Zach Dorfman
@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House. It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Years ago I had lunch with an Irish gent who was telling me about his time in 14th intel co. Apparently it actually started as an early SIGINT program that operated under the cover of a laundry company that would drive around delivering clean clothes while the electronics were packed in the roof.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 6d agoThe Shadow War: Inside story of deadly SAS conflict with IRA revealed for the first time
NEW, from the @washingtonpost.com: A previously-suppressed novel from a former deep-cover CIA officer skewers the agency—with many true-life details smuggled in under the guise of fiction. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Ex-CIA officer’s novel alleges grave dysfunction in deep-cover operations
Twelve years after the Central Intelligence Agency initially rejected its publication, a scathing book skewers a top-secret spying program.
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Seriously so proud and psyched for my friend @wylienewmark.bsky.social. Congratulations! Richly deserved
Horkos@wylienewmark.bsky.social · 3w agothey don’t realize that studies in intelligence has lauded a poaster
The NSA is about to undergo its biggest internal institutional shake-up in at least a decade, my @washingtonpost.com colleagues and I report: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
National Security Agency launches historic restructuring
Gen. Joshua M. Rudd is retooling the massive spy agency to focus on priorities including AI, China and cybersecurity.
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folks..,.,he's done it again
Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2mo agoThrilled to announce that I’m joining the extraordinary national security team at the @washingtonpost.com, helping out as @ellenwapo.bsky.social is at her Harvard fellowship. I’ll be reporting—big shocker—on the intelligence community. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at zsd.19.
Espionage diplomacy is a funny thing. The CIA director reportedly makes a request—don’t share intel with the Iranians—to the SVR director that he would never agree to; the SVR director denies Russia is sharing intel with Iran (of course a liaison channel is open). A merry-go-round of deception.
Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2mo agoThrilled to announce that I’m joining the extraordinary national security team at the @washingtonpost.com, helping out as @ellenwapo.bsky.social is at her Harvard fellowship. I’ll be reporting—big shocker—on the intelligence community. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at zsd.19.
Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2mo agoThrilled to announce that I’m joining the extraordinary national security team at the @washingtonpost.com, helping out as @ellenwapo.bsky.social is at her Harvard fellowship. I’ll be reporting—big shocker—on the intelligence community. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at zsd.19.
Thrilled to announce that I’m joining the extraordinary national security team at the @washingtonpost.com, helping out as @ellenwapo.bsky.social is at her Harvard fellowship. I’ll be reporting—big shocker—on the intelligence community. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at zsd.19.
"Lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts desperately needs the major renovation ordered by President Trump and raised the specter that it would need to be 'taken down' if those plans are blocked."
Trump Lawyers Warn That Kennedy Center Might Need Demolition if Not Fixed
In a court filing about honoring President Trump on the facade, the administration said that without a proper renovation the building might need to be “taken down.”
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Some of that was the OSS boys learning the hard way that they couldn't do Jedburgh style ops in East Asia.
Something I’ve been thinking about over the last few days is how CIA was created to conduct intelligence-gathering and covert action against the Soviets and their proxies and then almost immediately was sucked into a paramilitary quagmire against China on the Korean peninsula.
"Keep writing your fiction books; you are very good at making stuff up." -CSM (ret.) Rick Merritt, President of the Ranger Regiment Association. The Most Dangerous Man, currently available on Amazon and wherever books are sold. www.amazon.com/Most-Dangero...
Trump told the Supreme Court this month that he must build his ballroom so he'll have a secure space in case of attack. But he already has one, former officials say — a secret bunker under the White House. (No, not the one under the East Wing.) Our exclusive tonight at @washingtonpost.com.
Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
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