Jeff Stein, a decorated Vietnam veteran and the founding editor-in-chief of SpyTalk on Substack, is a longtime Washington, DC-based investigative reporter, columnist and author specializing in U.S. national security issues. He has been writing the popular SpyTalk column for nearly 20 years. On Oct. 1, 2013 he joined the revamped NEWSWEEK, which began featuring his long-running SpyTalk column, which was first launched in 2005 at Congressional Quarterly, where he was national security editor, and previous to that, the founding editor of CQ/Homeland Security. In 2008, SpyTalk went daily as a blog, and in 2010, moved to The Washington Post. An Army Intelligence case officer in Vietnam during 1968-69, Jeff is also the author of 3 books: A Murder in Wartime (St. Martin's Press 1992), Saddam's Bombmaker (with Khidhir Hamza, Scribners 2000) and The Vietnam Fact Book (Dell 1984). In the 1980s, he was Deputy Foreign News editor for UPI. He has also over the years written for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and such major magazines as Foreign Policy, New York, Rolling Stone, GQ, the Village Voice, the Nation, The New Republic and PlayboyHe has appeared frequently on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the BBC, PBS and NPR as a commentator on national security issues.Specialties: Writing, editing, publishing, national security, foreign policy, military policy, intelligence, espionage