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Jock Bruce
@jockbruce.bsky.social
Retired minor deep state functionary. Fossicker in archives.
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And vice versa. As an old boss of mine was wont to remark - ‘sometimes the comms don’t work and there’s no int, you still gotta fly’.

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Good piece. And a perennial debate in the 🇬🇧IC since there’s been such a thing. There’s discussion in the 1920s on the lines of ‘this is not what we would have if we started with a clean sheet of paper but it is what it is’.

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JBjockbruce.bsky.social

Sounds all very Greeks and Romans , vintage Harold MacMillan.

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By the retired Int Corps warrant officer who was the only one in the section who had a clue what we really doing - obviously.

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JBjockbruce.bsky.social

In an intelligence agency in a world long gone we had ‘word of the week’ that, whatever the subject, you had to work into your reporting under pain of death ( or cakes all round). Three words is impressive.

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HKhelenkennedy.bsky.social

He's not legally allowed to run a university. He's not legally allowed to run a charity. Now he's not legally allowed to run a business in New York. Yet he wants America to put him in charge.

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JBjockbruce.bsky.social

A busy week. A great day out at the Pima Air & Space Museum; cooked haggis, neeps & tatties for 8; got married.

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Cameras and the subsequent processing and analysis

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JBjockbruce.bsky.social

Some are not so delighted because it means they’re going to have to actually do some work.

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MSmarkstout.bsky.social

That gap in your life has doubtless been the absence of a book about US intelligence in World War I. Not to fear! My book on that very subject is out today! “World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence” published by the fine people at the University Press of Kansas. #FWWHist

Me, standing in front of a bookshelf holding a copy of my new book “World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence.” I have a big grin on my face because OMG this took soooo long.
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Jock Bruce
@jockbruce.bsky.social
Retired minor deep state functionary. Fossicker in archives.
25 followers38 following15 posts