"We don’t know that Putin has made up his mind to use force but what we do know is that he’s putting the Russian military…in a place where they could act in a pretty sweeping way," CIA Director Bill Burns says at #WSJCEOCouncil
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"We're not sure" at CIA about a potential timeline of Chinese military action vis Taiwan, Burns says. "I do think the further you get into this decade, the greater the risk...of a potential use of force"
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"The Iranians have not been taking the negotiation seriously at this point," Burns says of ongoing nuclear talks. "We'll see soon enough about how serious they are." CIA doesn't "see any evidence that Iran's Supreme Leader has made a decision to move to weaponize," he says
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Burns: "The jury is still out" on whether Putin will crack down on cyberattacks. Putin "in my experience has never been shy about asserting his control over his own territory and yet you have some pretty..risk-taking cyber criminal gangs clearly operating off Russian territory"
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"We need to transform our operational tradecraft," Burns says of ubiquitous surveillance, "something CIA has succeeded in doing in previous eras where we were challenged technologically." "We are not in a defensive crouch today."
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CIA Director Burns: "If you want to understand the mindset and the calculus of some very complicated foreign leaders, you're still going to need that human intelligence"
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Burns: "I think space is going to be hugely significant as you look...at the future of warfare." "Russian & Chinese development in anti-satellite weapons is something that really should be a source of pretty serious concern for us...We're going to have to work hard at this one"
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Despite expectations, Iran is not in a rush to rejoin the deal. Their other option to to rely more on the Asian marketplace. In the end, although they say they want to remain neutral, they take sides.
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