Mark Perch
@perchmk.bsky.social
Swiss 🇨🇭, but not neutral. Between Geneva and Zurich. Applied security policy (effects-oriented). 🇺🇦
“It’s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with him?” - John le Carré
“It’s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with him?” - John le Carré
Re Andor: Are we just going to to ignore the blatant intelligence failure of imperial intel/sec agencies? BBY1 and neither the ISB nor ‘Military Intelligence’ had a clue about Yavin. Despite the fact that the rebels had a huge intake of ppl, a bad vetting process and let ppl leave all the time.
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Re Andor: Are we just going to to ignore the blatant intelligence failure of imperial intel/sec agencies? BBY1 and neither the ISB nor ‘Military Intelligence’ had a clue about Yavin. Despite the fact that the rebels had a huge intake of ppl, a bad vetting process and let ppl leave all the time.
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The Hybrid War at Sea: Recently I was interviewed for the podcast @secretsandspies.bsky.social about Russian spy
operations in the #BalticSea and #NorthSea - and about the increasing threat of sabotage on critical undersea infrastructure: open.spotify.com/episode/7EYQ... #Estlink1 #Russia
operations in the #BalticSea and #NorthSea - and about the increasing threat of sabotage on critical undersea infrastructure: open.spotify.com/episode/7EYQ... #Estlink1 #Russia
S9 Ep15: Russian Spy Ships and undersea cables with Florian Flade
Secrets and Spies - A Spy & Geopolitics Podcast · Episode
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December 26, 2024 at 11:48 AM
The Hybrid War at Sea: Recently I was interviewed for the podcast @secretsandspies.bsky.social about Russian spy
operations in the #BalticSea and #NorthSea - and about the increasing threat of sabotage on critical undersea infrastructure: open.spotify.com/episode/7EYQ... #Estlink1 #Russia
operations in the #BalticSea and #NorthSea - and about the increasing threat of sabotage on critical undersea infrastructure: open.spotify.com/episode/7EYQ... #Estlink1 #Russia
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“‘If I were sitting in Yasenevo or Lubyanka and targeting Americans, I would be rubbing my hands with glee,’ said Paul Kolbe [former chief of CIA’s Russia House]…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk
The Trump administration is negotiating the return of more Russian diplomats to the United States. Some are likely to be spies.
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March 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“‘If I were sitting in Yasenevo or Lubyanka and targeting Americans, I would be rubbing my hands with glee,’ said Paul Kolbe [former chief of CIA’s Russia House]…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
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The Russian UN Mission in Vienna serves as one of Europe’s most important espionage hubs. A #SIGINT station there specifically targets data from Western communication satellites. SES-5 from SES Luxembourg is also affected 1/6 datum.at/im-satellite...
Im Satellitenkrieg – DATUM
Die russische UN-Botschaft in der Wiener Donaustadt ist eine der größten Spionagestationen Europas. Unser Autor beobachtet sie seit Jahren und hat dabei dokumentiert: Die Satelliten des Kreml kommen ...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Russian UN Mission in Vienna serves as one of Europe’s most important espionage hubs. A #SIGINT station there specifically targets data from Western communication satellites. SES-5 from SES Luxembourg is also affected 1/6 datum.at/im-satellite...
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#MICE sums up the key reasons people commit treason or turn into insider threats: #Money for financial gain, #Ideology driven by beliefs, #Compromise through blackmail, and #Ego, whether for power, recognition, or revenge www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
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March 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#MICE sums up the key reasons people commit treason or turn into insider threats: #Money for financial gain, #Ideology driven by beliefs, #Compromise through blackmail, and #Ego, whether for power, recognition, or revenge www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia
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February 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sabotage, assassinations & infiltration threaten Germany’s defense industry, infrastructure & politics. Seen as NATO’s weak link, Germany is now a prime target for Russian covert ops. Putin's sabotage unit, the Special Tasks Department #SSD 1/3 www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Exclusive | A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West
The Department of Special Tasks has brought together veterans of the Kremlin’s most daring clandestine operations to carry out assassination attempts and sabotage overseas.
www.wsj.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Sabotage, assassinations & infiltration threaten Germany’s defense industry, infrastructure & politics. Seen as NATO’s weak link, Germany is now a prime target for Russian covert ops. Putin's sabotage unit, the Special Tasks Department #SSD 1/3 www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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I servizi segreti russi - conferme anche dal Wsj - hanno creato nel 2023 un Dipartimento per le missioni speciali, diretto da Andrei Averyanov, vice Ivan Kasyanenko, per operazioni segrete contro l'Occidente (tra cui un tentativo di assassinio dell'ad di Rheinmetall) che ha assorbito l’ex 29155
February 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I servizi segreti russi - conferme anche dal Wsj - hanno creato nel 2023 un Dipartimento per le missioni speciali, diretto da Andrei Averyanov, vice Ivan Kasyanenko, per operazioni segrete contro l'Occidente (tra cui un tentativo di assassinio dell'ad di Rheinmetall) che ha assorbito l’ex 29155
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Change of government in Austria: „The FPÖ was a gateway for Russian intelligence gathering […] Russia will continue to exploit these connections”
"Die FPÖ war ein Einfallstor für russische nachrichtendienstliche Informationsgewinnung. [...] Russland wird diese Verbindungen weiterhin nutzen" www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Ex-BVT-Chef Gridling warnt: "Russland wird Verbindungen zur FPÖ nutzen"
Für den früheren Chef des Verfassungsschutzes ist die FPÖ "ohne Zweifel" jene Partei, die am meisten in Russlandspionage verwickelt ist. Das Wahlergebnis müsse man jedoch akzeptieren
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January 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Change of government in Austria: „The FPÖ was a gateway for Russian intelligence gathering […] Russia will continue to exploit these connections”
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New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @theins.press has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. Unit 29155 was behind this operation.
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Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war
The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, spent years financing terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and coalition forces. An investigation by The Insider has not only confirmed the ex...
theins.press
January 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @theins.press has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. Unit 29155 was behind this operation.
theins.press/en/politics/...
theins.press/en/politics/...
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🚁🏆 GUR the first in the world to destroy an air target using a Magura V5 naval drone. During the battle in the Black Sea and Crimea, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by R-73 “SeeDragon” missiles.
💥 Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.
💥 Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.
December 31, 2024 at 8:38 AM
🚁🏆 GUR the first in the world to destroy an air target using a Magura V5 naval drone. During the battle in the Black Sea and Crimea, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by R-73 “SeeDragon” missiles.
💥 Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.
💥 Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.
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The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
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The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction.
www.wsj.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM
The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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'Nick Harkaway has honoured John le Carré with a work of real attention and affection, as good as most of his father's books, and better than several. It is heartening to know that there might be more.' – Times Literary Supplement
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
An affectionate return to le Carré’s best-loved character
John le Carré’s most famous creation, the British spy George Smiley, was conceived as a complete antithesis to James Bond – being unsexy, middle-aged,
www.the-tls.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 9:10 AM
'Nick Harkaway has honoured John le Carré with a work of real attention and affection, as good as most of his father's books, and better than several. It is heartening to know that there might be more.' – Times Literary Supplement
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
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December is GRU month at @theins.press. I mean, every month more or less is—but this month is especially so. Several big investigations dropping. All of them long in the works.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:55 AM
December is GRU month at @theins.press. I mean, every month more or less is—but this month is especially so. Several big investigations dropping. All of them long in the works.
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The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under the Four Powers Agreement, Det A was on twenty four hour standby in Berlin in the event that the USSR
November 26, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under the Four Powers Agreement, Det A was on twenty four hour standby in Berlin in the event that the USSR
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Russia is conducting active spy operations on the European continent. At various levels and with many means. This is shown in a recent report by Radio Tele Suisse and SRF on the espionage activities of the Russian mission in Geneva in Switzerland. But there's more 1/5
November 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Russia is conducting active spy operations on the European continent. At various levels and with many means. This is shown in a recent report by Radio Tele Suisse and SRF on the espionage activities of the Russian mission in Geneva in Switzerland. But there's more 1/5
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CISA and the FBI confirmed that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
US govt officials’ communications compromised in recent telecom hack
CISA and the FBI confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers' networks.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:36 PM
CISA and the FBI confirmed that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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🇪🇺🚫 EU countries have started compiling a 15th round of Russia sanctions, despite a potential U-turn in US foreign policy, EUobserver
The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.
The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.
November 12, 2024 at 11:27 AM
🇪🇺🚫 EU countries have started compiling a 15th round of Russia sanctions, despite a potential U-turn in US foreign policy, EUobserver
The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.
The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.
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⚡️ NATO chief Mark Rutte: We must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight. We need to raise the cost for Putin and his enabling authoritarian friends by providing Ukraine with the support it needs to change the trajectory of the conflict.
📹: NATO News
📹: NATO News
November 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
⚡️ NATO chief Mark Rutte: We must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight. We need to raise the cost for Putin and his enabling authoritarian friends by providing Ukraine with the support it needs to change the trajectory of the conflict.
📹: NATO News
📹: NATO News
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X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.
November 12, 2024 at 12:29 AM
X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.
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Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: 'I believe that all telecoms of our armed forces but also police, intel services are intercepted by 🇷🇺 foreign #SVR and military intel #GRU and i am not sure whether #NATO's encryption technologies are sufficiently secure‘ www.swr.de/swr1/swr1leu...
April 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: 'I believe that all telecoms of our armed forces but also police, intel services are intercepted by 🇷🇺 foreign #SVR and military intel #GRU and i am not sure whether #NATO's encryption technologies are sufficiently secure‘ www.swr.de/swr1/swr1leu...
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À Genève : Agressions aux Hôpitaux Universitaires: les soignants ne sont pas des punching-balls
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L’éditorial: agressions à l’hôpital – Les soignants ne sont pas des punching-balls
Les violences aux HUG ne cessent d’augmenter depuis plusieurs années. Syndicats et collaborateurs s’inquiètent.
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March 30, 2024 at 12:41 PM
À Genève : Agressions aux Hôpitaux Universitaires: les soignants ne sont pas des punching-balls
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