Chinese and Russian spies “are all over Florida, trying to steal whatever they can get their hands on,” says a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent. For a chilling Vanity Fair exposé, contributing editor Adam Ciralsky spent a year with security and intel experts on Florida’s so-called Space Coast, where foreign spooks are trying to plunder America’s high-tech, military and aerospace secrets. His investigation describes previously undisclosed incursions by Chinese nationals—and the turf wars that have pitted the spies against local officials and a maddening federal bureaucracy. Ciralsky’s name for this palm-dotted stretch of Florida? Spylandia. Others call it Cape Fear. |
DAVID FRIEND,
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR |
The so-called Florida Space Coast, with its rocket launches and military tech, is now an unassuming setting for espionage. |
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Amid growing reports of brutal immigration-enforcement tactics, the relatives of three ICE agents tell Vanity Fair how their relationships have fractured. In some cases, they’re cutting ties. |
Experts explain how rising fuel costs will affect Hollywood—and eventually, the films we see. |
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For a shy young art director, being hired to design John F. Kennedy Jr.’s new magazine was both daunting and exhilarating. In an adaptation from his memoir of his years at George, from its inception until Kennedy’s death, in 1999, Matt Berman recalls the growing friendship between them, the role played by a savvy Carolyn Bessette, and three challenging cover shoots, with Cindy Crawford, Demi Moore, and Barbra Streisand. |
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