Dr. Dan Lomas
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Assistant Professor @NottsPolitics . Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
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Latest contribution to
@RUSI_org
on the use of social media by western HUMINT agencies to encourage recruitment in Russia.
Bottom line: we should do more.
Poking the Bear: Social Media and Human Intelligence Recruitment.
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"We just love diving near underwater gas pipelines. Nord Stream 1 and 2 are famous".
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"One of the most controversial Islamist groups in the UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks".
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✍️ "I have been waiting until you had settled in to tell you the story about the Fourth Man..."
Cabinet Secretary Sir John Hunt to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, May 1979.
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If anyone asks about the situation in Ukraine, I'll explain with this meme:
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"We also found a CIA cap, some Hershey bars and a note in crayon saying 'It wuz the CIA' on the seabed".
BREAKING:
@TheGrayzoneNews
led the first independent expedition investigating the Nord Stream bombings. Near one of the blast sites, they discovered a diving boot used by US Navy divers.
Why didn’t the Swedish investigators collect the boot or mention it in their statements?
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This week, I'll be introducing my undergrads to intelligence analysis/assessment.
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"A Russian-owned castle on the Kent-Sussex border that had its diplomatic status removed this week is suspected of being used by Russia’s military intelligence agency to meet and recruit UK agents".
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Biden declassified intelligence on Russian preparations for full-scale Ukraine invasion because of skepticism
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Russia's War in Ukraine: Military and Intelligence Aspects
Interesting updated report.
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The UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has released a long awaited report on
#China
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Timing comes after the passage of the National Security Bill and Christine Lee's appeal against MI5 warning. 👀
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Erm, lads. You missed out the bit between 1939 - 1941.
#JustSayin
Liberation of 🇵🇱 cost USSR over 600k soldiers & officers.
🇵🇱Gov stated: Polish people will never forget they gained their freedom thanks to brilliant victories of Soviet arms, thanks to abundant blood of heroic Soviet fighters.
But
#Poland
HAS forgotten…
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Stonehouse seems "quaint compared with the brazeness of members of his party today".
Erm, Stonehouse was a Labour MP.
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"There is a point of tension in the system. As much as they respect the former KGB man [Putin] for being a strong leader, the Russian general staff are going to be made scapegoats for his mess".
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"Eight serving European intelligence officials and diplomats interviewed by the Financial Times said Russia’s covert operations in Europe had been expanding at a rate that counter-espionage efforts have struggled to match".
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🤦♂️"All those on the list were registered as living in the Lubyanka, the service’s Moscow headquarters. According to the list, one alleged agent used “jamesbond007” as part of his Skype address".
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✍"Western intelligence sources say Russian forces have encountered far stronger Ukrainian resistance than they had expected and this was significantly slowing their advances since their invasion began on Thursday".
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🔥"Setting fire to electric relay cabinets, which control signal crossings and gates, has proved the most common method of disruption. The cabinets are often found on remote stretches of track making them an easy target".
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Yeah, because lack of wokeness is an effective measure of combat effectiveness.
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Yearly reminder that Father Christmas runs the largest HUMINT network in history.
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"President Joe Biden’s administration was working to declassify some of the intelligence and share it as early as Tuesday afternoon".
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Russian military leaders try to lift troop morale as tenth general killed
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💬Intelligence "allowed both Ukraine and the Western powers to go into the current crisis forearmed because they were forewarned".
Some thoughts with colleagues on the importance of
#intelligence
at the start of the
#UkraineWar
for
@WarOnTheRocks
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Shit! Where's Seymour Hersh when you need him?
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"Lads, you messed up the sim card stuff last time. Try and make it more genuine with a UK flag".
Here we go - another 'Ukrainian Nazism sympathizer' detailed by the FSB this morning is clearly wearing a British MI6 uniform
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Politicians: "Spying on allies isn't done, we're all friends".
Intelligence agencies:
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"And is 77th Brigade still in the room with us now, Wyatt?"
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"The US is offering Israel special operations planning and intelligence support as part of the effort to rescue hostages taken by Hamas".
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💬 "The German government received the CIA tip in summer, Spiegel reported, citing unnamed sources, adding that Berlin assumes a targeted attack on Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines".
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"I hear you're an expert on Finnish defence now, Father!"
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"I hear you're an expert on the road and rail infrastructure of the Crimea now, Father!"
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"I hear you're an expert on the Middle East now, Father!"
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📚This is an absolutely amazing book. Big picture stuff.
Highly recommend (even if I should be reading research related stuff). 👀
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🆕️ Intelligence & Security Committee report on Extreme Right Wing Terrorism.
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"Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia's trade relationships".
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We're going to get Prigozhin truthers now, aren't we?
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"I hear you're an expert on special forces now, Peter!"
Note my sarcasm, he's not.
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"I hear you're an expert on the Ukrainian offensive now, Father!"
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Intelligence academics welcome James Bond film but say it fails to depict collection, all-source assessment and policy impact.
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"According to a sworn statement by an FBI agent who investigated Teixeira, the 21-year-old shared government information in at least three Discord servers, one of which had some foreign nationals among its 150 members".
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US intelligence officials to WP journalists:
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Russia likely behind U.S. military document leak, U.S. officials say
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Gerasimov updating Putin like:
Today's events are significant enough that Rybar has made a map of them.
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Who is Kim Philby? The downfall of a jolly spiffing intelligence officer.
Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The downfall of a favourite daughter
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"Having entered a brothel and taken my clothes off, I made up the story of a foreign honeytrap to save face".
Tory MP who found himself naked in brothel at 4am feared he was victim of foreign honeytrap
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"Western intelligence agencies also lack a critical mass of relevant language skills ... During the Cold War, the West was full of Russian speakers and experts in Soviet culture. By comparison, there is little knowledge and understanding of China".
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👁
@PrivateEyeNews
with typically tongue in cheek coverage of Richard Moore's speech last month:
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"One diplomat told me that she returned to her flat in Moscow ... to find the magnetised letters on her fridge had been re-arranged to spell FSB".
BBC News - Russia imposes travel restrictions on UK diplomats
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BBC News - How MI5 caught UK embassy spy selling secrets to Russia
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"At least 11 British universities, including Cambridge and Imperial College London, are involved".
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"Though the volume and nature of OSINT certainly poses questions for modern-day intelligence agencies, it would be wrong to see its presence as throwing into doubt the latter's importance".
Some thoughts for
@RUSI_org
on intelligence in the digital age.
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When you go out in Cheltenham and say HUMINT is better:
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When Q Branch go to the races 👀
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Want to contact CIA from Russia? Agency points to darknet
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Who's a fictional military leader you'd follow into combat?
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🇵🇱 "says it has arrested a Russian national on suspicion that he allegedly collected information about Poland's military units, their supplies, and staff members at the request of Russian intelligence".
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"And at this point, having brought my own booze, I realised I had accidentally attended a party".
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BBC News - Obituary: Gary Schroen, the CIA spy sent to get Osama Bin Laden
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📚 This little book continues to be a useful resource on UK intelligence.
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Keeping secret intelligence safe?
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"I hear you're a Ukrainian offensive expert now, Father!"
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The Sandbaggers, the best spy drama ever made for TV.
The Bureau, hold my beer:
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Phyllis Latour obituary
"Member of the Special Operations Executive in the second world war who was parachuted into France a month before D-day".
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Accused Russian spy 'led plot to burn down building in London'
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"... this is an important moment for the US intelligence community".
The sentiment is true, yes. Western intelligence has got so much right.
But it's not as if this is the only intelligence success in recent years.
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"The sentries report tank experts to the southwest - thousands of 'em".
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