U.S. – Russia Summit Likely to Kick Spying Efforts into High Gear

As details are released about the upcoming summit between the U.S. and Russia, Intelligence Officers are expected to ramp up collection efforts in order to prep the field ahead of talks.

“Whenever you’ve got a summit coming up, your intelligence community, and your opponent’s kicks into high gear,” says Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Chief of Station Dan Hoffman. “The President is going to say ‘Ok, what are the Russians going to bring to this meeting’?  ‘What are they saying about the top 10 things I care about?’  So the onus is now on our intelligence community to go out and collect that intelligence, steal those secrets, to inform the President and his team.”

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