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News you may have missed #496
US secretly collaborating with Chinese spies on North Korea. Cuba denounces acquittal of ex-CIA agent. Analysis: US spy agencies struggling to adjust to Middle East changes.
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News you may have missed #499 (CIA edition)
CIA sued for failing to release Bay of Pigs history. Ex-CIA Deputy Director on intelligence priorities. Is it OK for spy agency chiefs to tell the truth?
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News you may have missed #635
UK to support Colombia's new intelligence agency. US intelligence to train analysts with videogames. Soviet spy who spent years in Swiss prison dies at 77.
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News you may have missed #756 (analysis edition)
Intel analysts taking over leading role in spy game. US intel doesn't see Syrian regime cracking. Arrests of Iranians in Kenya spark fears of plot.
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Analysis: Should the CIA kill less and spy more?
Sooner or later the news media will move on to something else and General David Petraeus' extramarital affair and resignation will fade into the distance. For seasoned intelligence observers, however,...
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German intelligence report sees US leading global energy contest
A leaked geopolitical study authored by German intelligence sees the United States as the primary beneficiary of the world’s drastically changing energy balance.
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Ex-CIA analyst says North Korea will launch strikes against South
A former senior analyst on North Korea at the United States Central Intelligence Agency believes that the communist state will launch limited strikes against the South before moving to de-escalate the...
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News you may have missed #835 (Americas edition)
'Cuban Five' spy member renounces US citizenship. US Defense Intelligence Agency contemplates austerity. Report says Canada spies caught off guard by Arab Spring.
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UK military scrambling to rehire retired Russian-language analysts
The crisis in Ukraine is causing the British military to reach out to hundreds of retired Russian-language analysts who left the service at the end of the Cold War, according to media reports.
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US Pentagon probing claims of falsely optimistic intel reports on ISIS
The United States Department of Defense is investigating claims that some of its officials doctored intelligence reports to give a falsely optimistic account of the campaign against the Islamic State...
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Pentagon continues to probe ISIS reports after US intel analysts “revolt”
The United States Department of Defense is still probing claims that some of its officials doctored intelligence reports to give a falsely optimistic account of the campaign against the Islamic State....
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We had no asset in Saddam’s inner circle, says ex-CIA deputy director
A senior Central Intelligence Agency official, who led the agency as its acting director before retiring in 2013, has said that not having sources in the Iraqi government’s upper echelons led to the...
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US lawmaker claims Pentagon is resisting probe into tweaked ISIS analysis
The leading lawmaker in the United States Congressional intelligence committee has accused the Department of Defense of resisting his efforts to investigate claims that intelligence products on the...
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US Congressional probe finds DoD intelligence on Islamic State was altered
An investigation by Republican lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives has reportedly found that military intelligence analysts were pressured into changing reports on the Islamic State...
View ArticleTrump’s Twitter feed is ‘gold mine’ for foreign spies, says ex-CIA analyst
According to former CIA analyst Nada Bakos, foreign intelligence agencies are among those paying close attention to President Trump's tweets. And she claims that "Trump’s Twitter feed is a gold mine...
View ArticleUS-Iran tensions may have been sparked by ‘misread intelligence’, claims report
The escalating tension between the United States and Iran, and the ensuing military buildup in the Persian Gulf, may have resulted from a misreading of intelligence by both sides, according to a new...
View ArticleUS and Saudi Arabia ‘suffered intelligence blackout’ during Iran drone...
Saudi Arabia and the United States suffered “a total and embarrassing [intelligence] failure” in the lead-up to the drone strikes that shut down half of the kingdom’s oil production last month,...
View ArticleUS spy agencies warned Kabul would fall, but did not give precise timeline,...
ANALYSES BY UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE agencies about the dynamics of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan became progressively grim over the summer, but did not provide precise timelines of the...
View ArticleBritish foreign secretary admits errors in intelligence assessments of...
THE CONSENSUS VIEW OF British intelligence in the weeks leading to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban was that the Afghan government would be challenged, but that the rebels were unlikely to take over...
View ArticleGathering intelligence on the world’s largest secret society: the Chinese...
INTELLIGENCE OBSERVERS OFTEN REFER to the Communist Party of China (CPC) as “the world’s largest secret society”. How does one manage to monitor developments in the inner sanctum of the Chinese state...
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