BCISS has now set up a blog to discuss, deliberate and reflect upon intelligence affairs, and provide commentary on events and our research. It's first item is on the recent apparent warning failure in Israel. intelligencestudiesreview.blog

OK, so back in '22 I argued in RUSI Commentary (rusi.org/explore-our-re…) that Vladimir Vladimirovich and his pals were pining for the their Soviet security state salad days. But this is getting silly. Not even absurd. Just silly.

Everyone's exercised about sub-threshold/grey zone activities in state-sponsored hybrid warfare. Sabotage & subversion - activities delivered or enabled by intelligence agencies. Shouldn't counterintelligence play a bigger role in counter-HW discussion? journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw…

Scratch one MAINSTAY orbit. Time to go COOT hunting.... newsweek.com/russia-a50-spy…

Never mind Star Wars. Dickie Cruyer is gone. If you remember you know. German Desk will never be the same. news.sky.com/story/star-war…

D'oh!

Stuff just keeps catching fire, blowing up, going down. Suspects with snow on their boots? Sabotage is back. BCISS has produced a 'seminar' of papers on counter sabotage on our blog ISR, start here: intelligencestudiesreview.blog/2024/05/04/sup…

Bit like accusing a fish of swimming...

When folk were asking Farage why he was running in the election I said to my wife - in jest - 'because his SVR case officer told him to?' Clearly it's not just me....

Wrong picture wrong agency. As usual. Really there's no excuse for getting basics like this wrong in 2024.