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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 11h

Me writing: I’ll fact check that at the revisions stage

At revisions: I’ll check it at copy edit

At copy edit: I’ll check it at proofs

At proofs: if it’s still here by now I must’ve fact checked it already

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 3d

@lucatrenta.bsky.social I got a message saying you DM’d me but I don’t have direct messenger on here anymore since they did that age verification thing so can’t read it. Sorry

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 4d

“The geographies of the information research department”

Enjoyed this “critical geographical analysis” of British covert operations

And there’s me thinking that geography was just oxbow lakes and erosion!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). To date, there has been no geographical study of IRD and through...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 5d

Oh turns out it’s on preorder.

Loving the blurbs from early readers:

“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”

Can’t wait to share it!

www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...

Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line: Amazon.co.uk: Cormac, Rory: 9780198917007: Books

Buy Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line by Cormac, Rory (ISBN: 9780198917007) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligib...

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 7d

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoyed this study on anglocentrism in covert action scholarship. It says I’m wrong merely to point to an evidence bias. Shame it didn’t come out before we did the below 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social · 8d

1/3 📕 #CovertAction: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention is now out!

I am delighted to have co-authored the chapter “Czechoslovakia: Covert Measures in Peace and War.”

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 7d

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !

(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

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