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Postgraduate Certificate in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation Develop your security and intelligence career with this postgraduate course, exploring varied modules via Buckingham's prestigious teaching.

The next University of Buckingham’s intake for its PG Cert / MA Covert Action, HUMINT & Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation starts September 2026. Taught entirely online. Part or full time. ELCAS eligible. For more information visit bit.ly/43YoDo1

A few books on Cold War spying and other HUMINT related activity.

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

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A few books on Cold War spying and other HUMINT related activity.

Police: Russian crew members pose a significant espionage threat Covert maritime intelligence from non-Russian flag ships gives Russia an overview of military capacities and infrastructure along the coast and on the seabed, Norway's Police Security Service warns.

Russian crew members pose a significant espionage threat. Covert maritime intelligence from non-Russian flag ships gives Russia an overview of military capacities and infrastructure along the coast and on the seabed, Norway's Police Security Service warns
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This article maybe of interest to our intelligence & security students.,https://x.com/laurengoode/status/2015912751303164001?s=12

Trump Unmasked www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State A closer look at the use of surveillance by Russia's intelligence services

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State

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Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans? The U.S. military spends billions trying to predict what its adversaries will do — and almost nothing testing whether its own plans make sense. In part,

The U.S. military plans obsessively for enemy moves. Who checks whether its own plans actually work?

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense THE IRON TRIANGLE — Welcome to the inaugural edition of “The Iron Triangle”, my new Cipher Brief column that serves the three pillars of modern defense: Procurement Officers tasked with buying the fut...

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MA Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation by Research 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 rel...

Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 26 and Sept 26 entry) To view programmes details go www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...

As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death

As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...

Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute

The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

The Chinese Communist Party fuses military and civilian cyber capabilities with coercive influence over private firms to embed vulnerabilities, preposition access, and compromise foreign technological infrastructure x.com/780thc/statu...

“Propaganda operations in the Cold War were designed to undermine authority, chip away at orthodox ideas, and encourage questioning"

@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h

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🔍 Spotlight on “Strategic Vandalism”

See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence.

📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.

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F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

The War on American Intelligence The US Intelligence Community is under sustained attack from its own government. Countries like the UK will try to minimise the fallout but will have to consider the US a less reliable intelligence partner for the duration of the crisis.

'The UK should probably reconsider intelligence-sharing arrangements on some sensitive issues, where there is little chance of influencing the US position, but considerable risks of exposure of sourcing' writes Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary.

🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin?

🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇

‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine Latest wave of displaced citizens curse ‘imperial ambition’ that has led to an estimated one million Russian casualties

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MA Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation by Research 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 rel...

Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 25 and Sept 25 entry) To view programmes details go via www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...

BUCSIS organised student visit to the National Archives exploring the declassified files on the Portland spy ring and the Cambridge spy ring. Followed by a tour of the excellent MI5 exhibition

Backlash grows after Zelensky strips anti-corruption bodies of independence

Trump brushes off US intel reports on Iran to align himself with Israel President has dismissed verdict by handpicked spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons

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Watching the Jackals: Cold War Terror, Espionage, and Prague’s Secret Role Podcast Episode · War Studies · 21/05/2025 · 48m

Who were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances?

🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.

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Another superb piece by Gill - how many intelligence historians could follow their paper at a conference with a turn?

Well i never knew that Blair (and Putin) were one-time readers of the President’s Daily Brief

Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social!

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Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year.