My latest research. Cold War Project The Wilson Center "Filip Kovacevic examines a remarkable document that demonstrates what kept senior Soviet counterintel officials awake at night in the first decade of the Cold War." wilsoncenter.org/publication/in…

New article published in the journal Intelligence and National Security titled "Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold war Europe" by Michael Jonsson available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Review article titled "The Evolution of African Intelligence Cultures" by R. Gerald Hughes & Martin Plaut and published in the journal Intelligence and National Security, available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you, Elena Grossfeld for today's super presentation on the CIA and Soviet political jokes. Next up on 12/5 is Jimmy Burns, OBE, on Walter Bell's (CMG & US Medal of Freedom) work with agents of influence & damage limitation over the Cambridge 5 affair. intelligencehistory.org/event-details/…

When & how did U.S. intel get the organizational chart of Stalin's SMERSH? #CIA-released doc in August 2023 shows that Soviet intel defector Anatoly Granovsky provided the organizational chart of SMERSH during his interrogation in October 1946. cia.gov/readingroom/do…

New issue of IJIC out now! tandfonline.com/toc/ujic20/cur…

My latest article on how smaller states use intelligence liaison relationships to influence U.S. policy is out. Intl Jrnl of Intelligence & CounterIntelligence tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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I published an article w/ Abebe Rorissa on the state of the IntelStudies literature. We analyzed approx. 6k of article citations. To see the results, first 50 are free downloads: tandfonline.com/eprint/YC7HB7N…

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In recognition of our many fabulous members around the globe, we have changed our name. We are now the Society for Intelligence History (SIH). Thank you so much for your support and engagement. We look forward to expanded engagement with intel historians worldwide.

Digital archives are an indispensable teaching tool for classes in intelligence studies. One of the assignments in my Intelligence & Global Security class is to research primary sources in digital archives. What other digital archives in English can be added to this list? ⬇️

Very pleased to have been elected as Vice Chair of the International Association for Intelligence Education (International Assoc for Intelligence Education) Europe Chapter Board. Looking forward to working with my newly elected fellow board members! iafieeurope.org

Thank you to Mark Stout (Mark Stout is on Bluesky) for presenting his new book World War I & the Foundations of American Intelligence (Univ Press of Kansas, 2023) in my class on April 5. Thanks also to International Assoc for Intelligence Education for two copies of the book given as prizes to students who asked the best questions.

IAFIE’s annual conference is virtual this year from June 5-7! Please join us for a fascinating program: iafie.org/iafie_virtual_…

Open access: Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–2024 by Philip H.J. Davies, in the journal Intelligence and National Security, here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022"...by Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, Steven Wagner, Neveen Shaaban Abdalla & Philip H. J. Davies, and published in the journal Intelligence & National Security (open access, free): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A sneak peek for all you fans of spies and spy history! Out May 1, 2025 with Oxford Academic: