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- Open Thread – 28 January 2023
- A good yarn by Electra Rhodes – TTG
- Tanks are on the way… finally – TTG
- A retired FBI agent is charged with crimes along with a former Soviet diplomat, and separately after getting mixed up with men from Albania and Bosnia
- “Civil War general’s remains come back to his hometown” – TTG
- Mick Ryan on Ukrainian tanks – TTG
- VA hospital to drop Confederate name – TTG
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Category Archives: Intelligence
“NSA Seems to Be Spying on UFOs” – TTG
This week brings a new DoD release through the Freedom of Information Act which opens up a whole new front in the endless “What does Uncle Sam secretly know about UFOs?” debate. Back in July, The Black Vault, which specializes … Continue reading
Posted in government, Intelligence, Space, TTG
23 Comments
” … How the U.S. Totally Misjudged the War in Ukraine”
“The war in Ukraine isn’t going the way Russian President Vladimir Putin expected. And he’s certainly not the only one who was caught by surprise—the U.S. expected a rapid Russian success, with the Kremlin’s tanks inside Kyiv within days. Many U.S. officials from the … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, My books, Russia, The Military Art, Ukraine Crisis
27 Comments
Burn CIA and FBI to the ground. Republished 16 October 2022
IMO there is a lot of evidence of incompetence and malfeasance in the leadership of the 17 agencies of the Intelligence Community and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A partial list of failures and misdeeds: 1. They failed to predict … Continue reading
Posted in government, Intelligence
116 Comments
“Tribal spies in Syria help U.S. win drone war against Islamic State” – TTG
While Islamic State is a shadow of the group that ruled over a third of Syria and Iraq in a Caliphate declared in 2014, hundreds of fighters are still camped in desolate areas where neither the US-led coalition nor the … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Syria, The Military Art, TTG
20 Comments
“Intelligence pukes”
I am writing this without consulting TTG, an esteemed colleague and friend. This piece is going to seem a bit self-pitying, and he is not the type for that. I transferred to MI branch (insignia above) after serving in the … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, The Military Art, Ukraine Crisis
45 Comments
” … Ukraine ‘Potentially Winning Decisively’ Over Russia.”
“… lately, the Ukrainians have been very successful in fighting back and counter attacking and part of that is because of the arrival of advanced weapons from the United States and NATO so that they are outclassing the Russians in … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Russia, The Military Art, Ukraine Crisis
23 Comments
Why would Russia want this man returned?
“Russia called the Thai court decision in 2010 politically motivated.[68][69] Its Foreign Ministry took steps to prevent Bout being extradited to the U.S.;[27] Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that Bout was innocent.[27] On 18 November 2010, shortly after Bout’s extradition to the United States, former … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Russia
9 Comments
The Human Factor: The Phenomenon of Espionage
by W. Patrick Lang June 2022 — The just released second edition of Col. Lang’s classic work on the art of human intelligence is now available to order from Amazon or iUniverse. Publisher’s Weekly’s Booklife calls The Human Factor, “A … Continue reading
Posted in History, Intelligence, My books
Tagged Espionage, Intelligence, Kim Philby, Military
13 Comments
How did we miss that? – TTG
A heated exchange between Senator King and DIA Director General Berrier on whether the intel community failed to predict/understand Ukraine’s will to fight. Berrier: “there was never an intelligence community assessment that said the Ukrainians lack the will to fight.” … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
35 Comments
Ukrainian targeting is remarkably precise.
The Ukrainian military said Saturday it destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, a southern city that fell to Russian forces early in the war. The Ukrainian military intelligence agency posted a statement saying the command post was hit … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Russia, Ukraine Crisis
11 Comments