Engelsberg Ideas My current thoughts on Summits and Ukraine.

⁉️ 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…

Romania’s long return to the West | Mara Balasa engelsbergideas.com/notebook/roman…

The fall and rise of Central Europe | Morten Høi Jensen engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-fa…

Lost a bag in transit ✈️ but thrilled to be International Assoc for Intelligence Education in beautiful Aranjuez, Spain (in shorts) 😅

Josephine Baker spied for France 🇫🇷 against the Axis- but what if her most secret operation was against an ally? 🇬🇧 This essay uses intelligence records to trace a desperate effort to counter British subversion and save the French Empire. Engelsberg Ideas engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jose…

America’s addiction to intrigue | Jeff Rogg engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ameri…

Courage behind enemy lines 🇫🇷 Major Guy Biéler of Montreal used his knowledge of France to lead SOE sabotage missions for 15 months. Captured in Jan 1944, executed that Sept. His work helped pave the way for D-Day. #CWMCollections #CanadaRemembers

I explore need-to-know again in a post at siginthistorian.blogspot.com looking at an Official Secrets Act case in which a clear Sigint connection was ignored because the investigators had no idea it existed.

See below for the agenda for the upcoming Oxford Intelligence Conference in November:

Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn. Creating a quagmire in Palestine | Jack Dickens engelsbergideas.com/notebook/creat…

Glad to join the London Defence Conference Washington Forum 2025 🇬🇧🇺🇸 A day of cutting-edge insight on “Global Competition: Security from the Seabed to Space”.

New event this Friday, with Cambridge Intelligence Seminar! Dr Oleh Stupak, ‘Managing cybersecurity: Data access & protection’ 📅 Fri 17th Oct, 17:30-19:00 🗺️ Online ✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/3KKHUlP

If you're an The Economist subscriber, don't forget to tune into my interview with Mark Rutte at 1pm ET / 6pm UK this afternoon. It's the first in our new monthly series, Inside Defence. economist.com/insider/inside…

Viking has acquired Our Man in Prague by Daniela Richterova, “the story of one of MI6’s greatest, and least known, triumphs behind the Iron Curtain”.  thebookseller.com/rights/viking-…

This is an incredible true 🤬story and adds a great deal to our understanding of the history of “spying on friends.” 😉 Well done to Dr Matthew Hefler for digging through the intel archives to reveal this. Hey Spycraft Entertainment , this has you written all over it….

Outstanding event. World class speakers, attendees and organizers. Honored to have been a part of this.

This by CIA Middle East veteran and The Crisis Room Podcast co-host Marc Polymeropoulos is full of insight 👇🏻