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Taking Action To Generate More Data

Taking Action To Generate More Data

This is one in a series of Spy's Guide book reviews. For more, see spysguide.com/blog Michael V. Hayden, Playing To The Edge As boss of the National Security Agency during 9/11 and later boss of the CIA, Hayden managed two intelligence bureaucracies. At NSA, Hayden’s work was expected to be in the first two steps of the DADA sequence: Hayden’s job at NSA was to collect as much data as possible, maybe more than anyone else in the world. Then, the job was to analyze it. To tran

A Spy's Career Tied To History

A Spy's Career Tied To History

This is one in a series of Spy's Guide book reviews. For more, see spysguide.com/blog Jack Devine, Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story A spy’s career is tied to history. From the 1970s through mid-1990s, Jack Devine worked in the trenches of major historical moments. He was a young case officer in Chile during the Pinochet coup. He touched on the Iran-Contra Affair. He worked to supply Charlie Wilson’s War in Afghanistan. He rose through the ranks and became Acting DD

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