Mark Stout
@markstout.bsky.social
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
Interesting. What are/were you researching?
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Interesting. What are/were you researching?
That is outstanding.
January 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
That is outstanding.
Yeah, there are most definitely counting problems here. And reports can be aggregated or disaggregated, too.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Yeah, there are most definitely counting problems here. And reports can be aggregated or disaggregated, too.
I do wonder if France is able to have any actually accurate sense of the proportion of Ukraine's intelligence that it provides. I can readily imagine not.
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I do wonder if France is able to have any actually accurate sense of the proportion of Ukraine's intelligence that it provides. I can readily imagine not.
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#France now supplies most of Ukraine’s intelligence, Macron says
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
France now supplies most of Ukraine’s intelligence, Macron says
France is now providing two-thirds of the intelligence Ukraine needs in its war with Russia, President Emmanuel Macron said, overtaking the United States as Kyiv’s main source of intelligence support.
www.rfi.fr
January 17, 2026 at 6:36 AM
#France now supplies most of Ukraine’s intelligence, Macron says
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
He's not aware of the UN Charter, I take it.
January 17, 2026 at 4:08 AM
He's not aware of the UN Charter, I take it.
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BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland.
The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Stor operation i gang: Fly strømmer til Grønland med europæiske soldater
I flere døgn har militære transportfly fløjet i pendulfart mellem Danmark og Grønland. Fredag aften landede et stort antal soldater i Nuuk.
www.dr.dk
January 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland.
The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Glasgow’s Gorbachev go-between www.glasgowbell.co.uk/alec-nove-so...
Glasgow’s Gorbachev go-between
How a local academic saw through the iron curtain
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Glasgow’s Gorbachev go-between www.glasgowbell.co.uk/alec-nove-so...
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CIA director had two-hour meeting with new Venezuelan leader in Caracas
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
CIA director had two-hour meeting with new Venezuelan leader in Caracas
The pair discussed economic opportunities and preventing Venezuela becoming a place for
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
CIA director had two-hour meeting with new Venezuelan leader in Caracas
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yeah, typo that I just saw. #theresalwayssomething
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Yeah, typo that I just saw. #theresalwayssomething
Helsingfors, rather. Argh!
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Helsingfors, rather. Argh!
US records of this period used Helsingborg, too.
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
US records of this period used Helsingborg, too.
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👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
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It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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Shooting an unarmed mom in the face at point-blank range sent a very powerful message about ICE.
Tom Homan said ICE’s biggest issue is “messaging.”
Trump’s Border Czar Spills on Changes He Wants at ICE
Tom Homan said ICE’s biggest issue is “messaging.”
trib.al
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Shooting an unarmed mom in the face at point-blank range sent a very powerful message about ICE.
On the extremely off chance that anyone in Minnesota needs an intelligence historian, DM me. I particularly focus on 20th century US intel. My dissertation was on the far-flung US intel in WWI. But I can do other periods of US intel history and in a pinch could do UK or Soviet, too.
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 AM
On the extremely off chance that anyone in Minnesota needs an intelligence historian, DM me. I particularly focus on 20th century US intel. My dissertation was on the far-flung US intel in WWI. But I can do other periods of US intel history and in a pinch could do UK or Soviet, too.
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This dude is intense and correct
A bit late, but here you go.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A bit late, but here you go.
A real hero.
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
A real hero.
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This will be great! There are so few books in English on the Italian front of the First World War, so this is a huge service to readers
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
This will be great! There are so few books in English on the Italian front of the First World War, so this is a huge service to readers
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The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
This is very interesting and very strange.
January 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
This is very interesting and very strange.