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Checkmate, Comrade: Espionage, Surveillance, and the Quiet Rebellion over the Chess Board

Spy’s Mate, A NovelBy Brad Buchanan / Thinkers PublishingReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer — Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The opinions expressed are ...
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The Next Revolution in U.S. Intelligence: Leaner, Smarter, Technology-Driven

It is time to reimagine the US intelligence community (IC). The 1947 National Security Act established the CIA which arguably had the biggest impact on the modern age of U.S. intelligence. Subsequent ...
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David McCloskey: Secrets of a Novelist

David McCloskey, former CIA Analyst turned novelist is out with his fourth book, The Persian, about an Iranian dentist who is recruited by Mossad to take on a dangerous mission inside Iran. Cover ...
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Forget Guerrillas and IEDs - The Next Asymmetric War is Being Engineered Now

Dr. Dave Venable is Chair of the Institute for Strategic Risk and Security (ISRS), Senior Fellow at the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure, and CISO-in-Residence with the Professional ...
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Despite the Shutdown, Pentagon Has Billions from the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act'

The [Defense] Department [DoD] will continue to defend the nation and conduct ongoing military operations. It will continue activities funded with any available budgetary resources that have not ...
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Daniel Hoffman

Hoffman served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive clandestine service officer with assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle ...
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Michael Vickers

Dr. Michael Vickers served as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, and Interdependent ...
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Steven A. Cash

Cash is the Executive Director of The Steady State. He also served as former Senior Advisor the Under Secretary for Intelligence at DHS and as Chief Counsel and Staff Director (Minority) to a ...
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Rob Dannenberg

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He ...
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Kelly Bissell

Kelly Bissell joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President in 2022. Prior to this, he led Accenture’s Global Security business. With more than 25 years of security industry experience, Bissell ...
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Karl Wagner

Karl Wagner spent 29 years at the CIA, serving in his last position as chief of Counter-Intelligence Operations, where he advocated for inclusion of resiliency efforts into CIA’s Insider Threat ...