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A warning from history The five "Cambridge Spies" Thrilled to share below an article I've written on the Cambridge spy network using #MI5 #BritishIntelligence records declassified earlier this month. Britain's search for the five #CambridgeSpies was the most complex and long-lasting counterintelligence investigation in modern British history. It tormented British counterintelligence for the best part of 30 years. The newly released records show, for the first time, how members of the Soviet network slipped through British security – but also how close British intelligence came to identifying them at various points. @thecipherbrief Hope you find my article informative – if you have any views, I'd be interested to hear them I'm also posting some of the key documents from the records below thecipherbrief.com/column_article… 📷

New article published in the journal Intelligence and National Security titled "The media and ‘Mrs Petrov’: press representations of Australia’s most famous spy" by Melanie Brand, available at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"CIA’s evaluation of analytic quality: can it fortify tradecraft?" New article by Robert Levine & Roger Z. George, in the journal Intelligence and National Security at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A sneak peek for all you fans of spies and spy history! Out May 1, 2025 with @OUPAcademic:

Call for papers DUE 15 Sep 2024 Submission Deadline iConference 2025 “Living in an AI-gorithmic world” 11-14 Mar 2025 Online Conference 18-22 Mar 2025 Live Conference @ Indiana University Bloomington ischools.org/post/iconferen…

"Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022"...by Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, Steven Wagner, Neveen Shaaban Abdalla & Philip H. J. Davies, and published in the journal Intelligence & National Security (open access, free): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Open access: Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–2024 by Philip H.J. Davies, in the journal Intelligence and National Security, here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you to Mark Stout (@WWIPhD) for presenting his new book World War I & the Foundations of American Intelligence (@Kansas_Press, 2023) in my class on April 5. Thanks also to @IAFIE1 for two copies of the book given as prizes to students who asked the best questions.

IAFIE’s annual conference is virtual this year from June 5-7! Please join us for a fascinating program: iafie.org/iafie_virtual_…

Digital archives are an indispensable teaching tool for classes in intelligence studies. One of the assignments in my Intelligence & Global Security class is to research primary sources in digital archives. What other digital archives in English can be added to this list? ⬇️

In recognition of our many fabulous members around the globe, we have changed our name. We are now the Society for Intelligence History (SIH). Thank you so much for your support and engagement. We look forward to expanded engagement with intel historians worldwide.

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I published an article w/ @AbebeRorissa on the state of the IntelStudies literature. We analyzed approx. 6k of article citations. To see the results, first 50 are free downloads: tandfonline.com/eprint/YC7HB7N…

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New issue of IJIC out now! tandfonline.com/toc/ujic20/cur…

My latest article on how smaller states use intelligence liaison relationships to influence U.S. policy is out. @Intel_IJIC tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

When & how did U.S. intel get the organizational chart of Stalin's SMERSH? #CIA-released doc in August 2023 shows that Soviet intel defector Anatoly Granovsky provided the organizational chart of SMERSH during his interrogation in October 1946. cia.gov/readingroom/do…

Thank you, @kloosha for today's super presentation on the CIA and Soviet political jokes. Next up on 12/5 is Jimmy Burns, OBE, on Walter Bell's (CMG & US Medal of Freedom) work with agents of influence & damage limitation over the Cambridge 5 affair. intelligencehistory.org/event-details/…

Review article titled "The Evolution of African Intelligence Cultures" by R. Gerald Hughes & Martin Plaut and published in the journal Intelligence and National Security, available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…