Honored to step into the role of Treasurer for Society for Intelligence History!

Thanks to everyone for your trust and support. Here's to a successful term! @socintelhist.bsky.social

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Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.

The intelligence cycle needs to be updated. We need an additional point after dissemination where the administration fires someone for providing intelligence, which contradicts the bombastic pronouncements of POTUS. #IntelStudies

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Hi #intelstudies #spyhistory folk. Does anybody have any suggestions for online sources regarding the OSS and David KE Bruce?

Female labour at Bletchley Park: reality and (romantic) fiction The growing importance of Bletchley Park in the cultural memory of Britain’s Second World War – its deployment by political and media commentators as a symbol of British exceptionalism – has been n...

In the last decade, Bletchley Park has become the site of dozens of works of romantic fiction. Dr Thomas Knowles and I wrote about it here.

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A case study in pathological lying: how much did Kim Philby see of or interact with Donald Maclean after Maclean's recruitment in 1934?

This should be a simple question. But Philby ensures it is anything but. A quick chronology.

KV 2/4737, Conversation No. 2 with Kim Philby, 9 January 1963, p. 8.

Kim Philby's contribution to tradecraft, don't live near the formidable Jane Archer. KV 2/4737, second interrogation of Kim Philby, 9 January 1963.

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National Archives, Kew, KV 2/4705, Arthur Martin notes on his interrogation of Anthony Blunt, 27.4.64.

Confirmation of what has been suspected/known for a long time, the Cambridge "Ring of Five" was a Soviet construction, that the actual members did not recognise it as such. As far as Blunt was concerned a Ring should all know about each other, Cairncross did not. KV 2/4705
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KV 2/4679, a wiretap transcript from John Cairncross to "Karl", 4 January 1952, discussing the Missing Diplomats (Burgess and Maclean).

A case-study in gazing into a psychological mirror. From the file MI5 files released to the National Archive today. KV 2/4679, a wiretap transcript of John Cairncross, 4 January 1952, discussing the Burgess and Maclean.

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Hi #IntelStudies, History and #UKHE folk generally.

What do you think about text books/general histories in terms of original research? How much archival stuff is needed to make it worth doing, if any? Does it need to be evenly distributed or can some chapters be primary heavy & others less so?

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