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Andrew Badger

Andrew Badger is a former DIA case officer and graduate of the CIA’s elite training program, The Farm. He served on the front lines of human intelligence operations, including a 2014 deployment to Afghanistan in support of U.S. military operations. In the private sector, Badger has advised global firms such as McKinsey & Company and Deutsche Bank on…

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Andrew Badger is a former DIA case officer and graduate of the CIA’s elite training program, The Farm. He served on the front lines of human intelligence operations, including a 2014 deployment to Afghanistan in support of U.S. military operations. In the private sector, Badger has advised global firms such as McKinsey & Company and Deutsche Bank on geopolitical risk. He holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard and a master’s in diplomatic studies from the University of Oxford, where he is a research associate and lectures on state sponsored espionage.

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Articles

Hard Lessons in Hypersonics

In January, the arrest of a Chinese national in the Philippines led to the unravelling of an alleged espionage operation coordinated from Beijing. In an excerpt from their upcoming book, The Great Heist, David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger look at the Manila “spy ring”...