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Summer internship opportunities for students interested in employment with the CIA opened up today, December 15, 2016. The applications for the Directorate of Operations Undergraduate Internship Program, which caters to freshman only, are now available.

ISP Brumley Next Gen Fellow Michael Gibbs recently reviewed Oleg Khlevniuk’s Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, 2016) for the Lawfare Blog.

ISP Director Steve Slick and William Inboden, Clements Center Executive Director, were recently interviewed on the UT Austin Student Government’s Podcast “Politics by the Horns” about the role the University plays in studying and shaping national security and intelligence policies.

In a November 4 essay posted on Foreign Policy’s “Shadow Government” site, Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick proposed that future presidents curtail the practice of offering pre-election intelligence briefings to the major party candidates.

Glenn Gerstell, the General Counsel of the National Security Agency (NSA), visited the University of Texas at Austin last week to discuss his experiences leading NSA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and to share insights on legal issues currently confronting the U.S. Intelligence Community.

During the 2017 spring semester, the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint initiative of the Strauss and Clements Centers, and the LBJ School will offer undergraduates the opportunity to learn about US intelligence and its role in national security from a uniquely qualified ensemble of senior intelligence and policy practitioners, distinguished…

Steve Slick recently reviewed Solomon’s The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East (Random House, 2016) for the Lawfare Blog.

Intelligence Studies Senior Fellow Paul Pope recently contributed to the Lawfare Blog with a book review of David Priess’s The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016).

Damien Van Puyvelde, Deputy Director of the National Security Studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso, recently published the article “Fusing Drug Enforcement: A Study of the El Paso Intelligence Center” in Intelligence and National Security.

ISP and the LBJ School’s Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project hosted a discussion about the importance of timely intelligence in nuclear proliferation policy featuring Henry Sokolski, executive director of the nonprofit Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and ISP Director Steve Slick.