What was wrong with Canada?

From March 8, 1974.

#CIA #NixonAdministration #intelligence #intelhist

Many thanks to @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the great questions and being a wonderful host for an NBN interview about my book that takes a broad look at the far-flung American #intelligence efforts during World War I. #FWW #intelhist #milhist

U.S. Intelligence Agencies Have Not Aged Well A review of Jeffrey P. Rogg, “The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence” (Oxford University Press, 2025).

It was a pleasure to review Jeffrey Rogg's book "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" for @lawfaremedia.org. There is much in it to chew on and debate and the topic, civil-intelligence relations, is of great and growing importance. #intelligence #intelhist

This looks really good. Excited to read it. #intelhist #ColdWar #milhist

Heaven forbid the NSA museum should honor NSA trailblazers some of whom were women or minorities. What has happened at the National Cryptologic Museum is disgraceful. That said, I probably should have expected it. #intelhist

That piece led me to a fascinating bit of video of an interview with Guy Burgess that I'd never known existed. There is so much going on in this interview. #intelhist

Those are my redactions, by the way, just to focus attention on the key bit. #intelhist #CIA #intelligence

The cover of Steve R. Ward's book, "Iran's Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History."

Here's the cover, as that link didn't give it.
#intelhist

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Very cool! In a previous life I worked for a year for a guy who was in OSS X-2. After the war, he went (back to?) Harvard to finish is degree and then got a Ph.D. in Romance languages. Not a historian, though. Went on to a 50-ish year career at CIA. #intelhist

#SpyGems: #CisarskeLazne bldg @KarlovyVaryCZ a.k.a. #CasinoRoyale where, in 1 night, #Bond loses all HMG allowance in poker, takes #CIA loan, kills 2 assassins, survives poisoning attempt &tries to save kidnapped sidekick. All while thinking he is in Montenegro. What a night! #intelhist #skystorians

How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence Osama bin Laden helped plan the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. To find him, the U.S. government had to put its best people on the job. Along with their

NSA has launched a podcast: "No Such Podcast." Their first episode is "How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence." #intelhist #terrorism #intelligence #SIGINT

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How Putin is Reviving Soviet Sabotage Doctrine - War on the Rocks

Great chatting to Erin O'Brien about my @warontherocks.bsky.social piece on #Soviet #sabotage #doctrine & what Czech security and intelligence archives can tell us about the #ColdWar:

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@kcsi.uk @kcl.ac.uk #skystorians #intelhist #milhist

I’m delighted that King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence has joined Bluesky! They’ve also provided a really useful list of many of the intelligence historians who have accounts here. Give them all a follow! #intelhist #milhist #skystorians

The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? - War on the Rocks Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of

"Thanks to...discoveries in the Czech Security Service Archive, we are now able to reconstruct the doctrine that informed the Soviet Bloc’s way of sabotage...and draw parallels with the...suspected sabotage attacks...in Europe and the US since the Russian invasion of Ukraine." #intelhist
#Russia

Intelligence History Book Prize 2024 We are delighted to announce our call for nominations for the Intelligence History Book Prize 2024. The prize is worth € 1,000 and will be awarded by the International Intelligence History Associat…

Intelligence History Book Prize 2024! 1000 Euro prize from the International Intelligence History Association for the best intelligence history book published between January 1, 2022 and August 25, 2024. AFAIK the first ever #intelhist book prize.
#skystorians #19thCentury #fwwhist #WWII #ColdWar

The spy who kept notes In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed upon hundreds of people who held progressive v...

This sounds like an interesting new book on Canadian #intelligence history. A review of Dennis Gruending's "A Communist for the RCMP: The Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant." Not a lot gets published on Canadian intel history so I'm glad to see this.

#sykstorians #Canada #intelhist

Canadian Intelligence History at the Crossroads - October 3-4, 2024 - CASIS-ACERS Registration is now open! Additional information can be found here: https://casis-acers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canadian-Intelligence-History-at-the-Crossroads.pdf

Registration is now open for the "Canadian Intelligence History at the Crossroads: Historical Reflections on the Occasion of #CSIS' 40th Anniversary" conference. It will be in October in Ottawa.
#intelhist #intelligence #ColdWar

Polly Corrigan Book Prize - 2024 Call for Nominations ( The 2024 Polly Corrigan Book Prize) The Polly Corrigan Book Prize is a biennial award sponsored by The King’s Centre for Study of…

Call for nominations for the 2024 Polly Corrigan Book Prize. The prize, offered by King's College London's Centre for the Study of Intelligence, recognizes scholarship in the realm of intelligence and security written by female scholars or about women. #intelligence #skystorians #intelhist

But I knew that scientific policing was coming along in that same period and might have contributed, as well. I'm trying to see if these are the same or distinct inputs into the development of domestic surveillance. 2/2 #intelhist

CIA in a summary description of a 1976 study on the use of new analytic techniques (new to the Intelligence Community, that is) at CIA, DIA, and INR. #polisky #intelligence #intelhist

Upcoming BCISS conference: Knock in the Night 26-27 June (online) The Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS) is hosting a two-day, online conference: Knock in the Night: Intelligence, Security andSpecial Services in Authorita...

Upcoming conference: "Knock in the Night: Intelligence, Security and Special Services in Authoritarian States." The conference is put on by the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies and it runs online June 26 and 27. (Nb: all times are UK time.)
#intelligence #intelhist #intelsky

I've been doing research on memoirs of American #intelligence veterans of #WWI. One thing I've noticed is that though there was a vast domestic intel/surveillance effort during the war almost nobody wrote memoirs about it. I think this tells us something.
#FWWHist #IntelHist #FWW

The Intelligence Studies Bibliography. An *outstanding* resource listing books, articles, podcasts, conferences, etc. Includes #intelhist. It's the work of Yusuf Ali Ozkan of Imperial College London and King's College London who, sadly, is not on Bluesky.
#polisky #FWWhist #WWII #ColdWar #19thC