Paul Cruickshank
Terrorism analyst and editor
Paul Cruickshank is a terrorism analyst and the editor-in-chief of CTC Sentinel. He co-wrote Nine Lives, the story of a spy inside al-Qaeda.
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About Paul Cruickshank
Paul Cruickshank edits CTC Sentinel, a publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and has overseen it since 2015. He has also worked as a terrorism analyst for CNN, and he co-founded the intelligence consultancy Cruickshank & Dean Global Intelligence. With Tim Lister, he helped Aimen Dean tell his story in Nine Lives, published in 2018. Dean had been a member of al-Qaeda and later worked as a double agent for MI6.