NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former CIA operative John Sipher about Russian President Vladimir Putin's grip on power after the Wagner Group's aborted mutiny. The short mutiny by the Wagner mercenary ...

A former CIA officer has called for Ukraine's Western allies to provide the war-torn country with more military support in the ongoing conflict, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "weak ...

John Sipher is an international expert on all things espionage, particularly on the topic of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. He also is a Cortland native with ties to SUNY Cortland.

Sipher worked for the CIA’s clandestine service for 28 years. He is now a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment. Defectors have been warning the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former CIA operative John Sipher about Russian President Vladimir Putin's grip on power after the Wagner Group's... There's instability in Russia's military leadership.