OPINION — Based on my numerous assignments abroad, my work for the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey as his Special Assistant and [...]
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Cipher Brief Expert John McLaughlin is former Acting Director of the CIA, former Deputy CIA Director and is the Distinguished Practitioner in [...]
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OPINION — President Trump and his team are trying to come up with at least one last minute foreign policy success before Election Day, just 21 days [...]
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Kyle Sullivan is China Practice Lead at Martin + Crumpton Group, a global risk intelligence advisory firm based in Arlington, Va. He previously spent [...]
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Cipher Brief Expert Martin Petersen is the former Deputy Executive Director of the CIA. At the time of Tiananmen, he was Deputy Director of the [...]
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Ambassador Joseph DeTrani is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who served over two decades with the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of the [...]
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CIPHER BRIEF EXPERT VIEW — Mark Kelton is a retired senior Central Intelligence Agency executive who retired in 2015 with 34 years of experience in [...]
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A whirlwind of actions and statements regarding Hong Kong over the past week has increased tensions between the US and China. Even before Beijing [...]
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The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trend Line Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontJust this week, members of Ukrainian far-right groups were photographed attending protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese [...]
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The Cipher Brief’s NEW Open Source Collection Report (OSINT) uses open source data to track trends around the world that impact national and global [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontBeijing is hyper-sensitive to public criticism and does not hesitate to use its economic power for leverage in silencing [...]
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China’s communist leadership is struggling over how to respond to Hong Kong’s swelling protests. Giving in to protesters’ demands for democracy or [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontChina has taken a page from Russia’s playbook as Beijing systematically wages an online disinformation campaign aimed at [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIn Hong Kong and Moscow, long-simmering undercurrents of political opposition have pitted protesters against unrepresentative [...]
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