Tim Weiner
@tim-weiner.bsky.social
Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century is #3 on the New York Times bestseller list! A new newsletter: CODEWORD, soon available to all who follow. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
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Tim Weiner
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· Nov 11
Howdy, folks. I write books about the CIA, the FBI, presidents and spies, and commit journalism from time to time. Recovering New York Times reporter, aficionado of freedom.
This isn't proof that the Kremlin had a unique source of kompromat on Trump, but it's shall we say highly suggestive.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
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November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This isn't proof that the Kremlin had a unique source of kompromat on Trump, but it's shall we say highly suggestive.
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Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Tuesday's vote and today's SCOTUS blowout against tariffs might, just might, show that the wheels are starting to come off the Trump juggernaught. We live in hope.
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tuesday's vote and today's SCOTUS blowout against tariffs might, just might, show that the wheels are starting to come off the Trump juggernaught. We live in hope.
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Can't wait for our Wednesday, Nov 19, discussion with @tim-weiner.bsky.social about his super new book, "The Mission." This is going to be good! @lucatrenta.bsky.social @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social .
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Can't wait for our Wednesday, Nov 19, discussion with @tim-weiner.bsky.social about his super new book, "The Mission." This is going to be good! @lucatrenta.bsky.social @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social .
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Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:
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Tim Weiner,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 22/09/2025 · 52m
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September 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:
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Can't cancel this, Mr. President!
September 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Can't cancel this, Mr. President!
Tickets are going fast for the Wit Literary Festival -- with the legendary CIA officer Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler, the great author and journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff, and yours truly -- Friday 9/26 in Lenox, MA. Pick up a pair right here!
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WIT 2025: Tim Weiner and James Lawler in Conversation with Garrett M. Graff - The Authors Guild
Intelligence fails because it is human. What role does the CIA play in U.S. foreign policy and in keeping Americans safe at home and abroad? Acclaimed journalist Tim Weiner, whose Legacy of Ashes is t...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tickets are going fast for the Wit Literary Festival -- with the legendary CIA officer Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler, the great author and journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff, and yours truly -- Friday 9/26 in Lenox, MA. Pick up a pair right here!
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I'm off on a book tour! If you can't join, please buy THE MISSION right here. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester VT, 9/20. NextStage, Putney VT 9/21. WiT Festival, Lenox MA, 9/25, Thalia Bookstore, Hamburg, Germany, 10/1, American Library, Paris, France, 10/7. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Mission
New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice
\"No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm off on a book tour! If you can't join, please buy THE MISSION right here. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester VT, 9/20. NextStage, Putney VT 9/21. WiT Festival, Lenox MA, 9/25, Thalia Bookstore, Hamburg, Germany, 10/1, American Library, Paris, France, 10/7. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Russia's war on Ukraine: "This war started because of bad energy policy. The Biden administration was slow-walking natural gas exports to the rest of the world."
September 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.
Excellent interview on the crisis at CIA.
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Has the CIA lost its way? - ABC listen
Founded in 1947, the CIA was established under the mission 'know thine enemy'. Now, under US President Donald Trump, the agency is being gutted. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Tim Weiner, argues t...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Excellent interview on the crisis at CIA.
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In which Trump is indicted in the court of history.
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Trump ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSES Himself in FAILED STUNT
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September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In which Trump is indicted in the court of history.
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When future historians chronicle the Second Civil War, they may see this story as a harbinger of what was to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
A False Report of a Shooter Prompts a Shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy
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September 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
When future historians chronicle the Second Civil War, they may see this story as a harbinger of what was to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
People of Montana! I'll be keynoting the Free Press Fest on September 16, followed by a talk about the state of the nation with former Senator John Tester, at Montana State in Bozeman. Be there or be square!
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Montana Free Press Fest 2025
Join us Sept. 16-18 in Bozeman, MT for Free Press Fest, a dynamic 3-day journalism conference presenting keynotes, panels, and workshops.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
People of Montana! I'll be keynoting the Free Press Fest on September 16, followed by a talk about the state of the nation with former Senator John Tester, at Montana State in Bozeman. Be there or be square!
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CODEWORD is my new newsletter on the continuing crisis in American intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free. Here are the first six issues:
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CODEWORD.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Highly recommend.
What’s the CIA really been up to since 9/11? 🤔
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September 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Highly recommend.
The president is a war criminal. Read all about it in CODEWORD, my new newsletter. Subscribe! It's free.
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The Department of War
The President as Assassin-in-Chief
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September 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The president is a war criminal. Read all about it in CODEWORD, my new newsletter. Subscribe! It's free.
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The president is a war criminal. The case against him is here, in my new newsletter, CODEWORD. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-depart...
The Department of War
The President as Assassin-in-Chief
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September 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The president is a war criminal. The case against him is here, in my new newsletter, CODEWORD. Subscribe! It's free. timweiner.beehiiv.com/p/the-depart...
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What’s the CIA really been up to since 9/11? 🤔
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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What’s the CIA really been up to since 9/11? 🤔
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Putin tried to kill the leader of the EU. Part of his 20-year campaign of sabotage and subversion in European nations. Americans need to wake up to the nature of Trump's alliance with him. At the edge of the horizon of what's possible? A secret pact to carve up Europe. Echoes of Hitler and Stalin.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT
There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Putin tried to kill the leader of the EU. Part of his 20-year campaign of sabotage and subversion in European nations. Americans need to wake up to the nature of Trump's alliance with him. At the edge of the horizon of what's possible? A secret pact to carve up Europe. Echoes of Hitler and Stalin.
A five-star review by Tom Griffin of The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century. open.substack.com/pub/intellig...
Book review - The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century
In 2007’s Legacy of Ashes, New York Times journalist Tim Weiner produced an influential history of the CIA from its foundation. The Mission brings that story up to date, and while the two books overla...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A five-star review by Tom Griffin of The Mission: The CIA in the Twenty-First Century. open.substack.com/pub/intellig...
The nation we knew is being demolished. Read all about it in "Vanishing America," the latest edition of my new newsletter, CODEWORD, a chronicle of intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free.
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Vanishing America
A Nation Under Attack From Within
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August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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📖 Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Weiner joins NPR’s Greg Myre to talk "The Mission: CIA in the 21st Century"
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August 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
📖 Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Weiner joins NPR’s Greg Myre to talk "The Mission: CIA in the 21st Century"
🗓 Sept 9, 7pm ET
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➡️ Reception + book signing after!
REGISTER: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085...
Seats are limited—don’t miss it!
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➡️ Reception + book signing after!
REGISTER: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085...
Seats are limited—don’t miss it!
New CODEWORD just dropped! CODEWORD is my new newsletter on intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free.
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Vanishing America
A Nation Under Attack From Within
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August 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New CODEWORD just dropped! CODEWORD is my new newsletter on intelligence, national security, foreign policy, and democracy. Subscribe! It's free.
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Who will want to work for American intelligence after this is over? We're witnessing a deliberate sabotage by Trump's national security team.
I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:
August 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Who will want to work for American intelligence after this is over? We're witnessing a deliberate sabotage by Trump's national security team.