The decision by the Australian Secret Intelligence Service to feature its director-general and operational officers on the Seize the Yay podcast marks a deliberate shift towards public transparency, an unprecedented move for Australia’s most secretive ...

The United States is in the middle of an intelligence war. Foreign adversaries, including their intelligence services and state-sponsored actors, employ increasingly sophisticated technologies and methods to access our most valuable innovations and secrets. The importance of implementing counterintelligence (CI) practices across all sectors of American society has never been greater. As our adversaries increasingly target non-governmental data environments, it has become essential to address security gaps in our nation’s critical industries, supply chains, and academic institutions. While the last two decades have seen the widespread adoption of cybersecurity protocols, malign actors continue to evolve their tactics to exploit both technical and human vulnerabilities. Counterintelligence can and should be a vital tool for corporations and academia which have become increasingly vulnerable targets for foreign espionage, theft, sabotage, and influence operations. By providing strategic insights and actionable practices, counterintelligence enables organizations to effectively and efficiently recognize and respond to threats that fall outside the scope of traditional cybersecurity. This study aims to explore how counterintelligence is perceived in civilian sectors – specifically corporate and academic institutions – in response to escalating intelligence threats. By surveying a diverse range of professionals in the academic and corporate sectors, this study assesses the awareness, attitudes, and institutional barriers to adopting CI practices and seeks to highlight key knowledge gaps and identify opportunities for targeted awareness, training, and investment. The results will inform policy and provide strategic recommendations for building a CI-conscious culture across sectors.

The United States is in the middle of an intelligence war. Foreign adversaries, including their intelligence services and state-sponsored actors, employ increasingly sophisticated technologies and methods to access our most valuable innovations and secrets. The importance of implementing counterintelligence (CI) practices across all sectors of American society has never been greater. As our adversaries increasingly target non-governmental data environments, it has become essential to address security gaps in our nation’s critical industries, supply chains, and academic institutions. While the last two decades have seen the widespread adoption of cybersecurity protocols, malign actors continue to evolve their tactics to exploit both technical and human vulnerabilities. Counterintelligence can and should be a vital tool for corporations and academia which have become increasingly vulnerable targets for foreign espionage, theft, sabotage, and influence operations. By providing strategic insights and actionable practices, counterintelligence enables organizations to effectively and efficiently recognize and respond to threats that fall outside the scope of traditional cybersecurity. This study aims to explore how counterintelligence is perceived in civilian sectors – specifically corporate and academic institutions – in response to escalating intelligence threats. By surveying a diverse range of professionals in the academic and corporate sectors, this study assesses the awareness, attitudes, and institutional barriers to adopting CI practices and seeks to highlight key knowledge gaps and identify opportunities for targeted awareness, training, and investment. The results will inform policy and provide strategic recommendations for building a CI-conscious culture across sectors.

11 India: Intelligence Agencies and Assassinations was published in Killing in the Name of the State on page 175.

Giovanni P. Marana, author of the letters in this volume was an Italian living in France in the seventeenth century. He wrote in the character of a Turk

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of intelligence systems in the ancient world, spanning Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, and the Indian and Chinese subcontinents. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, including the Arthashastra, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Roman administrative records, as well as modern scholarly analyses, the study examines the organisation, methods, and operational principles of early espionage and information management. Key aspects explored include the integration of intelligence into political and military hierarchies, institutionalisation and bureaucratic practices, multi-modal methods of information gathering, counterintelligence strategies, and the communication infrastructures that facilitated the flow of information across expansive territories. A comparative approach highlights both universal principles—such as verification, adaptation, and strategic use of information—and context-specific practices shaped by geography, political scale, and cultural norms. The study demonstrates that intelligence was a deliberate and systematic component of ancient statecraft, essential for maintaining political authority, military advantage, and administrative control. By synthesising evidence across diverse civilisations, this research illuminates the historical foundations of information management and the enduring relationship between knowledge and power in early complex societies.

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A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence explains the newest form of intelligence used by governments, commercial organizations, and individuals. Geospatial intelligence combines late 20th century historically derived ways of thinking and early 21st century technologies of GIS, GPS, digital imaging satellites and communications satellites to identify, measure, and analyze the current risk in the world. These ways of thinking have developed from military engineering, cartography, photointe