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May 2018

• North Korea Sees Nuclear Weapons as Key to its Strategy, Pentagon Report Says by Steve Hirsch, Air Force Magazine, May 23. "A newly released Defense Department report emphasizes the importance North Korea places on its nuclear weapons as a defense against the United States and its allies."
• Mild-Mannered Spy Chief Dan Coats Gives Trump the Facts, Gently by Massimo Calabresi, Time, May 22. "Being the boss of all spy bosses requires not just authority but cunning. Even in normal times, the job is among the most thankless in government."
• Pentagon report: Nukes are central to North Korea strategy by Robert Burns, Associated Press, May 22. "A copy of the Pentagon report was posted Tuesday by Steven Aftergood on his Secrecy News blog. Later in the day the Pentagon made it available on its website."
• Bitcoin Could Be a Problem for U.S. Security Clearances by Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg, May 22. "As the Pentagon struggles to recruit a more tech-savvy workforce, it's facing the confusion of many an old-timer: What to make of people who invest or trade in Bitcoin."
• 15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly by David Axe, Motherboard Vice, May 21. "Before Facebook, the military tried to make an all knowing 'cyberdiary' called LifeLog."
• Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets by Frank Konkel, NextGov, May 14. "The Pentagon's JEDI cloud will be designed to store the government's most sensitive classified information, including nuclear secrets."
• The U.S. Government's Secret Inventions by Arvind Dilawar, Slate, May 9. "Secrecy orders allow U.S. defense agencies to control patents, including those that are privately developed."
• The CIA Cleared Her Book Twice. Then It Took It Back. Why? It's a Secret. by Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast, May 1. "A former counterterrorism analyst plans to sue the CIA after it reversed itself to find her 'entire manuscript reveals classified information'."

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