Bill Robinson
@billrobinson.bsky.social
Researcher focused on Canadian SIGINT activities past and present. Also FVEY and other countries. Citizen Lab Research Fellow. Occasionally compared to a hedgehog. He/him.
Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
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June 1965, a newspaper headline read "LBJ's man in Vietnam Really a Top Canadian", Op. Bacon may have been burned. Beyond the operation’s confidentiality breach, there was considerable concern that Bacon was “exacerbating DRVN antagonism to the USA and annoyance with Canada”.
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
June 1965, a newspaper headline read "LBJ's man in Vietnam Really a Top Canadian", Op. Bacon may have been burned. Beyond the operation’s confidentiality breach, there was considerable concern that Bacon was “exacerbating DRVN antagonism to the USA and annoyance with Canada”.
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The full image is now up. Pituffik Space Base / Thule Air Base, Greenland as captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite on August 17, 1976.
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
The full image is now up. Pituffik Space Base / Thule Air Base, Greenland as captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite on August 17, 1976.
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
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This report came out before you were elected, @mark-carney.bsky.social, but now it's your responsibility. What is your plan to address this?
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Internal report describes a 'cesspool of racism' in the federal public service | CBC News
An internal report on workplace racism and harassment at the highest levels of the federal public service shows that not even the federal government’s top executives are immune from the problem.
www.cbc.ca
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
This report came out before you were elected, @mark-carney.bsky.social, but now it's your responsibility. What is your plan to address this?
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
In October 2024, the "Canadian Intelligence History at the Crossroads: Historical Reflections on the Occasion of CSIS' 40th Anniversary" conference was held in Ottawa. The conference was supported in part by generous donations from CSIS and CSE. 1/5
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
In October 2024, the "Canadian Intelligence History at the Crossroads: Historical Reflections on the Occasion of CSIS' 40th Anniversary" conference was held in Ottawa. The conference was supported in part by generous donations from CSIS and CSE. 1/5
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On Feb 19 join the Citizen Lab's Kate Robertson to discuss the role of technology and the current state of play in border externalization.
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM
On Feb 19 join the Citizen Lab's Kate Robertson to discuss the role of technology and the current state of play in border externalization.
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out! It's all the Terrorist Financing news from around the world last month. Having trouble staying caught up with all the news? We've got you covered! Have a read:
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...
Global Terrorism Financing Report
January 2026
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out! It's all the Terrorist Financing news from around the world last month. Having trouble staying caught up with all the news? We've got you covered! Have a read:
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...
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Trump and Putin are killing what remains of the nuclear guardrails that have help prevent the use of nuclear weapons for over fifty years. Why? What was the New Start treaty they just killed and what comes next? It’s nothing good. source=Z2lkOi8vc3VwZXJjYXN0LXdlYi9TdWJzY3JpcHRpb24vMTE2NDM0NA
History As It Happens
– Bonus Ep! Bring On the Nukes
historyasithappens.supercast.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Trump and Putin are killing what remains of the nuclear guardrails that have help prevent the use of nuclear weapons for over fifty years. Why? What was the New Start treaty they just killed and what comes next? It’s nothing good. source=Z2lkOi8vc3VwZXJjYXN0LXdlYi9TdWJzY3JpcHRpb24vMTE2NDM0NA
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What about "academic counter-intelligence" agencies? Asking for a friend :)
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
What about "academic counter-intelligence" agencies? Asking for a friend :)
Poll shows academics and intelligence agencies are the most trusted Canadian institutions.
February 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Poll shows academics and intelligence agencies are the most trusted Canadian institutions.
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My new article is up. It is about Ukraine's attack on a space tracking station and the history of that large facility during the Cold War: thespacereview.com/article/5155/1
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 PM
My new article is up. It is about Ukraine's attack on a space tracking station and the history of that large facility during the Cold War: thespacereview.com/article/5155/1
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PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
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As America weaponizes its post-9/11 security state to terrorize migrants and target dissidents, her (former) allies need to unplug from it ASAP. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: For years, Canada has used a secret U.S.-run terror watchlist. Now Trump could use it against us
It's called TUSCAN, and it's a nightmare for civil liberties. We need to put a stop to it.
www.thestar.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
As America weaponizes its post-9/11 security state to terrorize migrants and target dissidents, her (former) allies need to unplug from it ASAP. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Wyden has been on the Senate intel committee for many years. The letter signifies that he's been briefed on a major CIA covert action -- as is legally required -- and the briefing was alarming. He wouldn't do this unless he believed a great deal is at stake.
www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...
www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Wyden has been on the Senate intel committee for many years. The letter signifies that he's been briefed on a major CIA covert action -- as is legally required -- and the briefing was alarming. He wouldn't do this unless he believed a great deal is at stake.
www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...
www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...
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Ottawa to reduce warrantless powers for law enforcement in border-security bill.
"Records obtained thru access to info ... show that CSIS worked with the federal Public Safety Department on drafting sections of Bill C-2 ..." By Marie Woolf
theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
"Records obtained thru access to info ... show that CSIS worked with the federal Public Safety Department on drafting sections of Bill C-2 ..." By Marie Woolf
theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
Ottawa set to reduce warrantless powers for law enforcement in refined border-security bill
Public Safety Minister working on tightening proposed provisions to get support for bill
theglobeandmail.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Ottawa to reduce warrantless powers for law enforcement in border-security bill.
"Records obtained thru access to info ... show that CSIS worked with the federal Public Safety Department on drafting sections of Bill C-2 ..." By Marie Woolf
theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
"Records obtained thru access to info ... show that CSIS worked with the federal Public Safety Department on drafting sections of Bill C-2 ..." By Marie Woolf
theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
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With the recent declassification of the US Jumpseat eavesdropping satellite, which are on a high altitude elliptical orbit, here is some content to give more context. First, a primer on what you can listen to with this kind of satellite: satelliteobservation.net/2017/06/04/s...
Signal intelligence 101: SIGINT targets
A quick overview of the various types of signal intelligence targets, with an emphasis on the Soviet Cold War systems
satelliteobservation.net
February 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
With the recent declassification of the US Jumpseat eavesdropping satellite, which are on a high altitude elliptical orbit, here is some content to give more context. First, a primer on what you can listen to with this kind of satellite: satelliteobservation.net/2017/06/04/s...
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The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—the last arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, which limits strategic nuclear weapons—expires this Thursday.
To understand the implications of a world without New START, the Bulletin invited leading experts to share their views.
To understand the implications of a world without New START, the Bulletin invited leading experts to share their views.
The experts comment: New START expires, bringing both risks and opportunities
Experts share their concern about the no-rules, no-inspections period that opens when New START expires on Thursday. They also see an opportunity to adapt arms control to a multipolar world.
thebulletin.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—the last arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, which limits strategic nuclear weapons—expires this Thursday.
To understand the implications of a world without New START, the Bulletin invited leading experts to share their views.
To understand the implications of a world without New START, the Bulletin invited leading experts to share their views.
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My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5151/1
February 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5151/1
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📢 New blog by Paul Meyer - Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”?
Should this take the form of a NATO minus one, a UN minus permanent members of the Security Council, a revamped World Trade Organization (WTO)?... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/02/03/w...
Should this take the form of a NATO minus one, a UN minus permanent members of the Security Council, a revamped World Trade Organization (WTO)?... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/02/03/w...
February 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
📢 New blog by Paul Meyer - Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”?
Should this take the form of a NATO minus one, a UN minus permanent members of the Security Council, a revamped World Trade Organization (WTO)?... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/02/03/w...
Should this take the form of a NATO minus one, a UN minus permanent members of the Security Council, a revamped World Trade Organization (WTO)?... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/02/03/w...
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Le lt Moses Hazen et des miliciens arrivent à Ste-Anne-des-PaysBas (auj. Fredericton). Ils brûlent les 150 maisons, chapelles, granges &grain. Les Acadiens s’étaient enfuient mais sur le chemin de retour, ils voient une maison, ils tuent et scalpent 6 hommes. Les miliiens avaient l’ordre de «tuer
La destruction de Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas
À l’automne 1758, le village de Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas (sur le site de la ville actuelle de Fredericton) échappe à la destruction des établissements
www.acadienouvelle.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Le lt Moses Hazen et des miliciens arrivent à Ste-Anne-des-PaysBas (auj. Fredericton). Ils brûlent les 150 maisons, chapelles, granges &grain. Les Acadiens s’étaient enfuient mais sur le chemin de retour, ils voient une maison, ils tuent et scalpent 6 hommes. Les miliiens avaient l’ordre de «tuer
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Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.
Here's a photo of the Hughes Aircraft management team at the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air National Guard Base (now Space Force Base) in Colorado. The ADF operated the JUMPSEAT satellites and still operates their successors. Photo probably taken in 1976 or shortly afterwards.
January 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Here's a photo of the Hughes Aircraft management team at the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air National Guard Base (now Space Force Base) in Colorado. The ADF operated the JUMPSEAT satellites and still operates their successors. Photo probably taken in 1976 or shortly afterwards.
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The US National Reconnaisance Office has declasslifed the JUMPSEAT program, which had signals intelligence satellites in Molniya orbit starting in 1971.
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The US National Reconnaisance Office has declasslifed the JUMPSEAT program, which had signals intelligence satellites in Molniya orbit starting in 1971.
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Russia's decommissioned Olimp signals intelligence satellite, abandoned in the GEO graveyard orbit region in Oct 2025, has apparently disintegrated - possibly due to a debris hit since internal energy sources should have been vented when it was retired
Russia's secret Olymp-1 "stocking" satellite seemingly blows up in its graveyard orbit, a few hundred kilometers above heavily trafficked geostationary orbit
DETAILS: www.russianspaceweb.com/olymp.html#2...
DETAILS: www.russianspaceweb.com/olymp.html#2...
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Russia's decommissioned Olimp signals intelligence satellite, abandoned in the GEO graveyard orbit region in Oct 2025, has apparently disintegrated - possibly due to a debris hit since internal energy sources should have been vented when it was retired
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In early 1965, Seaborn’s fourth mission to Hanoi during Operation Bacon faced serious challenges. Washington’s “non substantive” message to Hanoi coupled with ongoing airstrike Operations Flaming Dart and Rolling Thunder threatened the viability of Bacon.
![[Canal crossing] Military Component Canadian Delegation to the International Control Commission in South Viet Nam](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ni64f2ku5wxqq2663r3xhtpi/bafkreicrw6vya73ldbwky2j6m7rkfh5lkguwr2su6onrodroghqcsp56ey@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 3:52 PM
In early 1965, Seaborn’s fourth mission to Hanoi during Operation Bacon faced serious challenges. Washington’s “non substantive” message to Hanoi coupled with ongoing airstrike Operations Flaming Dart and Rolling Thunder threatened the viability of Bacon.