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General Michael Hayden

The Cipher Brief means intelligence for business. And business has never needed a clear global picture more than now. I've been doing this for nearly fifty years and I have never seen the globe more complicated nor the effects of distant events more immediately felt. Seasoned intelligence professionals speak freely and candidly every day on The Cipher Brief and bring their intellect, their experience and their global networks to bear on what will be tomorrow's news.

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