If you’ve done any reporting on national security issues in Washington DC, you probably already know JJ Green. He’s been covering national security [...]
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I was introduced to Jimmy Hatch via email in late 2014. I was months away from launching The Cipher Brief and a mutual friend who volunteers his time [...]
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I was introduced to Jimmy Hatch via email in late 2014. I was months away from launching The Cipher Brief and a mutual friend who volunteers his time [...]
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Wartime has been a force multiplier for espionage ever since the Revolutionary War, when General George Washington was the founding father of the art [...]
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Wartime has been a force multiplier for espionage ever since the Revolutionary War, when General George Washington was the founding father of the art [...]
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The Cipher Brief's State of Play series encompasses reviews of the books, movies and TV shows that help shape our understanding of the national [...]
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The Cipher Brief's State of Play series encompasses reviews of the books, movies and TV shows that help shape our understanding of the national [...]
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As General Douglas MacArthur famously said, "Old soldiers don't die, they just fade away." In the world of fiction, old spies don't die or fade away [...]
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The latest episode of Homeland introduces new plot twists into the two parallel story lines: the government case against jihadist Seiku Bah and CIA [...]
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Susan Williams’ book, Spies in the Congo, provides a well-researched and detailed history of the efforts of the Office of Strategic Services, [...]
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Mark Henshaw’s latest spy thriller could have been ripped straight from today’s headlines as tensions between Moscow and Washington continue to [...]
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Brad Thor’s latest thriller Foreign Agent is the fifteenth in his Scot Harvath series, and finds former Navy SEAL Harvath fighting both ISIS and evil [...]
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Edward Snowden is back in the news. Oliver Stone's sympathetic and conspiracy-heavy biopic landed in theaters this month. Meanwhile, a raft of [...]
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The Cipher Brief asked our network member Mark Kelton, the former CIA Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Counterintelligence, [...]
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Duty and Honor is the latest in the multi-volume series by Tom Clancy and his successors featuring Jack Ryan and his son Jack, Jr., who works in the [...]
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Daniel Silva’s The Black Widow is the most relevant to contemporary events and most chillingly prescient of all his celebrated novels. Gabriel Allon, [...]
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