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Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff, Seth Hettena, Yossi Melman, Toby Harnden, Karen J. Greenberg, Mark StoutIntelligence for Thinking People
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Founding editor SpyTalk.co. Longtime natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via Signal 202-812-3034, or [email protected] 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.
Veteran national security reporter covering intelligence and special operations. Send me tips securely on Signal @seth_hettena.11 or via email, shettena (at) protonmail.com. (Profile photo by Greg Bull)
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
Toby Harnden’s next book, The 39: Uncovering the CIA's Secret Heroes, about the undisclosed recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the Agency's equivalent of the Medal of Honor, will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 23, 2027.
Future Security Fellow, New America. Author of "Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump" and "Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State."
Dr. Mark Stout is an intelligence historian and a former US intelligence officer. He was the founding president of the North American Society for Intelligence History.
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