Very cool! In a previous life I worked for a year for a guy who was in OSS X-2. After the war, he went (back to?) Harvard to finish is degree and then got a Ph.D. in Romance languages. Not a historian, though. Went on to a 50-ish year career at CIA. #intelhist
NSA has launched a podcast: "No Such Podcast." Their first episode is "How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence." #intelhist#terrorism#intelligence#SIGINT
Osama bin Laden helped plan the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. To find him, the U.S. government had to put its best people on the job. Along with their
I’m delighted that King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence has joined Bluesky! They’ve also provided a really useful list of many of the intelligence historians who have accounts here. Give them all a follow! #intelhist#milhist#skystorians
Hello world! We are thrilled to join @bsky.app and look forward to connecting the #intelligence studies community members here. We are eager to share our exciting events, publications, prizes, and more with all of you. If you are not following us on other platforms, here is our website. kcsi.uk
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"Thanks to...discoveries in the Czech Security Service Archive, we are now able to reconstruct the doctrine that informed the Soviet Bloc’s way of sabotage...and draw parallels with the...suspected sabotage attacks...in Europe and the US since the Russian invasion of Ukraine." #intelhist#Russia
Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of