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How America Appeased Putin

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Excerpt from Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and WestWhen Spies was first published in 2023, it made front-page news with the chilling revelation that the Russian government had reached [...] More

China’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Western universities and laboratories are on the frontlines of a battle over talent and technology. This assertion may seem like scaremongering, but when cold hard facts are considered, it is [...] More

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Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

There is a growing perception among long-standing US allies that they need to expand commercial relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). [...] More

The Meaning of ‘Munich’ – Then and Now 

“Munich” is one of the most used historical analogies – and almost always, it is used inappropriately to justify force. For once, however, the Munich [...] More

A Cold War Spy Dossier Revealed - With Lessons for Today

Earlier this month, a tranche of British Security Service (MI5) records was declassified on the most notorious traitors in modern British history: [...] More

An All-of-Society Approach to US Counterintelligence  

The United States stands at a crossroads, facing threats as insidious as they are immense. State-sponsored espionage, led by China, seeks not just to [...] More

Russia's State-Sponsored Hostage Taking Reaps Rewards for the Kremlin

OPINION - Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal journalist and US citizen, Evan Gershkovich, on espionage charges is the latest example of the [...] More
Soviet Espionage Under the Cover of Diplomacy

Soviet Espionage Under the Cover of Diplomacy

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, the US government expelled 13 Russian diplomats working at the United [...] More
Defining the IC's Mission Space for Climate Change

Defining the IC's Mission Space for Climate Change

As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and [...] More

Bodyguard of Lies: British Intelligence and D-Day

Seventy-five years ago, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, a German agent operating in Britain began sending a series of urgent radio messages to his Nazi [...] More