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Bring Intelligence Experience Into the Room
Sean Wiswesser translates nearly three decades of national-security experience and years of Russia-focused research into clear, engaging discussions for professional and general audiences. Please see the MEDIA tab above for samples of Sean's previous lectures and talks at places like Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK, Army War College and elsewhere.
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Inside Russian Intelligence
How the SVR, GRU and FSB think and operate—their cultures, methods, strengths, weaknesses and place in Putin's system.
Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks
Surveillance, recruitment, double agents, deception, kompromat, sabotage, active measures and assassination.
Russia's Hybrid War
How Russia combines intelligence activity, sabotage, cyber operations, proxies and influence operations as instruments of state power.
The Intelligence War Behind Ukraine
Russian assumptions, institutional failures, wartime adaptation and what the conflict reveals about the future.
Intelligence Without the Mythology
What popular culture gets wrong about human intelligence, motivation, uncertainty, risk and relationships.
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Hear Sean discuss Russian intelligence, espionage, tradecraft and national security with leading public-affairs and defense organizations.