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The Cipher Brief's Hottest Summer Reading

The Cipher Brief's Hottest Summer Reading

CIPHER BRIEF FEATURE REPORTING -- With the 4th of July holiday fast approaching, now is a good time for our annual summer list of recommended beach [...] More

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A Donkey’s Tale of 1960 London Spycraft

BOOK REVIEW: Mrs Spy/Aria BooksBy M.J. RobothamReviewed by: Anne and Jay GunerThe Reviewer — Anne and Jay Gruner were career CIA officers in analysis [...] More

America’s Research Labs Are Wide Open to Espionage. AI Can Help Fix That.

OPINION — The United States is losing its most valuable intellectual property at an alarming rate. While policymakers debate how to balance security [...] More

How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?

Beth Sanner is a principal member of The Cipher Brief’s Gray Zone Group, a gathering of experts focused on raising awareness of adversarial [...] More

A Cold War Spy Dossier Revealed - With Lessons for Today

OPINION — Earlier this month, a tranche of British Security Service (MI5) records was declassified on the most notorious traitors in modern British [...] More

'Straight Talk' on China's Offensives in the American Homeland 

EXPERT VIEW — 2024 has brought multiple reminders of the threats – real and potential – posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Over the past [...] More

An All-of-Society Approach to US Counterintelligence  

OPINION — The United States stands at a crossroads, facing threats as insidious as they are immense. State-sponsored espionage, led by China, seeks [...] More

The U.S. Needs a More Accurate Estimate of China’s Commercial Espionage  

OPINION — The massive looting of the U.S. economy via Chinese state-sponsored intellectual property (IP) theft has risen almost to the level of [...] More

How Does the CIA Recruit Russian Spies?

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — As any good intelligence officer will tell you, recruiting spies is a tough business. Not only do you have to identify - and [...] More

WEEKEND INTERVIEW: Russia's War - and   Russian Espionage - Are Causing Havoc in Europe

WEEKEND INTERVIEW: Russia's War - and Russian Espionage - Are Causing Havoc in Europe

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian espionage and disinformation campaigns have [...] More

U.S. and Allies Warn Veteran Pilots: China Is Trying to Recruit You

U.S. and Allies Warn Veteran Pilots: China Is Trying to Recruit You

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — The U.S. and its allies in the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing community – Britain, Australia, Canada and New [...] More

'Lamps are Going Out all over Europe' when it comes to Russian Espionage

OPINION — The day before Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, the Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend that “the lamps [...] More

Chalk Marks: A Review of The Sympathizer

ENTERTAINMENT — “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.”This opening sentence of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is one of the [...] More