Buckingham Centre for Security & Intelligence Studies.
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BUCSIS offers a range of security and intelligence programmes - taught & online including research degrees. #HUMINT #CovertAction. https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/bucsis
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MA Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation by Research
This programme aims to offer insight into hitherto closed and sensitive areas of security and intelligence practice within both western democracies and authoritarian regimes. Emphasis is placed on rel...
www.buckingham.ac.uk
Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 25 and Sept 25 entry) To view programmes details go via www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...
As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...
As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
The Chinese Communist Party fuses military and civilian cyber capabilities with coercive influence over private firms to embed vulnerabilities, preposition access, and compromise foreign technological infrastructure x.com/780thc/statu...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The Chinese Communist Party fuses military and civilian cyber capabilities with coercive influence over private firms to embed vulnerabilities, preposition access, and compromise foreign technological infrastructure x.com/780thc/statu...
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“Propaganda operations in the Cold War were designed to undermine authority, chip away at orthodox ideas, and encourage questioning"
@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h
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@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Propaganda operations in the Cold War were designed to undermine authority, chip away at orthodox ideas, and encourage questioning"
@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h
Image cc: The Telegraph
@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h
Image cc: The Telegraph
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🔍 Spotlight on “Strategic Vandalism”
See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence.
📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.
See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence.
📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.
🚨New article in our KCSI Insights blog by our core team member Dr @paulineblistene.bsky.social and KCSI Co-Director Dr @drichterova.bsky.social on “Strategic Vandalism: Decoding the French ‘Red Hands’ Trial.”
🔗 Link: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
🔗 Link: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
Strategic Vandalism: Decoding the French 'Red Hands' Trial
kcsi.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🔍 Spotlight on “Strategic Vandalism”
See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence.
📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.
See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence.
📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
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November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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'The UK should probably reconsider intelligence-sharing arrangements on some sensitive issues, where there is little chance of influencing the US position, but considerable risks of exposure of sourcing' writes Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary.
The War on American Intelligence
The US Intelligence Community is under sustained attack from its own government. Countries like the UK will try to minimise the fallout but will have to consider the US a less reliable intelligence partner for the duration of the crisis.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
'The UK should probably reconsider intelligence-sharing arrangements on some sensitive issues, where there is little chance of influencing the US position, but considerable risks of exposure of sourcing' writes Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin?
🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇
🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇
🎙️New Podcast!
@andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan join @drichterova.bsky.social to discuss their book Our Dear Friends in Moscow. They explore how fear, betrayal & moral choices shaped a generation of Russians.
🎧Listen now:
☁️ bit.ly/3GibvBf
🟢 bit.ly/4lNgNnf
🍎 bit.ly/4kt6Av2
@andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan join @drichterova.bsky.social to discuss their book Our Dear Friends in Moscow. They explore how fear, betrayal & moral choices shaped a generation of Russians.
🎧Listen now:
☁️ bit.ly/3GibvBf
🟢 bit.ly/4lNgNnf
🍎 bit.ly/4kt6Av2
July 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin?
🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇
🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇
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Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 25 and Sept 25 entry) To view programmes details go via www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...
MA Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation by Research
This programme aims to offer insight into hitherto closed and sensitive areas of security and intelligence practice within both western democracies and authoritarian regimes. Emphasis is placed on rel...
www.buckingham.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 25 and Sept 25 entry) To view programmes details go via www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...
BUCSIS organised student visit to the National Archives exploring the declassified files on the Portland spy ring and the Cambridge spy ring. Followed by a tour of the excellent MI5 exhibition
July 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
BUCSIS organised student visit to the National Archives exploring the declassified files on the Portland spy ring and the Cambridge spy ring. Followed by a tour of the excellent MI5 exhibition
Backlash grows after Zelensky strips anti-corruption bodies of independence
July 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Backlash grows after Zelensky strips anti-corruption bodies of independence
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Who were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances?
🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.
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🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.
👉 shorturl.at/ipOUl
Watching the Jackals: Cold War Terror, Espionage, and Prague’s Secret Role
Podcast Episode · War Studies · 21/05/2025 · 48m
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May 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Who were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances?
🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.
👉 shorturl.at/ipOUl
🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.
👉 shorturl.at/ipOUl
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Another superb piece by Gill - how many intelligence historians could follow their paper at a conference with a turn?
My antidote to uniformly depressing news. With apologies to War, original performers of Low Rider that has become Spy Writer . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLP...
Spywriter
YouTube video by Gill's New Groove
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May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Another superb piece by Gill - how many intelligence historians could follow their paper at a conference with a turn?
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Well i never knew that Blair (and Putin) were one-time readers of the President’s Daily Brief
Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social!
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Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social!
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...
May 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Well i never knew that Blair (and Putin) were one-time readers of the President’s Daily Brief
Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social!
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...
Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social!
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...
Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year.
May 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year.
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It’s a constant, and subversive and relentless drip drip pervasiveness… but for those specifically targeted it must be terrifying
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Revealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UK
Social media incitement following last summer’s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exiles
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
It’s a constant, and subversive and relentless drip drip pervasiveness… but for those specifically targeted it must be terrifying
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Next up we have Jeff Rogg (@jrogg.bsky.social) with an insightful review of George and Levine's The CIA Intelligence Analyst: Views from the Inside www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The CIA intelligence analyst: views from the inside
Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Next up we have Jeff Rogg (@jrogg.bsky.social) with an insightful review of George and Levine's The CIA Intelligence Analyst: Views from the Inside www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Most accessible overview of what I do: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8b79...
The moral ecology of extremism: a systemic perspective
Dr Noémie Bouhana, University College London.
www.gov.uk
February 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Most accessible overview of what I do: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8b79...
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No hint of compromise in today’s Russian press. On the prospects for peace in Ukraine, one paper declares: “Trump is in a hurry…Russia is in no hurry for a deal.” Another paper says Vladimir Putin’s demands “have barely changed” from the ones he issued last June. #ReadingRussia
Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (14 April 2025)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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April 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
No hint of compromise in today’s Russian press. On the prospects for peace in Ukraine, one paper declares: “Trump is in a hurry…Russia is in no hurry for a deal.” Another paper says Vladimir Putin’s demands “have barely changed” from the ones he issued last June. #ReadingRussia
Romanian man arrested after DHL warehouse fire caused by suspected Russian device. #covertaction
April 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Romanian man arrested after DHL warehouse fire caused by suspected Russian device. #covertaction
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An informant reporting Russian sabotage, 1920s:
“I have refrained from particularising and offering proof of my statements as it is a waste of time and effort. I will point out that the situation was exactly foretold years ago and the warnings ignored”
“I have refrained from particularising and offering proof of my statements as it is a waste of time and effort. I will point out that the situation was exactly foretold years ago and the warnings ignored”
April 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
An informant reporting Russian sabotage, 1920s:
“I have refrained from particularising and offering proof of my statements as it is a waste of time and effort. I will point out that the situation was exactly foretold years ago and the warnings ignored”
“I have refrained from particularising and offering proof of my statements as it is a waste of time and effort. I will point out that the situation was exactly foretold years ago and the warnings ignored”
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📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community'
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community'
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social