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.)
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...
Russia’s intelligence services are entering a more uncomfortable phase of the war. For years, success within the Kremlin’s security apparatus was measured less by objective reality...
Russia is no longer merely an authoritarian state. It is a security-service regime whose governing philosophy is coercion – at home through repression, and abroad...
