Newt’s World – Episode 229: Jack Devine on Spymaster’s Prism

By Newt Gingrich

The legendary former spymaster, Jack Devine, details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security.  Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency.  Listen to why Devine says we are already in a second Cold War with the Russians.


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Jack Devine is a founding partner and president of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research, and business problem-solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Mr. Devine served as both acting director and associate director of the CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993 to 1995. He served as chief of the Latin American Division from 1992 to 1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America. He headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center from 1990 to 1992 and the CIA’s Afghan Task Force from 1985 to 1987, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment. He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards.


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In SPYMASTER’S PRISM the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security. Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency. He uses his gimlet-eyed view to walk us through the fascinating spy cases and covert action activities of Russia, not only through the Cold War past but up to and including its interference in the Trump era. Devine also looks over the horizon to see what lies ahead in this struggle and provides prescriptions for the future. Based on personal experience and exhaustive research, Devine builds a vivid and complex mosaic that illustrates how Russia’s intelligence activities have continued uninterrupted throughout modern history, using fundamentally identical policies and techniques to undermine our democracy. He shows in stark terms how intelligence has been modernized and weaponized through the power of the cyber world.