Jeff Stein (author)

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Jeff Stein
Born	(1944-02-13)February 13, 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Investigative reporter, columnist, non-fiction author
Period	1973–present
Genre	U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy issues

Jeff Stein (born February 13, 1944) is the editor-in-chief of SpyTalk, a newsletter covering U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy, on the Substack platform. Previously, he was the SpyTalk columnist (and national security correspondent) at Newsweek, and before that, the SpyTalk blogger at The Washington Post. From 2002 to 2009, he was the founding editor of CQ/Homeland Security, and later national security editor at Congressional Quarterly, where he first launched his SpyTalk column. He had already covered the spy agencies and national policy topics for decades.^[1][2]