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Are you perpetually underestimated? Disrespected? Or even harassed? While working as an intelligence officer at the CIA, I experienced significant challenges as a female working in a man’s world. [...]

What We Discuss with Jordan Harbinger: Is working undercover for the CIA as exciting as it looks in the movies? How does an isolated Florida girl grow up to be a CIA operative in the Arab world? [...]

She smiles a lot.  (Happy people aren’t serious people.) She’s so friendly.  (She’s too nice to be a counterterrorism expert. She probably doesn’t know very much.)  She’s easy to [...]

We live in an instant society where we want—what we want—now. We have a decreasing amount of patience to build our expertise or work towards our objectives. Modern American culture gives us the [...]

I get asked all kinds of questions regarding my (former) life in the CIA. Because the cloak of secrecy hides our activities from the general public, there are numerous misconceptions about the [...]

Congratulations, Ms. Haspel, on your confirmation as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Just like past directors, you have an incredible mission—to lead one of the world’s pre-eminent [...]

You’ve done it. You’ve survived college: you mastered new exam formats, obtained all necessary credits and walked the plank in graduation gown and mortarboard.   Now what?   What lies [...]