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Glenn Corn: A Former CIA Agent's Case for Language Learning
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- Higher Ed Now
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- Apr 10, 2026
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- 1813
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Summary
ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant welcomes Glenn Corn , who spent 35 years working in the national security and international affairs community. Mr. Corn served as CIA chief of station for four different Eurasian and Middle Eastern countries. He now teaches graduate-level courses in International Affairs and Security Studies at the Institute of World Politics. In addition to his teaching work, Mr. Corn provides strategic advising and consulting, acts as a visiting fellow at George Mason University's law school's National Security Institute, and serves as an expert contributor to the Cipher Brief. Mr. Corn compellingly argues that language learning is essential, both for an intelligence career and for national security.