American Spies: Espionage against the US from the Cold War to the Present

On March 25, 2014, Michael J. Sulick, former Director of the U.S. National Clandestine Service and former Chief of CIA Counterintelligence discussed his new book "American Spies: Espionage against the United States from the Cold War to the Present" at The Institute of World Politics.
About the book
What's your secret?
American Spies presents the stunning histories of more than forty Americans who spied against their country during the past six decades. Michael Sulick, former head of the CIA's clandestine service, illustrates through these stories -- some familiar, others much less well known -- the common threads in the spy cases and the evolution of American attitudes toward espionage since the onset of the Cold War. After highlighting the accounts of many who have spied for traditional adversaries such as Russian and Chinese intelligence services, Sulick shows how spy hunters today confront a far broader spectrum of threats not only from hostile states but also substate groups, including those conducting cyberespionage.
Sulick reveals six fundamental elements of espionage in these stories: the motivations that drove them to spy; their access and the secrets they betrayed; their tradecraft, i.e., the techniques of concealing their espionage; their exposure; their punishment; and, finally, the damage they inflicted on America's national security.
The book is the sequel to Sulick's popular Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War. Together they serve as a basic introduction to understanding America's vulnerability to espionage, which has oscillated between peacetime complacency and wartime vigilance, and continues to be shaped by the inherent conflict between our nation's security needs and our commitment to the preservation of civil liberties.
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About the author
Michael J. Sulick is a retired intelligence operations officer who worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years. He served as chief of CIA counterintelligence from 2002-4 and as director of the National Clandestine Service from 2007-10, where he was responsible for supervising the agency's covert collection operations and coordinating the espionage activities of the US intelligence community.

[@michaellangmdl]

I really enjoyed this. He’s a great speaker. Maybe in future the audience members who have questions could be given a microphone? It was a little difficult to hear them. Fascinating and enjoyable. Thank you for publishing this and thank you to the speakers for their service!

[@zawminnaing9482]

What is the main attitude of counter spy on money or power of your goverment?Why dont think of global peace and developments?Why dont negociate between Cummnist and Democractic situation?

[@drannoc100]

To think possible to negotiate with communists is a fantasy because communists have firm belief that they will and have to win the western capitalism at all cost. - It’s like their delusion (fixed false belief) despite they caused so many disasters in their own countries.

[@zawminnaing9482]

Why dont you train on spies on mutual respect to other human investication machnism?

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[@dagann1]

To assume Snowden was a spy and violated the Espionage Act is, in my opinion, an error in judgment. If anything, Snowden alerted the public of criminal behavior and crimes by the government. Therefore, the worst that can be said when discussing Snowden and his motives is he is a whistleblower. Maybe a hero depending on a person's perspective. Now, if he passed that information to a foreign power under contract or for other reasons where he benefited from doing so, then, yes. He would be guilty of espionage and subject to the penalties under the Law. Or, that was the law back in the day. Now, in a post- 9-11 situation, the Law may have been changed due to the Patriot Act.

[@titianmom]

Snowden is what I call a stupid spy, ala Mr. Bean. He thinks he's being noble, but I agree with Sulick that both the Chinese and the Russians now have all the information that Snowden had downloaded. Russians are so tickled they kept him, lol. Snowden is just a narcissist who wanted to feel special.

[@kbabioch]

@@titianmom Based on Snowden's remarks the information could not have been accessed by others due to operational measures he arranged for (encryption, etc.).

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