Analysis: Former GCHQ director co-authors paper on training analysts
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is not often that a former Director of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain’s primary signals intelligence agency, publicly expresses his or...
View ArticleExpert warns of generational gap in Western intelligence services
Security expert Kevin O’Brien has given an interview to Reuters news agency, in which he warns of “serious generational differences and disparities between [intelligence] managers' and analysts'...
View ArticleSoftware startup supplying CIA, FBI, DoD, with analytical tools
CIA and Pentagon insiders are crediting a virtually unknown software startup with having designed the most effective analytical tool to date.
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US government drops felony charges against GIA analyst. US military cannot analyze surveillance footage influx. Second spy operation against media revealed in Bulgaria.
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CIA Intellipedia gurus get Homeland Security Medal. Cuban Five resentencing delayed. Was Columbus a spy?
View ArticleUS spy agencies invest in Internet-monitoring company
In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital investment arm, is funding a private software company specializing in monitoring online social media, such as YouTube, Twitter and Flickr.
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Israel uses Facebook to spy on Arab, Muslim youth. Nepal paper alleges secret US-India spy meeting. UK to require record-keeping of all personal communications, despite privacy concerns.
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The real story behind underwear bomber security lapses. Obama orders creation of declassification center.
View ArticleComment: Is There a ‘DNA Problem’ in US Spying?
The controversy of the apparent ineffectiveness of US intelligence agencies to uncover the so-called Christmas Day bomb plot has reignited the discussion about the operational shortcomings of the US...
View ArticleAnalysis: Germany’s spies struggle to adapt to post-Cold War changes
Nearly everyone in Germany recognizes that the global intelligence landscape has changed, almost beyond recognition, in the years since the end of the Cold War. Current challenges are far more...
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Bomber's betrayal shows spy challenge for West. Christmas Day bomber affair was intel failure of the highest order. Endemic failures in US intelligence gathering, analysis.
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Iran undecided on nukes, says US military spy chief. Nobel winner demands Germany uncover Romanian ex-spies.
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CIA Abdulmutallab report not distributed, awaiting photo. CIA Abdulmutallab report not distributed, awaiting photo.
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US Navy posts classified report on China by mistake. Analysis: Think different, CIA.
View ArticleCIA not surprised by Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, documents show
Newly declassified CIA documents from 1968 show that the Agency had warned the Lyndon B. Johnson administration that the USSR was preparing to invade Czechoslovakia later that year.
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CIA tech arm invests in camera lens start-up. NSA cyberdefense exercise underway. US spy researchers working on computational intel.
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CIA forerunner's sabotage manual released. CIA misread South Korea signs, documents show. Ex-CIA top official's op-ed supports Miranda rights.
View ArticleUS intel wants to automate analysis of online videos
A new project funded by the US intelligence community’s research unit aims to automate the collection and analysis of videos from YouTube and other popular online platforms, with the intent of...
View ArticleAnalysis: What is the CIA doing in Egypt?
Every time there is a popular uprising anywhere in the Muslim world, the minds of American intelligence planners go immediately to 1979, when the Iranian Revolution tore down almost overnight one of...
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Obama 'disappointed' with US intelligence on Tunisia. An Intelligence Failure in Egypt? Did US intelligence fail in North Africa?
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