With Syrian rebels having taken control of Aleppo, there are questions about what is next for Syria and the many actors with stakes there.

Frank Montoya Jr. is a retired FBI special agent and senior executive with extensive experience in counterintelligence matters. In addition to running FBI field offices in Honolulu and Seattle in the ...

The South Korean President’s martial law declaration sparked middle-of-the-night protests and a dramatic reversal.

That was Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), speaking during a two-hour interview on the Shawn Ryan Show and Podcast that was taped in ...

After Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief invited experts from our network to offer advice ...

Prior to his appointment as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of ...

Cipher Brief Expert and former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank makes the serious case for procurement reform ...

Norman Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he ...

Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the ...

Former Director, The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center Paul Kolbe is former director of The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and ...

Rodney Faraon is a former senior CIA China analyst, including two years on the President’s Daily Briefing Staff for two administrations. He was also the founding director of Global Intelligence and ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...