The people who seized the files at the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications may not have even...
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021
With the Taliban Ascendant, Nuclear Pakistan Is Only Getting Stronger
Today’s posting by the non-profit National Security Archive In Washington DC follows the recent admission by Pakistani President Arif Alvi...
August 19, 2021August 19, 2021
From the National Security Archive, the 20-Year War in 20 Documents
The non-profit National Security Archive at George Washington University is the place to go to understand the debacle of Afghanistan....
August 19, 2021August 19, 2021
The New Russian Cruise Missile Known as the ‘Flying Chernobyl’
They call it to call it a “flying Chernobyl. It is a Russian cruise missile, known as Skyfall, that...
August 18, 2021August 18, 2021
Why We Lost in Afghanistan
Via CounterPunch.org, a veteran Washington military analyst Winslow Wheeler breaks it down. The Afghan government’s war effort was riddled with...
July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Israeli Spyware Used to Surveil Activists World Wide
Military-grade spyware leased by the Israeli firm NSO Group to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted...
July 12, 2021July 13, 2021
How the CIA Plotted the ‘Accidental’ Death of Raul Castro
One of blackest of the black arts of espionage is the assassination operation designed to disguise who was reallly reponsible....
May 21, 2021May 21, 2021
Why the Covid-19 ‘Lab Leak Theory” Needs Another Look
Sometimes the problems facing intelligence agencies–and those who report on them–seem insoluble. For example, what caused U.S. diplomatic official to...
May 17, 2021May 19, 2021
RIP: Janine Brookner, Ousted CIA Officer Who Challenged Agency in Court
Yet Ms. Brookner was among the most skilled and admired case officers in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations — the...
May 17, 2021May 17, 2021
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, Many Chose to Cooperate
In his TK News Substack newsletter, Matt Taibbi compares the relationship between U.S. news organizations and the intelligence community...
April 13, 2021April 13, 2021
Spy Talk: 5 Ways to Read an Intelligence Report
From the reliable SpyTalk, retired CIA official Ronald Marks has some commonsense advice for those trying to understand the intelligence...
April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture
From What does it take to excite America’s moral nerve endings? Bombing kids with cluster bombs or shredding wedding parties...
