Jeff Stein

Veteran natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via text at Signal 202-812-3034, email via spytalk@me.com and Twitter @talk_spy and @spytalker

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Report: 'Adversary' Responsible for Havana Syndrome Attacks

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A sign stands outside the National Security Agency campus on Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)

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An internal U.S. intelligence messaging system became a "dumpster fire" of hate speech during the Trump administration, an...

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