Douglas London

Guest Author

Douglas London (@douglaslondon5) is the author of “The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence.” He teaches intelligence studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute. London served in the CIA’s Clandestine Service for more than 34 years, mostly in the Middle East, South and Central Asia and Africa, including three assignments as a Chief of Station and as the CIA’s Counterterrorism Chief for South and Southwest Asia. He is also on LinkedIn.

Articles by this author:

The Value and Costs of Intelligence Diplomacy: CIA Director Burns in the Spotlight

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Jul 12th, 2024

Beating Putin’s Game of Nuclear Chicken

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Mar 21st, 2024

How Does Putin’s Response to Prigozhin’s Mutiny Change the Threat from Russia?

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Jul 5th, 2023

Rep. Jordan’s Dangerous New Panel is Nothing Like the Church Committee

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Jan 27th, 2023

Addressing Putin’s Nuclear Threat: Thinking Like the Cold War KGB Officer That He Was

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Oct 18th, 2022

Terrorism Might Be the Least of Our Problems a Year After America’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Aug 29th, 2022

US Democracy’s Survival Requires a More Powerful Response to January 6th

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Jul 15th, 2022

Defectors Provide Immediate Gratification, But Spies Change History

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Jun 7th, 2022

The Overhyping of Over the Horizon

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Oct 13th, 2021

CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse

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Aug 18th, 2021

What We Can Expect in Afghanistan from US Intelligence Once US Troops Are Gone

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Jul 1st, 2021

9/11’s Long Shadow: What’s at Stake in Afghanistan

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Sep 11th, 2020

The CIA’s Long and Winding Road to Diversity

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Jul 1st, 2020

The Intelligence Community, Transparency, and Today’s Threats To American Security

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Jun 12th, 2020

Peace in Afghanistan: Showmanship over Substance

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Mar 11th, 2020

The CIA in the Age of Trump

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Feb 10th, 2020

The President, His Relationship with Intelligence, and the Soleimani Strike

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Jan 15th, 2020