SOME WEEKS the stories arrive and depart on time like a French bullet train, as if propelled by rail magnets from assignments to posting.
This week, not so. A tumbling series of events—missed deadlines, a medical mystery, dental appointments, housekeeping mishaps—I could go on—derailed our usual schedule of three, four, sometimes five original stories a week.
I beg your pardon.
But! Coming soon! This weekend’s edition of our popular new SpyWeek feature; a piece on U.S.-Israeli spy wars; a look at Berlin’s naming and shaming of the surging MAGA-like Alternative-for-Germany (AfG) party; and a roadmap for the likely gutting of the FBI in a Trump administration—and much more. Promise.
So, thanks for your patience. (You are an incredibly loyal group: Over two out of three subscribers stick with us year after year, a very favorable rate in a now very crowded snd intensely contested field.)
That’s due on no small measures to subscribers like Carl Ford, a former Assistant Secretary of State for intelligence and Research.
“I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t get my Weekly from SpyTalk,” Ford wrote last week. “Not only is it always informative, but it is also fun to read. If you don’t already have subscription to SpyTalk, the Weekly alone is worth the price of admission.”
Thanks, Mr. Ford. We couldn’t agree more.
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