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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.