Christopher Burgess

United States

Speaker, Writer, Advisor and Contributor at Freelance

30+yrs w/CIA🕵️‍♂️ | ✍️ Burgess Writing: NatSec/Espionage/Insider/Cyber and more | Co-Author Book 📕 Secrets Stolen Fortunes Lost

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Articles

The Trump administration made an unprecedented security mistake - you can avoid doing the same

4 weeks ago | csoonline.com | Christopher Burgess

The high-ranking official who included someone without clearance in a classified discussion may not immediately face consequences, but here’s how to avoid finding yourself in a similar situation.
What the Signal Chat Incident Reveals About Insider Risk

1 month ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

Recent news demonstrates the well-known fact among those managing insider risk programs, which is that a careless employee actions can potentially escalate into a dangerous situation. Jeffery Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, shared how he was accidentally added to a Signal (commercial secure communications application) “Principles Group” to discuss the active battle plans with respect to the March 15 U.S. bombings in Yemen.
Holidaymaker 'biting and spitting' on easyJet flight 'hadn't eaten all day'

2 months ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Rory Cassidy |Amy Walker |Christopher Burgess

A holidaymaker hauled off a passenger jet after a 30-minute-long spitting and biting rampage hurled racist abuse at police officers arresting him - kicking off so badly cops has to put a spit hood on him. Christopher Burgess lost the plot as he returned from a holiday in Alicante and had to be restrained by other passengers while the plane was still in the sky.
China’s Inside Man: DOJ Arrests Ex-Fed Official for Leaking U.S. Economic Secrets

2 months ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

The Department of Justice announced the arrest of John Harold Rogers, 63, a former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), who is charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage and making false statements. The charges stem from his alleged involvement in stealing confidential Federal Reserve trade secrets to benefit the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
CIA Offers Workforce Buyout and Employee Identification to White House

2 months ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

The CIA’s recent buyout initiative has raised concerns, not only about workforce reductions but also about potential counterintelligence risks. The agency has offered buyouts to employees across all levels as part of a broader effort to realign with national security objectives. Employees who accept the buyout will receive about eight months’ salary and benefits in exchange for voluntarily leaving the agency.
DeepSeek is a Mega Data Mining Opportunity for China

2 months ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

The Chinese AI engine DeepSeek has hit prime time, quickly vaulting to the number one downloaded application in the Apple Store, as their open-source model and use of context caching has caused a bit of an earthquake among the AI engine offerings with their efficiency. China is in the AI gameThe company is in Hangzhou, China. Its founder Liang Wenfeng attended Zhejiang University. Reading what the technologists have to say it’s clear: DeepSeek took a new approach to artificial intelligence (AI).
Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty for Leaking Classified U.S. and Israeli Intelligence on Iran

Jan 24, 2025 | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

Update: Former CIA analyst Asif William Rahman, an employee of the CIA since 2016, pled guilty to the unauthorized sharing of classified information. Rahman held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Special Compartmented Information (SCI) at the time he made his fateful decision. The Department of Justice shares, “According to court documents, on Oct.
Espionage Uncovered: U.S. Embassy Security Guard Linked to Russia and Iran

Nov 22, 2024 | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

In Oslo, Norway on November 20, a security guard at the U.S. Embassy was arrested on suspicion of espionage. John Christian Elden, the unidentified man’s attorney said that his client had been in touch with both Russian and Iranian intelligence officers.
Undersea Cable Sabotage? China and Russia in the Baltic Sea Battlefield

Nov 20, 2024 | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

From time to time over the past 20 years we have heard of undersea cable disruption when a ship drags an anchor and catches a cable, pipeline and other inter-country/continental infrastructure is disrupted. In 2017, retired U.S. .S.
DOJ Indicts CIA Officer for Leaking Classified U.S. and Israeli Intelligence on Iran

Nov 13, 2024 | news.clearancejobs.com | Christopher Burgess

The Department of Justice filed an indictment against Asif William Rahman, a CIA officer in Cambodia (according to numerous media outlets) on two felony counts for retention and transmission of national defense information. Rahman has been identified as the individual behind the recent leak of highly sensitive and classified information acquired by the U.S. Intelligence Community which contained the Israeli plans and intentions with respect to counterattacking Iran.