📚 On Monday, we were delighted to host a full house for an insightful panel discussion and presentation of Damien Van Puyvelde’s “The DGSE and the Impact of Intelligence on Public Policy”.

🤗 Many thanks to the attendees for joining us and to Damien for his time!

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👉🏼 About the Kjetil Hatlebrekke Memorial Book Prize

Read more: kcsi.uk/kjetil-hatle...

✍🏼 Guttmann, Aviva. "Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign." Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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doi.org/10.1017/9781...

✍🏼 Riehle, Kevin P. "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service." Georgetown University Press, 2024.

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press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Rus...

✍🏼 Flamer, Netanel. "The Hamas Intelligence War against Israel. Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East." Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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doi.org/10.1017/9781....

✍🏼 Ward, Steven R. "Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History." Georgetown University Press, 2024.

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press.georgetown.edu/Book/Irans-M...

✍🏼 The 2025 Kjetil Hatlebrekke Memorial Book Prize Shortlist is here!

A great end to the “UK tour” at @kcsi.uk last night. My thanks to Celia Parker-Vincent for moderating and Jessi Gilchrist and Mike Goodman for organising. Also caught up with the wonderful @joemaiolo.bsky.social Nice to be back, spent a lot of time at the the Maughan Library writing this book.

Thank you for joining us and sharing your insights!

👉🏼 About the Polly Corrigan Book Prize

Read more: kcsi.uk/polly-corrig...

✍🏼 Mulley, Clare. "Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka." Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 2024.

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www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/clare...

✍🏼 Hubbard-Hall, Claire. "Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence." Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 2024.

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www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/clair...

✍🏼 Castro, Sara. "Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II." Georgetown University Press, 2024.

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press.georgetown.edu/Book/Mission...

✍🏼 Araújo, Sandra. "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74." Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025.

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www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spying-on...

✍🏼 The 2025 Polly Corrigan Book Prize Shortlist is here!

🇭🇺 The vote could challenge the EU’s most pro-Russian EU member state leader’s grip on power — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has remained in charge for 16 years.

Concerns raised over ex-Putin interpreter’s key role in monitoring Hungary vote Daria Boyarskaya coordinating OSCE mission overseeing vote in which pro-Moscow Viktor Orbán could lose power

✍🏼 Commentary by KCSI Visiting Fellow @andreisoldatov.bsky.social featured in an article by @theguardian.com on concerns raised over ex-Putin interpreter’s key role in monitoring Hungary vote.

👉🏼 Full article and Andrei’s comments: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Still some time left!

In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence.

In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence. To be considered, note this in your submission. If already applied, email to confirm candidacy.

Submit to SIH2026Conf@gmail.com by March 23

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🚨 The submissions deadline for the Annual Society for Intelligence History Conference has been extended until 23 March 2026.

Beyond intelligence failure: Identifying the principles of intelligence success in government and private sector risk intelligence The functions of government intelligence assessment and private sector risk intelligence have many similarities. The work in both sectors involves providing ‘customers’ of intelligence reports with...

🚨 New publication — “Beyond intelligence failure: Identifying the principles of intelligence success in government and private sector risk intelligence” by KCSI Member Dr @drceliap-v.bsky.social and Visiting Fellow Dorothea Gioe

🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👉🏼 With 2026 marking seventy-five years since the first public revelation of the Cambridge spies, this Curiosity project will therefore instigate a multidisciplinary analysis of the complicated legacies of the Cambridge spies across this full and entwined political, social, and cultural landscape.

🚨AHRC Curiosity Project Launch and Roundtable: ‘The Afterlives of Cambridge Spies’

🗓Wednesday, March 18, 2026
🕔17:00-18:30 GMT
📍Durham University (online option available)

🔗 Register here: forms.office.com/e/TxVEvgjvcn

👉🏼More about the project: kcsi.uk/the-afterliv...

Transnational repression in the UK: Joint Committee on Human Rights report In the UK, the term transnational repression is widely accepted to refer to instances of intimidation, violence and harassment by a state against people in another state. Evidence has suggested that v...

The UK Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee has published its report on transnational repression, an increasingly urgent issue in Europe.
Our article, “The Russian way in transnational repression” (via @kcsi.uk), is included in the “read more” section.
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/transnationa...

🚨 Congratulations to KCSI Co-Director Dr @drichterova.bsky.social as “Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries” (Georgetown University Press, 2025) wins the 50th Annual PROSE Award for Best European History Book awarded by the APP!

Trump’s Second Term and the Unravelling of India–US Ties Trump’s second term exposes the fragility of India–US ties and forces New Delhi to rethink strategic autonomy and alignment.

Thanks to Frontline, part of @thehindu.com, for carrying a piece I wrote on India in the Trump 2 era. Not easy to write given the pace at which events in India are evolving, viz. the US and EU.

See👇
frontline.thehindu.com/world-affair...

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The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy: Worshiping Trump and Setting…

🚨 New in KCSI Insights – "The 2026 U.S. Nation­al Defense Strat­e­gy: Wor­ship­ing Trump and Set­ting Clear Priorities" by Dr @dpoakley.bsky.social

🔗 Link: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend It started at a Washington cocktail party, when an Air Force general listened to a mountaineer describe the view from Mount Everest — and decided the

🚨 New publication – KCSI member Dr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social for @warontherocks.bsky.social on "How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend"

warontherocks.com/2026/02/how-...

How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend It started at a Washington cocktail party, when an Air Force general listened to a mountaineer describe the view from Mount Everest — and decided the

Thanks to @warontherocks.bsky.social for publishing my piece on a recent @nytimes.com article about a CIA/Indian intelligence operation that ended in the loss of a nuclear-powered surveillance device 👇
warontherocks.com/2026/02/how-...

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📚 Last chance!