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What Is the Impact of the CIA Report?
What Is the Impact of the CIA Report?, Jack Devine, Karen J. Greenberg, and Magnus Ranstorp answer
...The Wall Street Journal reviews Good Hunting by Jack Devine
The Wall Street Journal reviews Good Hunting by Jack Devine, June 10, 2014
...Jack Devine on What Really Happened in Chile in Foreign Affairs
Jack Devine on What Really Happened in Chile in Foreign Affairs, July 2014
...10 Questions with Jack Devine
10 Questions with Jack Devine in TIME, June 5, 2014
...Jack Devine’s Good Hunting reviewed in the June 2nd issue of The Boston Globe.
Jack Devine’s Good Hunting reviewed in the June 2nd issue of The Boston Globe.
...Jack Devine on how to address Putin and an expansionist Russia
Jack Devine on how to address Putin and an expansionist Russia in The Seattle Times, May 31, 2014: “Guest: Vladimir Putin may have overplayed his hand in Ukraine.”
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The Oracle of Langley Returns: Jack Devine on Iran, Ukraine and the AI Arms Race
Former CIA acting director Jack Devine is back on Risk & Return, six months after he called the Iran conflict almost move for move. This week he tells Bob Sloan and Charlie Gasparino why there is still no deal on the table, why Tehran thinks it has the upper hand heading into the midterms, and...
‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
Why would the Russians cross this red line? Jack Devine, a former associate director of operations at the CIA, said that the Kremlin had perhaps become blase about the potential repercussions – but that it could prove to be a misstep.
...Jack Devine: The Spymaster Who Goes to Mass
Speaking about life after the Central Intelligence Agency, Jack Devine became nostalgic. “I’m having a lot of fun,” he said, “but I’m not allowed to overthrow governments.” Mr. Devine, 73, who chronicles his 32 years at the C.I.A. in the memoir “Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story,” had a role in the Iran-contra affair, the...
Trump deploying US military against drug cartels will drag us into a forever war | Opinion
Eliminating the narcotics threat to our nation is a rightful priority for the Trump administration, but using U.S. troops to prosecute the drug war is the wrong tact and with far-reaching consequences. This war will not end in a ceasefire. There will be no summits or working-level negotiations. It’s an insurgency, and the U.S. military must...
I was in the CIA. Here’s how helping Myanmar can pay off for US against China. | Opinion
The 7.7 earthquake that has killed thousands in Myanmar and Thailand has exacerbated vulnerabilities and resulted in a complex humanitarian crisis and an urgent need for international aid to provide emergency relief services. This natural disaster has also evoked debate on the value of international assistance, soft power, as a tool of foreign policy. The U.S.-led Marshall Plan in post-World War...