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Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community as an Intelligence Analyst for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and Operations (2015) and coauthor of Securing U.S. Innovation (2016). Tromblay has been published by Lawfare, The Hill, Small Wars Journal, Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics. He holds an MA from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and an MS from the National Intelligence University.
Introduction
Chapter One: Undiplomatic Activities
Chapter Two: Cashing In: How Foreign Powers Leverage Hired U.S. Proxies as Intelligence Intermediaries
Chapter Three: In Search of a Good Cause for a Bad Reason
Chapter Four: Assaulting the Ivory Tower
Chapter Five: Skewing the Presses: Foreign Manipulation of Media
Chapter Six: Corrupting Culture: Foreign Actors’ Exploitation of the U.S. Melting Pot Ethos
Chapter Seven: An Un-Fara-Fight
Conclusion
Tromblay boldly shows how the very structure of the U.S. government, American political culture, and modern political processes and actors converge to provide foreign entities with opportunities to influence U.S. politics. This is a disturbing but needed book.
— Nicholas Dujmovic, Assistant Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America