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HUGE NEW HAYDEN CENTER EVENT!!! "Face to Face with Adam Schiff, Chairman, House Intelligence"! Thursday, 2/25 at 7pm ET on Zoom!

Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security

The Hayden Center at the Schar School of Policy and Government provides for the full examination of intelligence and its interplay with US national security.

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Founder

A retired four-star general, General Michael V. Hayden is the founder of the Hayden Center and has been a distinguished visiting professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government since 2009. He is a CNN national security analyst and frequent commentator in top publications, and is valued for his expertise on intelligence matters, cyber security, government surveillance, geopolitics, and more.

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General Hayden has served as director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

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Director

Larry Pfeiffer is the director of the Hayden Center, overseeing its development, operations, and activities.  He is a highly respected and recognized expert in the areas of national and homeland security policy, crisis management, intelligence strategy, analysis and collection, overt and covert operations, and budgetary matters.

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Larry's career has included a stint as senior director of the White House Situation Room.

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Founder

A retired four-star general, General Michael V. Hayden is the founder of the Hayden Center and has been a distinguished visiting professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government since 2009. He is a CNN national security analyst and frequent commentator in top publications, and is valued for his expertise on intelligence matters, cyber security, government surveillance, geopolitics, and more.

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Director

Larry Pfeiffer is the director of the Hayden Center, overseeing its development, operations, and activities.  He is a highly respected and recognized expert in the areas of national and homeland security policy, crisis management, intelligence strategy, analysis and collection, overt and covert operations, and budgetary matters.

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Latest News

Cipher Brief Academic Incubator Article: "The Next World Order is a Gray One"
February 19, 2021
"The Lawfare Podcast: Iran, the U.S., and the Middle East at a Turning Point"
February 16, 2021
The Assault on Intelligence: After Trump
February 02, 2021
SPYMASTERS: A Conversation with Christopher Whipple
November 11, 2020
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Upcoming Events

EXTERNAL EVENT - National Security Institute: "China's Rise: Competition in Cyberspace"
March 03, 2021
EXTERNAL EVENT - INSA: "Wednesday Wisdom with Dave Frederick, Executive Director, U.S. Cyber Command"
March 10, 2021
EXTERNAL EVENT - CSPS: "Book Launch: 'Contests of Initiative: Countering China's Gray Zone Strategy in the East and South China Seas"
March 11, 2021
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Distinguished Senior Fellow

Michael Morell, the Hayden Center's Distinguished Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School, is one of the leading national security professionals in the country with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. During his 33-year career at the CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, and also served twice as Acting Director.

Michael was both with President Bush on 9/11 and with President Obama during the raid that killed bin Laden.

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Distinguished Senior Fellow

Michael Morell, the Hayden Center's Distinguished Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School, is one of the leading national security professionals in the country with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. During his 33-year career at the CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, and also served twice as Acting Director.

Michael was both with President Bush on 9/11 and with President Obama during the raid that killed bin Laden.

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Faculty Advisory Committee

The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security is counseled by an advisory committee comprising distinguished members of the faculty of the Schar School of Policy and Government.

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 The Hayden Center looks to these experts in regional studies, transnational issues, international economics, public policy, and all aspects of governance to provide guidance.

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Faculty Advisory Committee

The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security is counseled by an advisory committee comprising distinguished members of the faculty of the Schar School of Policy and Government.

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 The Hayden Center looks to these experts in regional studies, transnational issues, international economics, public policy, and all aspects of governance to provide guidance.

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Recent Tweets
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No. This was the declassified report required by a law passed with bipartisan support in Congress. A report that the Trump Administration refused to release. twitter.com/richardgrenell…
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Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication cnn.com/2021/02/28/pol…
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DNI Avril Haines holds first interview 👇 npr.org/2021/02/28/971…
Hayden Center • 15 min 53 sec ago
Fmr @CIA Director on Biden administration decisions re Khashoggi murder. twitter.com/johnbrennan/st…
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On again, off again, on again? Fmr acting DNI @RichardGrenell considering run for CA governor? politico.com/news/2021/02/2…
Hayden Center • 13 min 15 sec ago
RT @Billbrowder: BREAKING: Putin’s chef (and owner of the St. Petersburg Troll Farm), Yevgeniy Prigozhin, placed on FBI’s ten most wanted l…
Hayden Center • 14 min 43 sec ago
RT @CNN: Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that appare…
Hayden Center • 15 min 9 sec ago
RT @NPRKelly: It did. Haines committed to resuming public testimony for the annual worldwide threat assessment hearings. That part of the i…
Hayden Center • 21 min 36 sec ago
RT @leeferran: CIA Dir. Gates in 1981: “As this country looks increasingly to covert action as an instrument of foreign policy in an era of…
Hayden Center • 21 min 58 sec ago
In Covert Action Warning, Burns Echoes Cold War CIA Worries codeanddagger.com/news/2021/2/25…
Cipher Brief Partnership

The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security is pleased to partner with the Cipher Brief, a digital platform focused on national security and global issues, through its Academic Incubator program.

Through the Cipher Brief partnership, Schar School students are eligible for a free annual subscription to the online publication and to submit articles for its Academic Incubator column

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Cipher Brief Partnership

The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security is pleased to partner with the Cipher Brief, a digital platform focused on national security and global issues, through its Academic Incubator program.

Through the Cipher Brief partnership, Schar School students are eligible for a free annual subscription to the online publication and to submit articles for its Academic Incubator column

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"Intelligence and espionage form an essential aspect of democracy that is being threatened by broader forces--questions of legitimacy, transparency, politicization, even relevancy--which are beyond the intelligence community's ability to shape or even adequately respond to. The Hayden Center seeks to help answer such questions of what the role and purpose of intelligence should be in today’s world. While the focus of this center will be intelligence and security and policy, it will of necessity create a platform for the calm discussion of these broader questions." - General Hayden

At the Center of the Policy World

Located where intelligence shapes policy—just four miles from the White House and six miles from CIA headquarters—the Hayden Center is located at the Schar School’s campus in Arlington, Virginia.

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Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security
Schar School of Policy and Government
Van Metre Hall, Room 621
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA. 22201
 
Phone:  703-993-8164
Email:   hayden@gmu.edu