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This is above average intelligence a production of the DSR network.

Each week hosts Mark Polymeropolis and David Rothkoff are joined by leading experts from the intelligence community for expert analysis on the biggest

security challenges around the podcast. I'm Mark Polymeroplos and this is

DSR's above average intelligence show. Today I'm very happy to welcome as my

guest Adam Entos.

Adam is an investigative correspondent in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, a role he assumed after more than a decade covering intelligence, national security, and foreign policy, the New Yorker magazine,

the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

He was part of a team that won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

for a Times investigation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In 2018 he was part of a team at the post that won a Pulitzer Prize for

National Reporting for stories on Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential

election.

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