Dead Drop: March 8
NOW, THEY TELL US: Remember right before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (to distinguish it from the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine) when Kremlin officials were […] More
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Dead Drop: March 1
PILOT ERROR: ‘Some people claim there’s a woman to blame, but I know … it’s my own damn fault’ (to paraphrase Jimmy Buffet.) Last week, The […] More
Dead Drop: February 23
VLAD THE AVENGER: We didn’t need the death of Alexei Navalny from “sudden death syndrome” (the Russians really called it that) that those who cross Vladimir […] More
Dead Drop: February 16
TUCKERED OUT: We admit we did not have the energy to watch all of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin. OK, we didn’t have the vigor […] More
Dead Drop: February 9
BIRD’S EYE SPY: A major question of international espionage was resolved peacefully recently when, after an exhaustive investigation, authorities in India released a suspect who was being held […] More
Dead Drop: February 2
THEY’RE BACK: Well, at least every once in a while. We noted in our January 5th Dead Drop that CIA seems to have soured on the social media platform […] More
Dead Drop: January 26
HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE: Former U.S. weapons inspector (and convicted felon) Scott Ritter continues his magical mystery tour of Russia. This week, Ritter made his […] More
Dead Drop: January 19
MORE NEWS FROM THE UKRAINIAN UN-WELCOME WAGON: We have previously told you about reports of two young Ukrainian women who (according to some sources) on a […] More
Dead Drop: January 12
AUSTIN’S POWERS: A lot of ink has been spilled – and electrons expended, analyzing the circumstances surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization at the start of the […] More
Dead Drop: January 5
IS CIA AN EX X USER AND Y? The social media platform formerly known as Twitter has had a rough year. The mutual fund Fidelity says X […] More
Dead Drop: December 29
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL: There have been several reports of Russian officials presenting grieving families of soldiers who are killed in the war in Ukraine with household appliances, […] More
Dead Drop: December 22
REALLY EVENTFUL: We learned this week of a new memoir describing the career of 91-year-old retired CIA officer Thomas Ahern who was station chief of the […] More
Dead Drop: December 15
ROAD SHOW: We told readers back in October about what we heard was a highly-successful fundraising dinner held by the CIA Officer’s Memorial Foundation (CIAOMF) somewhere near Washington, […] More
Dead Drop: December 8
KREMLIN KEYSTONE CLOWN-CAR: Vladimir Zavadsky is the latest Russian general reportedly killed in Ukraine. While the reports are a bit sketchy, some say the Major General, who was […] More
Dead Drop: December 1
RUSSIAN ARMY RECRUITING PROBLEM BEGINS TO BITE: As Vladmir Putin’s planned 3-day invasion of Ukraine approaches its two-year anniversary, (or if you count from the […] More
Dead Drop: November 24
GET OUT OF (RUSSIAN) JAIL FREE CARD: Long ago, when Moscow’s planned three-day invasion of Ukraine had dragged on for several months – the Kremlin’s military […] More
Dead Drop: November 17
HIRE A VET: Just before Veterans Day, The Wall Street Journal noted that “the unemployment rate for former service members is 2.9%, a full point lower than […] More
Dead Drop: November 10
DANISH GRAYMAIL? Two top former Danish officials who had been facing trial for leaking classified information got good news last week, when officials in Copenhagen dropped […] More