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 ...

Rodney Faraon Rodney Faraon View Articles Partner & Chief Creative Officer, Martin+Crumpton Group Rodney Faraon is a former senior CIA China analyst, including two years on the President’s Daily ...

Gilman Louie is the co-founder, CEO, and Managing Partner at America’s Frontier Fund and a member of the board of directors at Maxar Corporation. Gilman is a member of the President’s Intelligence ...

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Ambassador Joseph DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate ...

Frank Archibald retired from the CIA in 2015 as the Director of the National Clandestine Service an assignment in which he led all of CIA’s operations worldwide. His 31 years of CIA service included ...

Paul Kolbe is former director of The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Kolbe also led BP’s Global Intelligence and Analysis team ...

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim, which explores the mind of Putin and his perspective on Ukraine.

Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She serves on the U.S. Secret Service’s Cyber Investigation Advisory ...