Western intelligence has been a target of Kremlin spies for penetration and disruption for a full century now, since the Bolshevik coup took power in Russia. For a hundred years, Russian spies—Chekists, to use the proper term that’s cited proudly...
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The Spy Brief: Dead Drop, 20 April 2018
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It’s time for another TSB Dead Drop of interesting, provocative, thought-provoking, and sometimes even humorous intelligence and security stories from around the world which you might have missed … enjoy! Extraordinary rendition? Wait, I thought the US IC did that... -
Fox News’ Kremlin Ties Go Much Deeper Than Just Sean Hannity
A few days ago, I addressed the troubling issue of Sean Hannity, the Fox News star, and his hidden ties to the Trump administration. With the revelation that Hannity shares an attorney with the president—namely the disgraced Michael Cohen, who’s...
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Sean Hannity Takes Center Stage in Trump’s Kremlin Drama
Yesterday’s drama at the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan unfolded beyond the wildest dreams of countless observers. One week earlier, federal agents executed multiple raids on Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime attorney, fixer and factotum. Granted unusually broad remit, FBI...
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British Intelligence: Yes, Russian Spy Was Poisoned by Kremlin
When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point. With that act of madcap aggression, unleashing a military-grade nerve agent in a...
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The Spy Brief: IC 101 — Welcome to SpookWorld
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The U.S. Intelligence Community is the best-funded and most complex collection of spy agencies on the planet. The “IC,” as the cool spy kids call it, is simply the catch-all term for America’s intelligence agencies, 16 of them in all.... -
The McLaughlin Group (8 April 2018)
Last weekend I appeared again on the relaunched McLaughlin Group as the guest (AKA 4th chair) and it was lots of fun. Issues were important — Syria, the border and immigration, China, Russia, and the world generally going to hell...
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The Spy Brief: Dead Drop, 2 April 2018
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Here are some recent intelligence and security stories that you might have missed but which are informative and sometimes fun. Enjoy! Using your official French diplomatic car to smuggle weapons to HAMAS – yeah, that’s not a good visual right... -
Mueller Finally Unmasked the Trump Campaign’s Secret Russian Operative
Since its establishment a hundred years ago, at the dawn of Bolshevik rule, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Moscow’s General Staff—GRU for short—has been the shadowiest of the Kremlin’s spy agencies. While the KGB was known worldwide, its military counterpart...
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Russia Has an Ideology—and It’s as Entrenched as Communism Was
Four years ago this week, I coined the term Cold War 2.0 to describe the deteriorating diplomatic and military situation between Russia and the West in the aftermath of the Kremlin’s dramatic seizure of Crimea. It was obvious to anyone...