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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 22 Sep 2025
Run time: 23 minutes and includes several Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer, and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
Interview of Tuesday, 15 July 2025 of Mark M Lowenthal PhD, Former Dep Asst Sec State for Intelligence, on his new book, Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States Intelligence, 1753-2023 [Yale Univ Press, May 2025].
MARK LOWENTHAL served in several senior intelligence positions. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence; staff director of the House Intelligence Committee; Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production; and Vice Chair for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Upon retiring from government service in 2005, Dr. Lowenthal established the Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC, which provides a range of courses on national security issues to government agencies and private sector firms. He is now President Emeritus of the Academy. Dr. Lowenthal has taught at the graduate school level for many years. He was on the faculty at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, 1994-2008; the Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2021; Sciences Po, Paris, 2015-2023; and now the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, since 2021. Dr. Lowenthal has written extensively on intelligence and related issues, including seven books and dozens of articles. His book, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its 9th edition, has become the standard college and graduate school textbook on this topic. In 1988, Dr. Lowenthal was Grand Champion on Jeopardy!, the television quiz show.
Released to members on 16 Sep 2025
Run time: 15 minutes with several Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer, and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
Interview of Tuesday, 5 Aug 2025 with Barry Broman, author, producer, photographer. Former Marine, CIA Clandestine Service Officer, Station Chief, Diplomat, on his newest historical novel: The Spy from Sukhumvit Road. This latest historical novel continues the story from Broman’s first novel, The Spy from Place Saint-Sulpice. Protagonist CIA Case Officer Richard “Rick” Blayne returns to Thailand to help support an anti-communist insurgency in Cambodia. Blayne's activities mirror the life of Barry Broman who spent time in Asia as an AP photographer, later as a Marine, and then with the CIA. Anyone who lived in the fetid jungles of Vietnam and stalked the dark alleys of Phnom Penh will be transported back.
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