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AFIO gained a new chapter covering North Carolina and South Carolina when the Carolinas Chapter held its inaugural meeting on February 6, 2026, at the historic Dunhill Hotel in Charlotte, NC. The chapter had been charted by the AFIO national office in December 2025. READ MORE
Charles Long, retired CIA Operations Officer, reviews The DGSE: A Concise History of France’s Foreign Intelligence Serviceby Damien Van Puyelde in this week's WIN, on your Member Account page and on the WIN Short-Form Book Reviews page. READ MORE
The Christopher Marlowe Film Project is the brainchild of AFIO member and longtime professional writer Francis Hamit. It is billed as "an Elizabethan film noir spy thriller based on real events.” A Kickstarter page has been set up with details about the film and the fundraising effort. READ MORE
In Memoriam
Dale E. Zeimer - Former CIA Senior Operations Officer
Dale E. Zeimer, 91, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and formerly of Dover and Dennison, Ohio, died at his home on Sunday, September 20, 2026. Read more
James Thompson - Senior NSA Cryptologist
James “Jim” Edward Thompson, born November 19, 1926, in Cumberland, Kentucky, passed peacefully on Friday, May 29, 2026, at his Charlestown Senior Living apartment in Catonsville, Maryland. Read more
Released to members on 22 Sep 2026
Run time: 41 minutes with several Q&A.
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, a former CIA Operations Officer, Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, and President Emeritus, AFIO.
Interview conducted 30 July 2026 with Sarah Valentine, PhD discussing her book Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb. Interview conducted by AFIO Chairman Everette Jordan, former senior DOD, Treasury, Army Officer.
"Decoding the Devil vividly demonstrates that, behind some of the greatest technological security innovations, there are masses of people whose rights were violated and whose contributions remain unrecognized." - "Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer.
“Decoding the Devil shatters the mythology of American intelligence. With relentless research and electric storytelling, Sarah Valentine restores the erased Black cryptologists who powered U.S. codebreaking from WWII through the Korean War. Urgent, revelatory, and impossible to ignore, Decoding the Devil unveils both the uncomfortable truths and the inspiring histories that form the foundation of our intelligence community.” - Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author
To view publicly available AFIO Now videos, please visit our YouTube page . To listen to the series as audio only, please visit our Podcast page. "AFIO Now" Interviews and Podcasts are sponsored by Northwest Financial Advisors.
Damien Van Puyvelde | Georgetown University Press | 1 April 2026
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Damien Van Puyvelde succinctly describes the history, key players and evolution of this flagship intelligence service and its role in French national security since World War 2. Van Puyvelde, an authoritative intelligence researcher and author of a growing number of noteworthy books and articles, offers his readers a carefully analyzed and objective study of the most essential elements of the French Directorate General for External Security (DGSE). This is the first comprehensive English-language…
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