Death threats were made against President Vucic who denounced the protesters as "anti-Serbian".

The CIA has built up Ukraine’s espionage capabilities, but U.S. officials stress that the agency has no involvement in targeted killings operations by Kyiv

Expulsion of diplomats amid Ukraine war has limited Russia’s options, with west’s focus now turning to deep-cover ‘illegals’

Published in International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023)

How can we make sense of Western states’ nondesignation of white supremacists as terrorists compared to other actors engaged in similar political violence? This article offers three arguments and s...

Extensive research has been published about the failure of Israeli intelligence in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, mainly in the context of flawed analysis and strategic surprise. Fifty years after the...

Implying China mostly uses ethnically Chinese assets is both wrong and dangerous.

While the activities of many agents in the First and Second World Wars have been known, the stories and legacies of the 'secretaries' of MI6 are only just beginning to be revealed.

This article examines the intersection of Big Data and strategic intelligence from a theoretical-conceptual viewpoint. Adopting Popperian refutation as a starting point, it approaches methodologica...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s security against Soviet espionage was devastating. Open sources reveal more than 60 spies unmasked, named, and accused of directly stealing NATO secr...

Israeli officials tell BBC an investigation into Gaza's surprise attack will go on for years.

Beyond alarms regarding China or Russia, the head of the spy agency, William J. Burns, must deal with the menace of engineered viruses and other threats.

General Hockenhull, Commander Strategic Command, discussed the use of open source intelligence at a RUSI Members Webinar.

Extensive research has been published about the failure of Israeli intelligence in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, mainly in the context of flawed analysis and strategic surprise. Fifty years after the...

Thomas Leahy discusses the successes and failures of Britain's intelligence activities against the IRA, from the use of agents and informers to special-forces, surveillance and electronic intelligence

Researchers from psychology have proposed interrogation techniques that draw on established theoretical principles and empirical examinations and have tested these techniques using experimental met...

Slovenian authorities have arrested two foreign nationals suspected of spying for Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, the Slovenian newspaper Delo reported Monday.  The arrest operation was...

Published in Intelligence and National Security (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)

Yle's investigative unit MOT's probe was part of a wider collaboration of Nordic public broadcasters, in which journalists have uncovered the identities of dozens of Russian intelligence officers.

This article helps analysts unpack the complex policy networks responsible for making decisions on the use of covert action. It does this by using the Asymmetric Power Model as a lens for studying ...

The agency set up a programme in the cold war to resettle foreign spies in America. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it may get busy again

Develop your security and intelligence career with this postgraduate course, exploring varied modules via Buckingham's prestigious teaching.

The U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI)’s 2007 establishment of analytic standards in Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 203 aided in the professionalization of the U.S. Intelligence C...

Explore the intricate history of Soviet defectors through our meticulously curated database. Uncover motivations, challenges, and geopolitical impact in this academic resource.

This study aims to determine the level of integration of Japan’s Intelligence Community (IC), particularly the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence (DCI) as a coordinating body, si...

This article demonstrates how natural language processing (NLP) can be used by intelligence practitioners and scholars to analyse text. Using decades of unredacted East Pakistani intelligence repor...

In runup to 2020 U.S. elections U.S. intelligence agencies tried to prevent Russian covert operations from affecting the results. Various methods were used including the exposure of detected covert...

Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles - Volume 50 Issue 1

‎Show SPYCRAFT 101, Ep 107. British Covert Action with Rory Cormac - 6 Aug 2023

This article examines the foreign intelligence activities of three Russian spy agencies. Using open sources, it studies the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Main Directorate of the General Staff o...

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

This article investigates the conceptualisation of accountability in the Intelligence Studies literature, distinguishing between accountability as a mechanism and a virtue, and questions the predom...

The digital age has permanently changed the way states conduct political warfare—necessitating a rebalancing of security priorities in democracies. The utilisation of cyberspace by state and non-st...

​​​​​​​A new framework has been devised to help informant handlers better identify motivations. [Updated May 2024]

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...

Understanding a potential informant’s motivation can lay the foundation for managing the risks and opportunities associated with the informant-handler relationship and operational deployments. The ...

In an era of hacks and breaches, the game of spy vs. spy has changed.

In a world of increasing openness, secrecy retains its value. Covert operations, including strikes against individuals, can provide intelligence agencies with the ability to operate strategically, ...

Overconfident intelligence agencies missed multiple warnings before October 7 attacks in a ‘failure of imagination’

Tackle modern topics within business and government, and become a stand-out graduate when equipped with a security and intelligence degree.

The use of intelligence—flippantly described as the ‘second oldest profession’—to shape diplomacy and warfare is timeless. Jennifer Sims brings to the tabl

​​​​​​​A new framework has been devised to help informant handlers better identify motivations. [Updated May 2024]

This article explores the leadership ethics of Director of Central Intelligence William Colby within the context of the release of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “family jewels,” the interna...

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...

Anne Keast-Butler, who is currently serving as deputy director general at MI5, starts the role in May.

American moles of the 1980s are well-known amongst intelligence scholars — and they may soon be joined by equally infamous European traitors.

For almost two decades, hackers with Snake have been forcing their way into government networks. Who they work for, though, has always been a matter of pure speculation. But reporters with the German...

Develop your security and intelligence career with this postgraduate course, exploring varied modules via Buckingham's prestigious teaching.

Sir Jeremy Fleming interviews head of US intelligence agency as guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme.

This volume conceptualizes the threats, challenges, opportunities, and boundaries of great power cyber competition of the 21st century. This book focuses on a key dimension of contemporary great...

This article provides philosophical analyses of some of the key notions involved in national security intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination. In Section 1, and relying on the intellige...