M. Todd Bennett is associate professor of history at East Carolina University. A historian of U.S. intelligence, foreign policy, and the right to know, he is the author, most recently, of Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency (Columbia University Press, 2023). Bennett was formerly a historian at the U.S. Department of State, where he edited the Foreign Relations of the United States series. He resides in Washington, DC.