Scott Uehlinger

About the author

Scott Uehlinger, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, is a retired CIA operations officer and Naval Reserve officer. He resides with his wife and daughter in the Lehigh Valley. Scott can be contacted via LinkedIn and has spoken widely at both Pennsylvania- and NYC-based universities on Russian and intelligence matters.

Why the present focus on Russian disinformation programs?

Although, or perhaps because, we seem to have a problem with politicization of the Intelligence Community – not many intelligence officers wish to view current national security problems through a political lens – if they expressed such views as I have described below – their careers would be in jeopardy, at a minimum. Conservative columnists […]

Former CIA operations officer weighs in on expulsion of Russian diplomats

The report card has been in for a while, and the news is not good. U.S. counterintelligence, our ability to protect U.S. national security secrets from our enemies and rivals, is in shambles. It doesn’t take a former CIA station chief like me to see the stark wreckage of failure surrounding the intel community like the aftermath of […]