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David McCloskey
Ex-CIA | Author | Speaker
David McCloskey is the author of Damascus Station and Moscow X. He is a former CIA analyst and former consultant at McKinsey & Company.
While at the CIA, he wrote regularly for the President’s Daily Brief, delivered classified testimony to Congressional oversight committees, and briefed senior White House officials, Ambassadors, military officials, and Arab royalty.
He worked in CIA field stations across the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring and conducted a rotation in the Counterterrorism Center focused on the jihad in Syria and Iraq. During his time at McKinsey, David advised national security, aerospace, and transportation clients on a range of strategic and operational issues.
David holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he specialized in energy policy and the Middle East.
He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
Schedule David to speak
Looking to add intrigue to your speaker line-up? Whether it is a corporate retreat, company event, university lecture, or gathering just for fun, David will entertain your guests with all things CIA, intelligence, geopolitics, and spy fiction.
Book 1
DAMASCUS STATION
A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer.
Book 2
MOSCOW X
A darling CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at the center?
In the news
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"Two Santas, a rare watch and a break-in gone bad - a new fiction written exclusively for the FT by CIA officer turned bestselling author David McCloskey."
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"NPR's Mary Louise Kelley talks with David McCloskey, whose new spy versus spy novel Moscow X is about a CIA officer scheming to recruit a Russian intelligence officer - and visa versa."
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"Of the contemporary heirs to Fleming, David McCloskey is the most readable and exciting. A former cia analyst, Mr McCloskey writes novels that bristle with tradecraft and gadgets."
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