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...
Iron Curtain
Covert Action Cover to Cover
REVIEW: ‘The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature’ by Charlie English
Op-eds
Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s
Memos
Europe Must Take the Lead
By cutting funds to US media initiatives, the Trump administration is surrendering to Russia in the information war that began with Radio Free Europe 75 years ago.
Op-eds
The West should tear down Putin’s new digital Iron Curtain
The Kremlin is paranoid, passing some of the most repressive laws in its history. This gives us ample opportunity for subversion
Op-eds
Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023
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Remarks
Cloak and Swagger
REVIEW: ‘Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West’ by Calder Walton
Op-eds
Let’s use jazz to push back against Russia — it once worked before!
I like to joke that I moved to the United States from my homeland of Serbia because of American “psychological warfare.” But it wasn’t shadowy CIA operations that won my “heart and mind.” It...
Op-eds
Israel Needs to Speak Out and Hold Putin Accountable for His Crimes and Lies
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his “special military operation” aims to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, portraying his troops as freeing ethnic Russians from a fascistic regime in Kyiv. Yet despite...
Op-eds
Putin Can’t Be Allowed to Re-Divide Europe
Moscow’s latest treaty proposals are just another attempt to usurp the sovereignty of its neighbors.
Op-eds
Russia’s Power Games Extend to the Orthodox Church
Pushing back against Russia’s multipronged assault on the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which includes Putin and Erdogan’s coordinated pressure on an institution they see as posing a threat to their respective illiberal projects, requires devising and implementing a concerted transatlantic strategy.
Op-eds
Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival
It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects.
Op-eds
Iranian Laborers Need Our Help
With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...
Op-eds
Big Takeaways from the Biden-Sanders Debate
Our experts weigh in on the first head-to-head debate between the two main remaining Democratic contenders.
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
Op-eds
Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall
Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo...
Op-eds
How the West Can Use the Iran Deal to Foster Regime Change
Since the comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program was reached, technical aspects of the agreement have been discussed, but a crucially unremarked-upon topic deserves significan...
Op-eds
Russian Riddle
“A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” is how Winston Churchill famously described Russia in 1939. Churchill less famously added: “But perhaps there is a key. That k...
Op-eds
Liberate ‘Zones of Electronic Repression’!
Islamists shouldn’t be allowed to use Western technology to crush dissent.
Op-eds
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’
In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...