M&M

writer, champion for logical thinking, master of arts degree in journalism, have worked as a daily news journalist, research editor, medical book/journal writer

[M&M @drawone1]

Gumby to the rescue #GOPDebate https://t.co/3FKw9Vxds5

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

I don’t know what Triscuits cost because I don’t eat Triscuits. But maybe today would be a great day to stop eating Triscuits because they’re made with seed oils. There’s much better health alternatives.. but geez, that’s a lot for a box of crackers. That’ll hurt you.

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

The crowd has their phones.

[Bill Fairclough (aka #JJ & #EdwardBurlington) @BurlingtonFiles]

As usual towards the end of the week we have summarized ten of the most read and noteworthy espionage-related news articles over the past seven days. Each summary includes a heading, source, summary, and full link which we have tested. We hope you find this post interesting and helpful.

WEEKLY ESPIONAGE REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING Friday 5 June 2026 at 08.15am London UK Time

1. Five Eyes Warns Of Chinese Online Spy Recruitment
Source: Reuters
Summary: The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued an unusual joint warning that Chinese intelligence services are using professional networking and recruitment platforms to identify and recruit individuals with access to sensitive government, military and commercial information.
Full Link: [https://t.co/gExMnMo6L6](https://t.co/gExMnMo6L6) ([Reuters][1])

2. US And Allies Issue Rare Joint Warning About China
Source: The Washington Post
Summary: Intelligence agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand warned that China is using fake online profiles and employment opportunities to target military officers, intelligence personnel and others with access to classified information.
Full Link: [https://t.co/1oZ3OHprJ0](https://t.co/1oZ3OHprJ0) ([The Washington Post][2])

3. Chinese Spies Allegedly Using LinkedIn And Job Sites
Source: New York Post
Summary: Western intelligence agencies warned that Chinese operatives are exploiting LinkedIn, Indeed, Upwork and similar platforms to recruit potential intelligence sources and obtain access to sensitive information.
Full Link: [https://t.co/sw9N5s5N4W](https://t.co/sw9N5s5N4W) ([New York Post][3])

4. Top US Intelligence Agencies In Dispute Over Responsibilities
Source: Reuters
Summary: Reports emerged of significant friction between the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with disputes affecting intelligence assessments and inter agency cooperation on national security matters.
Full Link: [https://t.co/o2naxKrpDE](https://t.co/o2naxKrpDE) ([GMA Network][4])

5. GCHQ Warns Russia Is Relentlessly Targeting Britain
Source: Sky News
Summary: GCHQ Director Anne Keast Butler warned that Russia continues to target British infrastructure, democratic institutions, supply chains and public confidence through cyber operations and other hostile activities.
Full Link: [https://t.co/MK9HFzVPFQ](https://t.co/MK9HFzVPFQ) ([Sky News][5])

6. Russia Targeting UK Infrastructure And Democracy
Source: The Guardian
Summary: The head of GCHQ stated that Russia is persistently targeting critical British infrastructure and democratic processes while the UK also faces growing technological challenges from China.
Full Link: [https://t.co/UjubHLuRsR](https://t.co/UjubHLuRsR) ([The Guardian][6])

7. Death Of Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger
Source: Associated Press
Summary: Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger died aged 62. Tributes highlighted his leadership of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service during a period marked by Russian aggression, terrorism threats and major geopolitical challenges.
Full Link: [https://t.co/K81DFdENPG](https://t.co/K81DFdENPG) ([AP News][7])

8. Obituary Of Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger
Source: The Guardian
Summary: A detailed review of the career of Sir Alex Younger examined his role in modernising MI6, strengthening cooperation with MI5 and managing intelligence challenges involving Russia and international terrorism.
Full Link: [https://t.co/RP6Lh9BmdM](https://t.co/RP6Lh9BmdM) ([The Guardian][8])

9. Russian And Iranian Recruitment Of Teenagers For Espionage And Sabotage
Source: Financial Times
Summary: Investigators across Europe reported increasing use of online platforms by Russian and Iranian linked networks to recruit teenagers for espionage, reconnaissance, sabotage and influence operations.
Full Link: [https://t.co/GUA2CyCWrE](https://t.co/GUA2CyCWrE) ([Financial Times][9])

10. Five Eyes Security Services Highlight Chinese Espionage Threat
Source: Reuters
Summary: Security agencies from the Five Eyes alliance released detailed guidance warning that Chinese military intelligence services are aggressively seeking privileged political, military and economic information through covert online recruitment techniques.
Full Link: [https://t.co/TzPcI8lO4U](https://t.co/TzPcI8lO4U) ([https://t.co/Ow7IYIr5Hh][10])

If you want to know more about Bill Fairclough, the “Career Spy”, the Intelligence Agency FaireSansDire, MI6’s Pemberton’s People and TheBurlingtonFiles visit our advert-free website at https://t.co/Z3zlOFCI2a. It's a bit like reading "Tales of The Unexpected". The website is reminiscent of an espionage museum without an admission fee ... and no adverts. You will soon be immersed in a whole new world which you won't want to exit.

If you’ve got time, have a look at the book Beyond Enkription, the first of six espionage novels in TheBurlingtonFiles series based on Bill Fairclough’s life. It's available from most posh bookshops. It's free at most libraries, free on Borrowbox and at Amazon the eBook is inexpensive and may be free for some subscribers. It’s a noir fact based spy thriller that may shock you.

What is interesting is that this book is apparently mandatory reading in some countries’ intelligence agencies' induction programs. Why? Maybe because the book is not only realistic but has been heralded by those who should know as “being up there with My Silent War by Kim Philby and No Other Choice by George Blake”.

It is an enthralling read as long as you don’t expect fictional agents like Ian Fleming's incredible 007 to save the world or John le Carré’s couch potato yet illustrious Smiley to send you to sleep with his delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots! If you have any questions please feel free to ask them.

Best wishes - all at TheBurlingtonFiles

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel & its lobby are attempting a complete takeover of our gov thru a myriad of bills.

One bill virtually no one is talking about is @SenTomCotton’s Section 622, of the FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act which locks US into permanent unbreakable intel entanglement with Israel

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

NY Times reports today that Israeli Shin Bet agents "were discovered to have tried to plant a listening device in a Secret Service vehicle"

This confirms my reporting from September 2025

I was told that Secret Service vehicle was one which would respond to an emergency involving the president

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel Lobby Bought Lawmakers are Facilitating a Whole-of-Government Takeover by Israel.

Get the full picture so you understand what’s happening.

A Whole-of-Government entrenchment of Israeli influence is advancing through coordinated legislation that subordinates U.S. intelligence, defense, and foreign policy priorities to Tel Aviv’s agenda, at the expense of American sovereignty, interests and taxpayers.

Section 622 of the Senate’s FY27 Intelligence Authorization “enhances U.S.-Israel intelligence sharing” by further embedding a foreign power into America’s most sensitive national security apparatus and makes it nearly impossible to disentangle U.S. intelligence from Israel.
Sponsored by: @SenTomCotton

H. Res. 1339 endorses Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to shift the relationship from U.S. aid to “mutual” defense cooperation and joint investment, praising joint operations against Iran while pushing deeper entanglement.
Sponsored by: @RepStutzman @RepAbeHamadeh

Section 224 of the FY27 NDAA establishes a U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, tasking the Pentagon with synchronizing bilateral research, development, testing, and industrial integration across critical domains like AI, counter-drones, cyber, directed energy, and missile defense, explicitly prioritizing Israeli-origin technologies for integration into U.S. systems and programs of record.
Sponsored by: @RepMikeRogersAL @RepAdamSmith

The U.S.-Israel FUTURES Act (H.R. 7540 / S. 3855) formalizes this initiative with $150 million authorized, creating frameworks for joint ventures, co-production, and rapid fielding of Israeli tech into the U.S. military.
Sponsored by: @RepRonnyJackson @RepDonDavis @SenGillibrand @SenTedBuddNC

The U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R. 1229 / S. 554) mandates a Defense Innovation Unit office in Israel, cooperative counter-unmanned systems programs, RDT&E on emerging technologies like AI and robotics, and efforts to fold Israel into the U.S. national technology and industrial base (NTIB) alongside allies like the UK and Australia.
Sponsored by: @RepJoeWilson @DonaldNorcross @SenDanSullivan @SenGaryPeters

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

P*ssed off father addresses township board over the cover up of an accident where his wife his son were hit by the son of a friend of the chief of police.

This father is demanding accountability at a North Huntingdon Township Board of Commissioners meeting, but the backstory behind this confrontation is a chilling look at a family's fight against small-town corruption.

​On July 7, 2024, Kathleen Morcheid was driving with her 13-month-old son, Jordan, when a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Nolan Patrick Mullen crossed the center line, striking them nearly head-on. Accident reconstruction experts later testified that Mullen was flying at 90 MPH in a 35 MPH zone just five seconds before the collision.

​While the toddler miraculously survived without major injuries, Kathleen suffered life-altering harm, including a severe traumatic brain injury and permanent physical tremors that stripped her of her career as a nurse.

​Nicholas Carrozza, the child’s father seen at the podium, quickly uncovered what he alleges is a deep-seated conflict of interest. Local critics and public complaints allege that Mullen’s father was close personal friends with high-ranking local police officials.

Carrozza claims responding officers failed to perform standard on-scene sobriety testing, ignored witnesses who saw the driver laughing after the crash, and systematically stonewalled his family's Right-to-Know requests for body camera footage and basic police reports.

​The systemic frustration peaked when the District Attorney’s office offered Mullen a lenient plea deal—dismissing the felony chargesin exchange for probation and home electronic monitoring.

Fortunately, a Westmoreland County judge took the unusual step of rejecting the plea deal, stating home monitoring was entirely inappropriate for an offense requiring prison time.

Carrozza fought back with constitutional law. He openly called out Township Manager Harry Fulk for attempting to bypass him, exposed threats of arrest from the DA for asking questions, and vowed to strip the board members of their qualified immunity via a federal civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

As of June 2026

​The fallout has turned into a massive First Amendment battle. Instead of transparent answers, local authorities hit Carrozza with a wave of criminal charges, ordering him to stand trial for misdemeanor counts of disrupting a public meeting, illegal recording in a police lobby, and endangering a public official after he posted an officer's photo online to criticize the department.

​Carrozza maintains that these charges are an unconstitutional overreach designed to criminalize citizen activism and silence a father demanding justice for his permanently injured wife and child. Meanwhile, the family home has fallen into foreclosure due to mounting medical debt.

As far as the driver.

Mullen's defense attorney requested a special pretrial hearing to challenge the state's evidence, specifically arguing that Morcheid's injuries did not legally meet the threshold of "serious bodily injury" and that the felony charge should be thrown out.

​Judge Stewart firmly rejected the defense's request to drop the felony charge. The judge noted that Morcheid's daily life remains entirely upended by her ongoing brain injury symptoms, headaches, speech issues, and physical tremors. The prosecution also successfully presented accident reconstruction data proving Mullen was driving 90 MPH in a 35 MPH zone just five seconds before the impact, which the court agreed was the absolute "definition of recklessness."

Because the defense's efforts to dismiss the charges failed, Judge Stewart ruled that the final determination of fault and the severity of the crash must be decided by a local jury. Mullen remains charged with felony aggravated assault by vehicle, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and multiple traffic summaries as the case moves toward a formal criminal trial.

[Levant News @LevantWire]

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[Miss Em @MissMeredith16]

Why isn't he being charged with perjury @RepTedLieu Do it. Charge @SecRubio with perjury now.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Mona @Mona_Westen]

"Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals"

[Slacker @slackerIP13]

@BronzyGuevara Congrats to the Albaninas who have defended their country honourably.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

omfg. the absolute corruption of the financial system.
elon has destroyed all trust with this deal.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Putin faces a succession crisis in Chechnya that could erupt into a new war inside Russia, draining troops and money he needs for Ukraine — Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy.

The region's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is probably terminally ill, and his heir is his 18-year-old son. 1/

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

~ Jane Goodall

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

That autonomy runs on Russian cash. Moscow transfers $3.8 billion to Chechnya every year, about 92 percent of the republic's entire budget.

Kadyrov treats the money as a personal slush fund and spends it on whim, paying for a lavish lifestyle and a private security force. 3/

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If there is any justice left in this country, the entire Trump crime family will end up behind bars due to their obscene corruption.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

MUST READ: The U.S. Is Pulling 900 Sensors Out of the Ocean. The Consequences Will Last Decades.

https://t.co/UKlGu5plrL