
Simon Willmetts
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Cultural historian of secrecy and intelligence. @swillmetts.bsky.social
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Here is my latest article with Luca Trenta for the NatlSecurityArchive on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…





“While publicly claiming that its actions are meant to depoliticize U.S. intelligence agencies, the Trump administration has in fact politicized them further,” argue David Gioe and Michael Hayden. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…



“Trump is not a born intelligence consumer,” write David Gioe and Michael Hayden. “Trump seems to value intelligence only when it validates his own instinct; he does not look to it to challenge his beliefs or to help him consider different angles.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…










⁉️ Earlier this year we saw Blaise Metreweli selected as the next "C". But how do you appoint a Classified? In this Diplomacy and Statecraft article, we use archival material to study the process and the role of officials in picking "C". Free to read, 🧵 later tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
