Aldrich Ames and the Enemy Within
I had a friend, a Soviet-East Europe Division case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency who served in Moscow in the 1980s. He was extremely well-suited to operations behind the Iron Curtain: He had...
Directorate of Operations
Terrorism Turns (Back) Toward the Jews?
The greatest threat might be from the West, not the Islamic world.
Op-eds
How the Left Views Langley
REVIEW: 'The CIA: An Imperial History’ by Hugh Wilford
Op-eds
Khamenei’s Brilliant Failure
His strategy against Israel and the United States was working—until Hamas attacked Israel.
Op-eds
Losing Georgia to Putin
The West sits idly by as the ruling party pushes the republic closer to Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Op-eds
When Iran Goes Nuclear
The Islamic Republic will even more aggressive toward Israel and improve its standing with Russia and China.
Op-eds
Israel Missed Its Moment
It might have had a chance to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions a few years ago, but the Middle East has changed.
Op-eds
Cloak and Swagger
REVIEW: ‘Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West’ by Calder Walton
Op-eds
The Women Burning Their Hijabs Want the Iranian Regime to Fall. Does Joe Biden?
The White House is still ardently seeking a nuclear deal that will enrich the men murdering women in the streets.
Op-eds
US must arm Ukraine now, before it’s too late
Excerpt Nearly 20 of our fellow experts and national security professionals — whose digital signatures appear at the end of this op-ed — agree: The war in Ukraine has reached a decisive moment and that...
Op-eds
Can the Intelligence Community Tell What’s Brewing in Afghanistan?
Excerpt Whenever the United States gets traumatized by the unexpected abroad, discussions inevitably start about the inadequacy of American intelligence collection and analysis. There is truth behind this...
Op-eds
The Challenge of Containing a Nuclear Iran
Barring a great surprise, the Islamic Republic will get its nuke. How will the U.S. respond?
Op-eds
Goodbye To All That
Biden may usher in a new era in which we won’t really have an Iran policy at all.
Op-eds
The intersectional CIA
When I first saw the “I am a cisgender millennial” recruitment video for the Central Intelligence Agency, I thought it was a spoof, an attempt to bring Monty Python to Langley. Then, I realized the...
Op-eds
Extremism and Fragile States
Episode 21
Foreign Podicy
Defining violent extremism down
Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...
Op-eds
The CIA, Post-Obama
When the new casts out the old, an incoming administration has the opportunity to review its predecessor’s approach to the Central Intelligence Agency. When this is done, the foc...
Op-eds
New FDD Report Provides In-Depth Analysis of Iranian Leaders Engaged in Nuclear Talks
Read full report here WASHINGTON – A new monograph released to...
Press Releases
CIA Bides its Time
The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...
Op-eds
Iran Ignores A Lucrative Deal Over Its Nuclear Activities
Why hasn’t Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, agreed to the offer the West put on the table in Vienna last month ...