OPINION — “The beginning of wisdom”, according to a quote ascribed to Confucius, “is to call things by their proper name.” That saying came to mind [...]
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — “Nothing”, Fyodor Dostoevsky observed in Crime and Punishment, “is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more [...]
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — I hope CIA has an agent like Dmitry Polyakov operating in Moscow right now. A Major General in Soviet Military Intelligence (the [...]
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Mark Kelton, Former Deputy Director, CIA's Counterintelligence, National Clandestine ServiceCipher Brief Expert Mark Kelton is a retired senior [...]
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Ties between Russia and China go far beyond mutual lessons-learned and policy coordination. They have entered into cooperative arrangements that pose [...]
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In 1937, Winston Churchill contrasted the “two rival religions” of Nazism and Communism then afflicting the world. Those fascist and communist [...]
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OPINION — A recent email from the current Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chief of Counterintelligence (C/CI), wherein Agency retirees were [...]
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Counterintelligence in a Time of CrisisMark Kelton is a former senior Central Intelligence Agency executive who retired in 2015 with 34 years of [...]
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(Editor’s Note: Understanding the life of a spy is often difficult, especially understanding the experiences of those who spend much of their careers [...]
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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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Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, Mark Kelton wrote for The Cipher Brief back in 2017 that, The Man in the [...]
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In part two of 'The Coming Chinese Storm', former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence at the CIA's National Clandestine Service, Mark Kelton, [...]
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