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Artificial intelligence
fromNextgov.com
3 days ago

Old-school spycraft could make a comeback as AI undermines trust

AI may enhance intelligence gathering but also revive traditional espionage methods due to reliability issues with digital communications.
#cia
Podcast
fromWIRED
1 week ago

That Ex-CIA Agent in All Your Feeds Is After a Pardon From Donald Trump

John Kiriakou seeks a presidential pardon to restore his pension after serving time for disclosing CIA torture tactics.
Podcast
fromWIRED
1 week ago

That Ex-CIA Agent in All Your Feeds Is After a Pardon From Donald Trump

John Kiriakou seeks a presidential pardon to restore his pension after serving time for disclosing CIA torture tactics.
Information security
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 week ago

Trump's Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It's All in the Execution

The National Cyber Strategy aims to enhance U.S. national security through aggressive defense and collaboration with the private sector.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review divided loyalties

Graham Greene announced that he was resigning from MI6. Kim Philby, his chief in Section V, MI6's counterespionage arm, blinked. Greene had played his part in tending the illusion.
London politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Dem Lawmaker Presses Kash Patel on Allegedly Firing Counterintelligence Experts for Political Reasons Right Before Iran War

FBI Director Kash Patel faced questioning about firing dozen counterintelligence agents tracking Iran threats, allegedly for investigating Trump's classified documents handling.
fromSecuritymagazine
2 weeks ago

Trump's Former Counter-Terrorism Official Investigated Over Alleged Leaks

Joe Kent, President Trump's former top counter-terrorism official, is under investigation by the FBI's Criminal Division for allegedly improperly sharing classified information. The investigation began months before Kent's recent resignation, according to four individuals with direct knowledge of the probe who spoke to Semafor.
US politics
World news
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
3 weeks ago

US and Israel 'consider special forces raid' to seize Iran's enriched uranium - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The United States and Israel are discussing a potential special forces operation to seize Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile to prevent nuclear weapon development.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Ex-CIA Chief Officer shares a near-death mission that ended in a rush, followed shortly by his divorce

His first wife wasn't in the CIA, and didn't know he worked for the government agency. He couldn't tell her where he'd actually been that day or why he'd sometimes come home late. Even harmless details he couldn't share with her, he said. He'd come home, and she'd ask how his day was, what he'd done, and who he'd interacted with, and he recalled only giving one-word answers like "great," "nothing," and "nobody."
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey on the Mossad's intelligence inside Iran: I was surprised'

From what I have seen on open-source intelligence, the Israelis had essentially developed a capability to tap existing public CCTV networks in Tehran and then layered on top of that, a bunch of data integration software that enable them to build targeting packages on senior leaders. My sense is that there was a US-sourced piece of humint that was then able to be fed into that model.
US politics
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data | TechCrunch

Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons! I'm releasing this because the DHS is killing us and people deserve to know which companies support them and what they're working on.
Privacy professionals
Venture
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 month ago

What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for National Security

Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems require integrated, multi-layered defense architectures combining non-kinetic and kinetic responses rather than isolated legacy technologies, as modern autonomous drones render traditional electronic warfare ineffective.
US politics
fromNextgov.com
4 weeks ago

Private sector, former military leaders urge Congress intervene in Pentagon-Anthropic dispute

A coalition of 35 professionals urged Congress to investigate the Pentagon's conflict with Anthropic over AI safety guardrails, blacklisting, and concerns about autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
US politics
fromMail Online
1 month ago

CIA memo reveals plot to turn citizens into political assassins

Project Artichoke was a classified CIA mind control program from 1951-1956 that attempted to create unwitting assassins through psychological manipulation and drug administration.
US politics
fromAxios
1 month ago

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

The Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to remove AI safeguards for military use, threatening supply chain risk declarations or Defense Production Act enforcement if the company refuses by Friday's deadline.
#espionage
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

National Security Begins Behind the Toaster

Dear Secretary Pete Hegseth, I realize that this is a big ask, but would you please invade and take possession of my son and daughter-in-law's apartment? Or maybe you'd like to make them an offer first? Either way, as a concerned mother and patriot who believes that national security begins at home, I feel it's my duty to let you know that Otis and Luna, the co-dictators of Unit 4-C, at 439 Bergen Street, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, must be overthrown.
Humor
US news
from24/7 Wall St.
2 months ago

Operation Absolute Resolve and Delta Force: Inside America's Most Secretive Missions

Delta Force and similar elite units execute highly discreet, precision-driven missions—hostage rescues, counterterrorism, and raids—shaping U.S. responses to high-risk crises.
Science
fromFuturism
2 months ago

CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is proposed as possibly technological due to anomalous size, rotation, and trajectory, prompting disputes and a nondisclosure CIA FOIA reply.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Russia Is Swarming Europe with Young Agents

Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out arson and other acts of sabotage across Europe. In this week's issue, Joshua Yaffa reports on the Kremlin's secret campaign to undermine the West's support for Ukraine-and breaks down how "single-use agents" are being deployed across the Continent. Some of their missions are small-putting up posters, or picking up a package-while others involve physical attacks, for example setting off explosives and starting fires.
Business
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Now accepting applications - for classified intel

Over the past year, waves of federal layoffs have left thousands of government employees and contractor clients suddenly out of work. For foreign intelligence services, that disruption has opened new opportunities. With more former U.S. officials seeking employment or freelance work - often in specialized national security fields - adversaries, namely China, have stepped in, posing as consulting firms, research groups and recruiters.
US news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring's alleged fifth man

It was a love letter written by one of the more important British spies of the cold war that made Tom Brass realise he had never fully known his mother. The spy in question was John Cairncross, the alleged fifth man in the Cambridge spy ring, whose spycraft also helped the Soviets win the Battle of Kursk and turn the tide of the second world war.
History
#aldrich-ames
US politics
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Thumbs Up! Country's Top-Ranking Warmonger & Quack Have 'Leisurely' Mid-Week Bro Date

Mehmet Oz and Pete Hegseth posted casual beachside brunch photos showing lavish leisure amid U.S. affordability strains, unpaid time-off, and escalating tensions with Iran.
US news
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

U.S. quietly declassifies ColdWar era JUMPSEAT' surveillance satellites

Declassified JUMPSEAT satellites, launched 1971–1987, provided space-based signals intelligence on adversary weapons and were decommissioned in 2006.
US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

The Scandal of Lying about "Thwarted" "Plots" Started 4 Years Ago

Only one or two U.S. terrorist plots were actually thwarted by the Section 215 call-detail dragnet; the widely cited figure of 54 is incorrect.
US politics
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Video: Opinion | The President's Personal Spy Chief

Tulsi Gabbard, as director of national intelligence, is undermining the independence and credibility of U.S. intelligence through politicized actions involving the 2020 election.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Ex-Pentagon Chief On CNN Slams Trump Admin Disguising Military Plane as Civilian Aircraft In Attack

U.S. used a military aircraft disguised as a civilian plane to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat near Venezuela, killing 11 people and prompting legal questions.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Five US lawmakers investigated over warning troops about illegal orders

The legislators released a video in November as US forces carried out air strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific, and as US President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to deploy to major US cities to crack down on undocumented migrants and crime. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens, the lawmakers said in the video. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or Constitution, they said.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Secret service agent assigned to Vice President Vance caught leaking info to fake' date

A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance was placed on leave after sharing sensitive protective and travel details in staged date ruse.
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