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The AFIO Now series offers the association’s members and the public prerecorded interviews and presentations that feature intelligence experts, historians and officers from the U.S. intelligence community. Content includes historical reviews and analyses of past and current domestic and global events, career insight, intelligence related author and national security reporter interviews.
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Released to members on 28 Apr 2026
Run time: 33 minutes with several Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, a former CIA Operations Officer, Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, and President Emeritus, AFIO.
Interview of 25 March 2026 of Sean M Wiswesser, former CIA Operations Officer, on his latest book, "Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War". Co-hosted with Paul Hollingsworth PhD, former Senior CIA Officer and Analyst, they discuss the covert world of Russian espionage and how the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) - the SVR, GRU, and FSB, including their use of double agents, surveillance, and “street work,” honeytraps, sabotage, active measures, assassinations - operate across the globe including the tactics, tradecraft, and mindset of the RIS. And the RIS roles in the Russo-Ukraine War.
Check out the Events section on the member home page for information about upcoming book events at the Spy Museum (April 30) and the Institute of World Politics (May 4).
Released to members on 12 May 2026
Run time: 56 minutes and includes many Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, a former CIA Operations Officer, Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, and President Emeritus, AFIO.
Interview of 24 April 2026 of Lorraine Cosgrove, former CIA, on her book, Still Living It Up!: Housemothers, Spies, and Soulmates. Lorraine's life at the Agency as one of the earliest women employees from the time she arrived there and her many outside - and inside - adventures throughout her life is discussed. Hiding liquor in the car under her seat at the German checkpoint…five polygraphs…traveling the world…marrying the love of her life…and so much more… This is how she has been “Living It Up” and at 97, she's not done yet. This is the life story of M. Lorraine Papineau Cosgrove – one of the early women at CIA. Her story is fascinating, as are many untold stories about great women from the CIA. She started at the Agency as a very young woman in 1949. The book recounts her life at the Agency as well as how she arrived there.
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"AFIO Now" Interviews and Podcasts are sponsored by Northwest Financial Advisors. Read the Press Release on this new Joint Arrangement.