U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks.
The U.S. The Department of Justice has disbanded a task force to combat interference from adversarial foreign governments in US politics.
The DOJ is also narrowing its enforcement of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
And all of that was before Signalgate, in which US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included in a group chat among top US national security officials in which secret war plans were shared.
Are we about to enter a golden age for Russian espionage and active measures in the United States?
On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with John Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Clandestine Service who is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center; and former U.S. State Department official Max Bergmann, who served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and is currently director of the Europe and Russia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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SHOW NOTES
The New York Times op-ed by Noah Shachtman, which was referenced in the podcast, can be accessed here.
The Substack article by Anton Shekhovtsov, “Russian Propaganda with a Spray Can:
The Kremlin’s false flag ops in Austria revealed,” which was referenced in the podcast, can be accessed here.
John Sipher’s recently published works can be accessed here, here, and here.
Max Bergmann’s recently published work can be accessed here.
The Power Vertical Newsletter on Substack can be accessed here. Recently published work by Brian Whitmore can be accessed here, here, and here. Please follow Brian Whitmore and The Power Vertical on Bluesky@powervertical.bsky.social