Alex Joske’s new book Spies and Lies: How China’s Covert Operations Fooled the World shines much needed light into this darkest red corner of the CCP and its quest, not only to steal foreign government secrets and technology, but to exert international influence at the level of a modern superpower, albeit with the proclivities of...
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MuckRock’s Guide to Getting Your Own FBI File
A self-request falls under the Privacy Act and not the Freedom of Information Act. It requires a special Department of Justice form stating, under penalty of perjury, that you are who you say you are.The request should state clearly that you are requesting all documents with your name and any aliases in them. It...
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UK Wages Information War in 20 Countries Around Russia
From Declassified UK: The project most clearly directed at Russia is the Counter Disinformation and Media Development programme. It is run around Russia’s western border, from the Baltic States to Central and Eastern Europe, although project documents do not disclose specific countries. It cost £60.4m in the four years to 2021. The programme ”supports [the government’s] Russia...
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DIA: Russia May ‘Increasingly Rely On Its Nuclear Deterrent’
As Russia faces setbacks in Ukraine and the prospect of economic isolation, the country might “increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the West and project strength to its internal and external audiences,” Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, said in a report to Congress on Thursday. The war—and stringent sanctions...
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John le Carre Revisited: The Spy Who Spied on Spies
From Book Marks John le Carre was the pen name of David Cornwell, a former MI6 intelligence officer, who became a novelist. When John le Carré died in December of last year, not long after completing work on his final novel, he left behind an incomparable body of espionage fiction that includes The Spy Who Came...