fifth month but where […] More
In Part I of this Opinion Series on Innovation, I explained How the Intelligence Community Kills Ideas and specifically illustrated how IC bureaucracy crushed employee […] More
OPINION — I recently saw a creative idea killed. Like a professional hit, the kill was silent and non-attributable. Managers essentially neutralized the employee—let’s call […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — When I was just starting out at CIA, there was an analyst in my group who worked in a particularly methodical way. […] More
OPINION — For those of us who have been privileged to work at the Central Intelligence Agency, there is no place more sacred than the […] More
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