Former CIA employees blast Trump’s speech in front of memorial wall

Former CIA employees blast Trump’s speech in front of memorial wall

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump made a pit stop at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to give a 15 minute speech to approximately 400 employees of America’s strategic intelligence agency.  The speech failed to mention anything about national security or intelligence, but rather focused on the President self aggrandizing in front of a memorial […]

A low-tech way to securely send mail the CIA way

A low-tech way to securely send mail the CIA way

With so much reliance on high-tech communication, this article offers you a low-tech alternative to sending mail the CIA way- Desiree Today, tech nerds are obsessed with high-tech encryption. But if you ever send snail mail, you might want to take a tip from America’s intelligence community. The CIA sends out letters that are secured […]

Gonorrhea disrupts CIA covert project

Gonorrhea disrupts CIA covert project

The CIA announced in a press release on January 17, 2017, that it had made available online more than 12 million pages of previously declassified CREST documents. CREST stands for “CIA Records Search Tool,” which is a stand-alone database located at the National Archives Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland. The 930,000 documents, per CNN, had […]

Ex-CIA director John Brennan: ‘Trump should be ashamed of himself’ over CIA remarks

Ex-CIA director John Brennan: ‘Trump should be ashamed of himself’ over CIA remarks

Former CIA Director John Brennan said President Donald Trump “should be ashamed” for using a speech at the agency’s headquarters to boast about himself, his former deputy chief of staff said Saturday. “Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of […]

Can the US intelligence community overcome its institutional roadblocks?

Can the US intelligence community overcome its institutional roadblocks?

Not too long ago, I contacted a friend who is still in the community. He and I keep in regular contact, so the fact that I was calling was not out of the ordinary. The reason for my call, however, was. “Hey man, I have someone that I believe your employer might be interested in.” […]

U.S. national security handover to Trump bumpy, officials say

U.S. national security handover to Trump bumpy, officials say

President-elect Donald Trump’s national security transition has been more chaotic than others in recent memory, with important positions unfilled and many of his people less able, or willing, to engage on substance, U.S. officials said. The uncertainties surrounding Trump’s personnel, policies, and rise to power have rattled many of America’s allies, including Japan, Germany and […]

CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online

CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online

About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the […]

Top 5 questions for the CIA on Russia collection in the Trump administration

Top 5 questions for the CIA on Russia collection in the Trump administration

By now, if you are at all keeping up with current events within national politics and/or the national security world, you are aware of the feud that has erupted between Donald J. Trump and the intelligence community.  Here is a primer, if you still need one. I should say a few things before we get […]

Retooling the intelligence community for a new world

Retooling the intelligence community for a new world

The news media is abuzz with reports of the ongoing public confrontation between President-elect Trump and members of the intelligence community, particularly outgoing CIA Director Brennan. Alarms are being sounded over the danger posed by an incoming president in confrontation with his own intelligence agencies, and who publicly questions the value of the intelligence they provide. […]

75th Ranger Regiment goes covert in Pakistan

75th Ranger Regiment goes covert in Pakistan

With dramatis personae that include the CIA, Delta Force, DEVGRU, the Intelligence Support Activity, Pakistani Commandos, the Taliban, and spies from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), this story has the makings of a future Brad Thor bestseller. The only difference is, this story happened over the course of an eight-month period for a very small […]

Here’s what it’s like to interview for the CIA, from people who have done it

Here’s what it’s like to interview for the CIA, from people who have done it

The Central Intelligence Agency is a well-known, yet highly-secretive branch of the intelligence community, but we know a little bit about how to get a job there thanks to Glassdoor. The job site where anyone can rate their workplace and give an inside look at how to apply and interview has a page just for the […]

Former CIA operations officer weighs in on expulsion of Russian diplomats

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 […]