Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOutgoing Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Reflects on today's Very Real Terrorist Threat
Christine Abizaid, who has served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) for the past three years, sits down with State Secrets P…
2 years ago
TRM Labs and National Security: A View from Inside an Early Stage, Venture-Backed Startup
In this sponsored episode of the State Secrets podcast, host Suzanne Kelly talks with Sujit Raman, Chief Legal Officer at TRM Labs about how the priv…
2 years ago
At NATO Summit, Putin's Greatest Weapon is still a Scare Tactic
Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges (Ret.) Former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Europe, talks to State Secrets host Suzanne Kelly about this week's NATO Summit…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Technology Impacts U.S. Intelligence
When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt launched the bipartisan Special Competitive Studies Project – known as SCSP - in 2021, he did it with the intenti…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe
In this episode of the State Secrets podcast, we're talking with Cipher Brief Expert, Nick Fishwick, a former senior member of the British Foreign Of…
2 years, 1 month ago
High Command with Retired General Frank McKenzie
In this episode of State Secrets, we're talking with Cipher Brief Expert, retired General Frank McKenzie. General McKenzie served for forty-two years…
2 years, 1 month ago
Around The World With Former CIA Officer Edward Bogan
Former Senior CIA Officer Ed Bogan spent a decades-long career at CIA focused on the most urgent issues of our time ranging from counterterrorism to …
2 years, 2 months ago
Is Russia Attacking U.S. Government Employees Using High-Energy Weapons?
"Havana Syndrome" - reported by hundreds of U.S. officials, diplomats, CIA Officers, FBI Agents and White House staff - as well as some members of th…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ukraine's Bright Hope To Build Back Stronger
The Cipher Brief made its first reporting trip to Ukraine in February of 2022. That's when we first met Tymofiy Mylovanov, the President of the Kyi…
2 years, 4 months ago
From Special Operations to the CIA: Assessing the Complexity of the Global Environment
Dave Pitts was the CIA's last man on the ground in Afghanistan as U.S. troops pulled out of the country in 2021. Even though he began his career as a…
2 years, 4 months ago