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Brian O'Neill

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Brian O’Neill (LinkedIn) is a professor of practice at Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, where he teaches strategic intelligence. He is a retired CIA senior executive, with past assignments including work on the President’s Daily Brief and service as Deputy Director of Analysis at the National Counterterrorism Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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People and first-responders gather outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 13, 2025. Israel hit about 100 targets in Iran on June 13, including nuclear facilities and military command centres and killing senior figures including the armed forces chief and top nuclear scientists. (Photo by MEGHDAD MADADI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe (R) accompanied by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (L)
National flags of USA and Russia waving in the wind on a clear day.
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