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Westwester spent his CIA career as a 'denied area expert' in the Directorate of Operations, focusing on Russian intelligence as an adversary and recruiting/handling spies

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Speaker

Shawn Westwester

Evidence Quote

“I was known as a denied area expert...I was in our senior expert cadre in CIA in the Directorate of Operations...focused on the Russian intelligence services”

Source

Inside Russian Intelligence: CIA Insider on Putin’s Playbook, Ukraine & the Next War— The Cipher Brief
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:23:34 PM

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