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“Speak plainly!” Russian President Vladimir Putin snapped at his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, at a televised security council meeting on the eve of his shambolic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Naryshkin was visibly nervous. Once he had finally stammered out his support for recognizing the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states—the words Putin was waiting for—he was abruptly told to sit down, like an unprepared pupil flubbing an oral exam.

The truth may be out there, but the public rarely gets to see it.

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian intelligence operations have shifted toward a mass-scale approach, focusing on sabotage, intelligence collection, and influence efforts.

Exploding weapons factories, assassination plots and fake news: Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war campaign against the West has stepped up several notches since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In early April, Donald Trump dismissed the head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Timothy Haugh, along with his deputy, following a meeting with a far-right activist who raised suspicions about the loyalty of several members of the president’s administration. This is not the first intelligence-related scandal so far during Trump’s current term. The most prominent incident involved a high-level discussion conducted via Signal chat — which, by accident, included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. These episodes not only hinder the functioning of the U.S. intelligence community but also undermine its credibility on the global stage. Intelligence sharing among allies is a vital instrument for gaining political and military advantage, but without mutual trust, such cooperation is impossible. Nonetheless, Western intelligence agencies still have an interest in maintaining ties with their U.S. counterparts — even under Trump — writes David Gioe, a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and a former CIA analyst and operations officer.

21 April 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-34 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Sarah-Jane Corke Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…

Abstract. Why do some intelligence warning processes succeed in anticipating surprise while others fail? This article challenges the binary perspective on

Society for Intelligence History | 231 followers on LinkedIn. Formerly known as the North American Society for Intelligence History (NASIH), the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) is a membership ...

Professor Michael Goodman has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in its latest round of appointments.

In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert operation was quietly revving into gear. Second-hand Chryslers and a