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Michael Isikoff

Washington, D.C.

Contributing Editor at SpyTalk

Journalist, author, podcaster

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  • Chinese Students Do Pose Security Threat, Former Top CIA Counterspy Says

    1 week ago | spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff

    In the fall of 2021, the CIA sent a highly unusual top secret cable to its officers around the globe. The agency had been plagued by compromises and sloppy tradecraft, resulting in serious setbacks in some overseas missions, the cable explained.

  • Former Trump CIA Director’s ‘Top Secret’ Memo-for Campaign Cash

    2 weeks ago | spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff

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  • Former Trump CIA Director’s ‘Secret’ Memo-for Campaign Cash

    2 weeks ago | spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff

    It was an email guaranteed to grab my attention. “A former CIA Director needs you to read this,” read the subject line. I hastily clicked it open, of course, and discovered, much to my surprise, I was being given “exclusive access” to a “secret memo.” A reporter’s dream,  even if, as I was instructed, all this was being shared on a “strictly off the record” basis. Alas, the memo didn’t contain any national security secrets.

  • Top House Intel Dem predicts Qatari plane gift to Trump is “not gonna fly”

    3 weeks ago | spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff

    A key House Democrat, voicing mounting frustrations  within the U.S. intelligence community, decried President Trump’s plans to accept a $400 million jumbo jet from Qatar  as a  potential counter-intelligence nightmare and warned that the recent firing of two top officials was tantamount to “cutting the heart” out of professional officers and analysts. “Without any hesitation from a counterintelligence standpoint, from a strategic standpoint, this is a terrible, terrible idea, right?” said Rep.

  • Gabbard & Trump Lies on Venezuela Gang Exposed by Top Intelligence Report

    1 month ago | spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff

    A newly declassified U.S. intelligence memo directly contradicts public comments by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about supposed links between the Venezuelan government and the Tren de Aragua criminal gang while undercutting  positions the Trump administration has repeatedly taken in the courts to justify its mass deportation of gang members.

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Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff @Isikoff
23 May 25

Read all about it: Ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo sends me a "top secret" memo, strictly off the record, of course. https://t.co/5ZCoOJUCPz

Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff @Isikoff
17 May 25

Sobering comments from @jahimes when @SpyTalker & I ask about the Tapper book. "Why was it verbotten inside the WH to say, this guy shouldn't run?" And when Harris refused to distance herself from any Biden policies, "it made her look like an idiot." https://t.co/PquKsvoHLt

Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff @Isikoff
16 May 25

.@jahimes, ranking D on House intel, tells @talk_spy the Qatari plane wd have to be dismantled "nail by nail, screw by screw" to search for bugs. "Once the security people really start thinking about it, it's not gonna fly." https://t.co/dQdaXlX8fa