Dead Drop: March, 2024

Dead Drop: March 29

HOW SUN TZU OF YOU:  Chinese military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu once said, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without […] More

Dead Drop: March 22

APPARENTLY, THEY WERE OUT OF TOAD VENOM:  Vitaly Robertus, the vice president of the Russian oil company, Lukoil, was found hanged in his office last […] More

Dead Drop: March 15

TALK OF RUSSIA USING NUKES IS MUSHROOMING: This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview on state TV that he is ready to use nuclear weapons […] More

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

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

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