Sean Wiswesser is a former CIA Senior Operations Officer with 30 years of service in the foreign service, defense, and intelligence communities.
He was a Chief of Station and held many other leadership roles with the CIA and in joint duty across the U.S. intelligence community.
Sean’s been published extensively on the Ukraine War, Russian security, and intelligence/espionage issues, including his new book: Tradecraft, Tactics and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War (Naval Institute Press, 2026).
(All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official positions or views of the US Government. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying US Government authentication of information or endorsement of the author's views.)
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, there is a lesson from that terrible morning that America and its allies cannot afford to forget: deterrence fails...
There is something inherently counterintuitive about a U.S. intelligence chief secretly flying to Moscow to talk to the Russian intelligence services. At a time when the...
For a century, military planners and political leaders have believed that control of the skies could determine the outcome of wars – and perhaps even...
The drone discovered at Germany’s Leipzig Airport this past week should finally end any illusions in the West that Russia’s hybrid war campaign remains confined...
When a Russian missile strikes Kyiv, we recognize it as war, and one increasingly against civilians. When a Russian agent or their intelligence services burn a...
