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Israeli Spyware Used to Surveil Activists World Wide

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021

Israeli Spyware Used to Surveil Activists World Wide

Military-grade spyware leased by the Israeli firm NSO Group to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals...

How the CIA Plotted the ‘Accidental’ Death of Raul Castro

July 12, 2021July 13, 2021

How the CIA Plotted the ‘Accidental’ Death of Raul Castro

One of blackest of the black arts of espionage is the assassination operation designed to disguise...

Why the Covid-19 ‘Lab Leak Theory” Needs Another Look

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

Why the Covid-19 ‘Lab Leak Theory” Needs Another Look

Sometimes the problems facing intelligence agencies–and those who report on them–seem insoluble. For example, what caused...

RIP: Janine Brookner, Ousted CIA Officer Who Challenged Agency in Court

May 17, 2021May 19, 2021

RIP: Janine Brookner, Ousted CIA Officer Who Challenged Agency in Court

Yet Ms. Brookner was among the most skilled and admired case officers in the CIA’s Directorate...

Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, Many Chose to Cooperate

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, Many Chose to Cooperate

In his TK News Substack newsletter, Matt Taibbi compares the relationship between U.S. news organizations...

Spy Talk: 5 Ways to Read an Intelligence Report

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

Spy Talk: 5 Ways to Read an Intelligence Report

From the reliable SpyTalk, retired CIA official Ronald Marks has some commonsense advice for those trying...

A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture

From What does it take to excite America’s moral nerve endings? Bombing kids with cluster bombs...

‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated...

‘Special Ops’: A RAW Story in a New Format

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

‘Special Ops’: A RAW Story in a New Format

There are almost as many cable series about intelligence agencies as there are intelligence agencies. There’s...

The Unsolved Mystery of the ‘Havana Syndrome’

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

The Unsolved Mystery of the ‘Havana Syndrome’

The non-profit National Security Archive in Washington has the latest on a mysterious malady that felled...

China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021

China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero

SpyTalk on China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS in Chinese) Since its founding in 1983, the...

Transparency and National Security: What News Editors Need to Tell Their Reporters

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Transparency and National Security: What News Editors Need to Tell Their Reporters

Dan Froomkin at PressWatch on journalism after January 6. The most important lesson of the Bush/Cheney...

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