The senior adviser hailed Iran’s “look to the east” policy, a notion promoted by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which calls for an expansion of ties with China and Russia as a long-term strategy to fight off “Western hegemony” and mitigate sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic. The eastward approach, according to the intelligence official, has...
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U.S. Developed Method to Track Balloons Within the Last Year, Sources Say
The new method is important because the balloons are extremely difficult to track without it – they are slow-moving and can fly extremely high, in some cases as high as much as 60 miles up, and can evade the more traditional radars that are oriented toward detecting fast-moving missiles and counterterrorism threats, a lawmaker familiar...
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CIA and Mossad Differ Over Iranian Threat
The episode sheds fresh light on the close but contradictory ties between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies, one of the most complicated relationships in the shadowy world of international espionage. On one hand, Mossad and CIA officers share intelligence and even coordinate some field operations, reflecting Israel’s status as a close and trusted U.S. ally....
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U.S. Intelligence Reported on Chinese Balloon Over Florida in 2019
The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida ” The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the U.S....
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The Five Eyes: A New History Illuminates the West’s Global Surveillance Apparatus
From “Friends With Benefits,” by Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, 19 January 2023