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Welcome to SpyTalk, now entering its 15th year! Led by Jeff Stein, a talented team of experienced investigative journalists, writers, and experts is ready to give you an inside look at the national security landscape. Look out for our launch in mid-September. You might recognize Jeff from his years as the Spytalk columnist at Newsweek, as well as his previous roles at The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, where he was the founding editor of the notable CQ/Homeland Security. This time, Jeff has brought together a remarkable group of seasoned journalists, including Elaine Shannon, known as TIME magazine's “queen of drugs and thugs,” and Peter Eisner, a skilled investigative writer and former deputy foreign editor at The Post, among others.
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2 days ago |
spytalk.co | Jeff Stein
A former senior CIA officer who pleaded guilty Wednesday to working illegally as an agent for unidentified foreign clients came under suspicion years earlier as a security risk, reliable sources tell SpyTalk. Dale Britt Bendler, 68, of Miami, Fla., was suspended with pay during a European assignment between 2016 and 2019, a one time senior CIA colleague said on condition of anonymity to discuss such a sensitive issue.
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3 days ago |
spytalk.co | Jeff Stein |Jonathan Broder
A draft plan to close several American embassies and consulates across a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa has alarmed U.S. intelligence veterans with deep experience on the continent, one of whom called it “the greatest single threat to the United States and its closest allies in my lifetime.” “By ceding this continent to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and global terrorist organizations, the Trump Administration risks losing inroads that have kept the U.S. intelligence community abreast and...
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1 week ago |
spytalk.co | Jeff Stein |Michael Isikoff
We’re back with another edition of The SpyTalk Week in Review podcast. Jeff Stein and Michael Isikoff discuss the current state of national security, focusing on the Trump administration's impact on the intelligence community, Russia's ongoing influence in American politics, and recent developments regarding Venezuela and Iran.
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1 week ago |
spytalk.co | Michael Isikoff
As a national security reporter for Newsweek in the 1990’s, Doug Waller figured he was perfectly positioned to cultivate a top CIA official who had just left the agency. His quarry was John Waller, who had spent years in the agency’s clandestine service specializing in Middle East affairs and later served as the CIA’s inspector general. Doug Waller was convinced the two were distantly related and that the presumed family connection just might help him unlock a goldmine of intelligence secrets.
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1 week ago |
spytalk.co | Jeff Stein
How you feeling? I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember ever feeling so bludgeoned by events in America than the combined weight of Trump’s head-spinning rejection of every cardinal tenet of U.S. national security policies over the past three months. As longtime SpyTalk readers know, we've always tried to avoid partisan politics here. We’ve knocked Democrats from Obama’s astounding missteps in Syria to Biden’s godawful withdrawal from Afghanistan and plenty in-between.
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