A warning from history
The five "Cambridge Spies"
Thrilled to share below an article I've written on the Cambridge spy network using #MI5#BritishIntelligence records declassified earlier this month.
Britain's search for the five #CambridgeSpies was the most complex and long-lasting counterintelligence investigation in modern British history. It tormented British counterintelligence for the best part of 30 years. The newly released records show, for the first time, how members of the Soviet network slipped through British security – but also how close British intelligence came to identifying them at various points.
@thecipherbrief
Hope you find my article informative – if you have any views, I'd be interested to hear them
I'm also posting some of the key documents from the records below
https://t.co/18M9gAsrGs
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New article published in the journal Intelligence and National Security titled "The media and ‘Mrs Petrov’: press representations of Australia’s most famous spy" by Melanie Brand, available at: https://t.co/1vtSzxIdiM
"CIA’s evaluation of analytic quality: can it fortify tradecraft?" New article by Robert Levine & Roger Z. George, in the journal Intelligence and National Security at: https://t.co/Lw3605BP8W
Call for papers DUE 15 Sep 2024 Submission Deadline
iConference 2025 “Living in an AI-gorithmic world”
11-14 Mar 2025 Online Conference
18-22 Mar 2025 Live Conference @ Indiana University Bloomington
https://t.co/KVyaDDgxB9
"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): https://t.co/iioEgWk4vK
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: https://t.co/3J8BUkoF8N
Thank you to Mark Stout (@WWIPhD) for presenting his new book World War I & the Foundations of American Intelligence (@Kansas_Press, 2023) in my class on April 5.
Thanks also to @IAFIE1 for two copies of the book given as prizes to students who asked the best questions.
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? ⬇️
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.
Article published titled: “Learning Lessons: Intelligence, 9/11, and the Failure of Imagination.” Part of a H-Diplo pub on the Future of Intelligence inc. Richard Immerman, Richard Betts, Sarah-Jane Corke, Thomas Fingar, Genevieve Lester, and Amy Zegart https://t.co/hTpjgvYCKh
I published an article w/ @AbebeRorissa on the state of the IntelStudies literature. We analyzed approx. 6k of article citations. To see the results, first 50 are free downloads: https://t.co/RV0IVPxyYS
Saturday, December 9 is the IAFIE Intel Foundation Gala. There are still a few tickets left. Please join us for an evening of good music, food, and holiday cheer.
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.
https://t.co/qBY7JzQ7yI
Thank you, @kloosha 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.
https://t.co/qySQoCCJbw
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: https://t.co/Ufog20b6hX