SpyTalk
Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff, Peter Eisner, Jonathan Broder, Henry Allen, John Dinges, Yossi Melman, Toby HarndenIntelligence for Thinking People
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A Thrilling Wartime Spy Story Finally Gets Its Due
“Operation Sparrow” revives the story of three brave American agents on an audacious deception mission in World War II Hungary
On Mar. 15, 1944, less than three months before D-Day, three OSS operatives dropped into Nazi-aligned Hungary on...
Netanyahu Avoids Responsibility for FlyDubai Security Failures
Hamam al-Hammami’s selfie on his now-deleted LinkedIn page
What could have become the greatest security disaster in Israeli aviation history—the crash of a hijacked FlyDubai aircraft on Israel in a manner reminiscent of 9/11—was only narro...
New in SpyWeek: Terror Threat Triggers Emergency B-1 Evacuation from UK Base
B-1 Lancer in UK. (Photo Copyright © Chris Lofting PlaneSpotters.net)
Red Alert: The U.S. scrambled to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from a U.K. base “after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the inst...
Kash Patel Has Gotta Go
The ShinyHunters cybertheft of FBI personnel files should be the last straw
Imagine you were an undercover FBI agent in a Mexican warehouse with Russian gangsters last week when your phone buzzed with this headline: “Hackers Say They Have...
New in SpyWeek: Putin Messing with US Elections, Upping Hybrid War in Europe as Criminal Hackers Ransack FBI Files
Also: Netanyahu buries advance warning of Hamas raid, US Army readies Cuba action, Gershkovich’s spy story, Havana Syndrome, Trump’s “diplotainment” of Xi Jinping
Mossad’s Revenge: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long scapego...
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Founding editor of SpyTalk. Longtime natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via Signal 202-812-3034, or spytalk at me dot com and Twitter, @talk_spy and @spytalker.
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has reported for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News. He is now a contributing editor to SpyTalk.
Peter Eisner a, contributing editor to SpyTalk, is an award-winning reporter and author, formerly at The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press.
A veteran reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, Broder writes about defense and foreign policy from Washington.
Marine in Vietnam, Washington Post, critic and feature writer, Pulitzer Prize, novelist, poet, artist
Long time inland lake sailor. Favorite all time boat is the C Skow on Lake Okoboji.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
Author posting about espionage and writing. My book, "The 39: Uncovering the CIA's Secret Heroes" (Simon & Schuster), is released on March 23, 2027, and tells the amazing, undisclosed stories of the recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross.
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