https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia. #Stalin refused to believe his own #spies when they told him #Hitler planned to invade #Russia. On the other hand, George W. Bush was only too willing to believe his when they told him it was a "slam dunk" that Saddam Hussein's #Iraq possessed #WMD. Political leaders have a tendency only to listen to #intelligence agencies when they tell them what they want to hear, not when they don't.
#Spies
It reduces the need for as many #spies because we can #crowdsource our #intelligence. Isn't that interesting? You can just do it right out in the open. And then because you know what they know you know what they can do. If you know what they can do, what else do you need to know? 🔦🔦🔦
#DepartmentOfInjustice #PamBondi #TFG #Spies
The spied on congress who had just 4 computers to look over the Trump-Epstien Files. Then they printed each one out for Bondi to refer to.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5735974-doj-epstein-file-searches-lawmakers/
This 1980 case of a Singaporean getting jailed for sharing state secrets is wild.
‘Alan Wee Kheng Soon, then 30, was ensnared by a female agent, or "swallow", who seduced and blackmailed him into handing over information on how to code and decode messages being sent between Singapore and its embassy in Moscow.
The woman, who told Wee that her name was Luba Lubov Maluba…’
@andi not to mention Durov's incredibly muted and milquetoast response [to Russian restrictions] compared to his recent verbal attacks against western leaders.
Also the actual supposed new restrictions on telegram are very vague and mostly relate to it slowing or not working quite as well. Sure. Russia would like its own people to move onto another app but Telegram can still be an extremely useful tool — especially abroad. All of this smells sus.
"Black American Spies and Why They Were The Best
Black spies used their invisibility in plain sight to carry out some of the nation’s most important war efforts.
When most people think of history’s American spies, they imagine a sleuthty white man, tracking troop movements, planting bugs and obtaining secrets under the radar of the enemy. What’s rarely imagined, let alone taught, is the role Black Americans played in espionage from the Revolutionary War through modern times."
https://www.theroot.com/black-american-spies-and-why-they-were-the-best-2000089134
From a Literary Titan Review of THE RED IN THE WRONG PROFESSION:
#writingcommunity #writers #readers #readingcommunity #spies #coldwar #mysteries #bookstoread #bookstagram
#France #China #espionage #spies
'Residents of Camblanes-et-Meynac, about 15km (9 miles) from Bordeaux, grew suspicious when - after letting a house through rentals giant Airbnb - the Chinese pair erected a large parabolic antenna in the garden.'
Chinese spies in France ?
Possibly trying to capture strategic information with an antenna.
#China #Spies #France #EU #Interference #EuropeanDefense
https://www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers/la-puissance-d-espionnage-chinoise-a-ete-decuplee-quatre-personnes-interpellees-en-gironde-pour-soupcons-d-espionnage-pour-pekin_7784393.html
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"Eight decades ago, Andrew Cassel’s father was bundled aboard a #prison ship in #England and sent to #Canada as an “enemy alien”, where he was held behind barbed wire for two years. The elder Cassel was part of a little-known operation that in 1940 targeted about 2,300 #Jewish #Europeans whom the #British feared were spies for #AdolfHitler. Now, Cassel—along with other descendants and some historians—are raising awareness about what he calls “Canada’s dirty little secret”.
The #prisoners lived in harsh conditions at nine prisoner-of-#war camps in #Quebec, #Ontario and #NewBrunswick. In some cases, they were locked up together with groups of real #Nazi soldiers and #German U-boat crews who’d been captured by the Allies during the #SecondWorldWar. But they weren’t #spies—they were doctors, professors, #Yeshiva students and bankers who fled to England to escape the #Holocaust. The British government soon realized their mistake, but Canada..."
"What an Antifa Activist Learned While Undercover With Patriot Front
There is still so much confusion about what antifa is and isn’t. Listen to President Donald Trump, and you’d think antifa is a 'domestic terrorist organization.' Listen to many liberal pundits and you’d think antifa doesn’t really exist at all; that it is just an 'idea,' a simple shortening of the word 'anti-fascist' — a label most Americans would use to self-identify.
But the truth about antifa is something far more interesting. Antifa is real, and refers to an underground network of anarchists, socialists and communists dedicated to destroying the far right 'by any means necessary.' Although its activists sometimes punch neo-Nazis, its violence is rare, and equating antifa with 'domestic terrorists' is absurd. The bulk of the work antifa does is nonviolent but nevertheless extraordinary. Over the last decade, antifa deployed spies to go undercover into the new generation of white supremacist groups organizing in the Trump era. These spies gathered intelligence that would eventually unmask thousands of pseudonymous neo-Nazis, revealing them to be your local police officer, your local high school teacher, your college professor, your pastor, and your local elected official."
Author Interview about my latest book, THE RED IN THE WRONG PROFESSION: literarytitan.com/2026/02/02/i...
#writingcommunity #writers #readingcommunity #readers #authors #books #mysteries #coldwar #espionage #spies
Author Interview about my latest book, THE RED IN THE WRONG PROFESSION: literarytitan.com/2026/02/02/i...
#writingcommunity #writers #readingcommunity #readers #authors #books #mysteries #coldwar #espionage #spies
British intelligence faced betrayal within. Chapman Pincher names the man.
#MI5 #Spies #ColdWarBooks
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/mi5-soviet-spy/
US #spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post. Via @arstechnica #Spies #Espionage #Defense 🫡 🇺🇸
US spy satellite agency declas...
A monochrome photographic portrait from between 1865 and the 1920s taken by Hense & Spies, Königs-Allee 98, Düsseldorf…
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2026-4334
https://privatsammlungen.net/2026-4334/
#Hense #Spies #Düsseldorf #photography #antique #collecting #MonochromePhotography #BWPhotography #CDV #CabinetPhotography
RE: https://pbs.idv.tw/@taipei_times/115922607411469479
Who needs #Chinese 🇨🇳 #spies when you've got #Huang_Kuo_chang (#黃國昌)?
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Compton Mackenzie served with British Intelligence during WW1. Banned in 1932, the original version of his war memoir GREEK MEMORIES wasn’t published until 2011 – & was still not officially declassified in 2017
2/4: Mark Kaufman on “Spyography”: “a modernist genre…that trades on the pleasures of secrecy & revelation, blurs the line between fact & fiction”
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https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol13_2017_kaufman
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #spies #memoir #WW1
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