Emmanouil Karatarakis

National Security and Defense Correspondent

To Vima Sunday, Greece

Mr. Karatarakis is the National Security & Defense Correspondent for To Vima Sunday Newspaper in Greece. A former senior advisor in the Greek Ministries of Defense and Finance and in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, he has worked for CNBC in London and as TIME Magazine's correspondent in Athens. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, the Foreign Press Association of Greece and a former member of the Association of American Correspondents in London. During his 5-year tenure in the U.S. in the 2010s he held high level security clearances. His primary interests include - Foreign and domestic counterintelligence and interagency (counterintelligence) CI coordination - NRO RG-XX/GSSAP space platforms, SAR/[redacted] space platforms, current[redacted] space platforms & New Generation Electro-Optical space platforms (NGEO) - Defense Department acquisition, technology and logistics policy - Assessment of national apace assets OPSEC (operation security) against hostile entities - U.S. Foreign Policy and nuclear weapons strategy - Non-coercive and critical Interviewing of cooperative and/or hostile human control sources in the US and Europe - European, Russian and Chinese foreign policy He is a graduate of the London School of Economics.