CIA's greatest weapon throughout the years, cold hard cash.
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Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century is #3 on the New York Times bestseller list! A new newsletter: CODEWORD, soon available to all who follow. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
CIA's greatest weapon throughout the years, cold hard cash.
18.11.2025 03:18 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1CIA cannot be a global intel service. It would need 10x the people, language skills, country knowledge it has. It relies on liaison with 60+ foreign services, some in nations decidedly not allies. And liasion with NATO nations is crumbling -- openly. It's all about trust. And trust has been broken.
18.11.2025 00:54 β π 62 π 11 π¬ 4 π 1Thanks for reading!
17.11.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And now we are ruled by a thousand katherine harrises
17.11.2025 01:24 β π 19 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This isn't proof that the Kremlin had a unique source of kompromat on Trump, but it's shall we say highly suggestive.
12.11.2025 22:35 β π 31 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0Do your part. I'll do mine. www.falloffreedom.com
12.11.2025 22:15 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0No one knows when they will rule but seems clear that Trump will lose, given the way oral arguments have gone.
05.11.2025 17:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tuesday's vote and today's SCOTUS blowout against tariffs might, just might, show that the wheels are starting to come off the Trump juggernaught. We live in hope.
05.11.2025 17:08 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Can't wait for our Wednesday, Nov 19, discussion with @tim-weiner.bsky.social about his super new book, "The Mission." This is going to be good! @lucatrenta.bsky.social @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social .
03.11.2025 17:04 β π 15 π 8 π¬ 0 π 3The bunker is more vulnerable to penetration now and will be as long as the new palace is under construction. Another counterintelligence nightmare created by Trump in what Bill Burns calls the "strategic self-immolation" of the US national securty and intelligence architecture erected since 1945.
24.10.2025 22:35 β π 376 π 118 π¬ 18 π 15We'll start at 2:30, done before 4 pm Friday.
24.09.2025 22:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:
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Can't cancel this, Mr. President!
19.09.2025 17:49 β π 24 π 13 π¬ 3 π 0Tickets are going fast for the Wit Literary Festival -- with the legendary CIA officer Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler, the great author and journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff, and yours truly -- Friday 9/26 in Lenox, MA. Pick up a pair right here!
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I'm off on a book tour! If you can't join, please buy THE MISSION right here. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester VT, 9/20. NextStage, Putney VT 9/21. WiT Festival, Lenox MA, 9/25, Thalia Bookstore, Hamburg, Germany, 10/1, American Library, Paris, France, 10/7. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
19.09.2025 17:18 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 2 π 1Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.
19.09.2025 14:54 β π 353 π 87 π¬ 18 π 1Excellent interview on the crisis at CIA.
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In which Trump is indicted in the court of history.
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When future historians chronicle the Second Civil War, they may see this story as a harbinger of what was to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
12.09.2025 10:02 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0People of Montana! I'll be keynoting the Free Press Fest on September 16, followed by a talk about the state of the nation with former Senator John Tester, at Montana State in Bozeman. Be there or be square!
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CODEWORD is my new newsletter on the continuing crisis in American intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free. Here are the first six issues:
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Highly recommend.
08.09.2025 12:10 β π 17 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0The president is a war criminal. Read all about it in CODEWORD, my new newsletter. Subscribe! It's free.
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Not to mention everything about inteligence, foreign policy, and national security.
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