Did you know Miss Moneypenny was not the original name chosen by Ian Fleming? When the Bond creator sat down to write his first #JamesBond novel, Casino Royale (published 1953), the name he chose for M's devoted secretary was... Miss Pettavel. He quickly realised his blend of fact and fiction was far too close to reality. The name was crossed out in pencil, and a new name was inserted... Miss Moneypenny. While Fleming never revealed the identities of the individuals he drew upon, many of his ideas came from his time in naval intelligence during #WW2 Miss Kathleen Pettigrew, a trailblazing MI6 woman, was the 'real' Miss Moneypenny. As personal assistant to the wartime MI6 Chief, Stewart Menzies, the loyal 'secretary' received secret correspondence and reports on Fleming's audacious operations. She also accompanied Menzies to early morning meetings with Winston Churchill, and read through decoded German ENIGMA messages from @bletchleypark Late in life, Kathleen Pettigrew declared: 'I was Miss Moneypenny, but with more power.' Kathleen's story is told for the first time in my award-winning book, Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence, published by @wnbooks Follow me @thespyhistorian for more stories about women in secret intelligence🕵️‍♀️ #spyhistory #womenshistory #MI6 #SIS #history #SecretIntelligenceService #war #secretintelligence

#HerSecretService #HerStory Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth (1921-2010), was the FIRST female MI6 officer appointed Controller Western Hemisphere in 1975, the highest post ever occupied by a woman. Her remarkable career spanned over thirty years; she spent time in #Hanoi during the #Vietnam War, smuggled men out of the Congo in the boot of her car, and ran agents in #Moscow. During one interview, the formidable former spy commented: "Licensed to kill? My foot. Brains are far more effective than guns - particularly for a woman. When an intruder tried to break into my house in the Congo, I flung open the window and said, 'I'm a witch, and if you stay a minute longer, your fingers will drop off.' He soon ran away." Follow me @thespyhistorian for more stories about women in secret intelligence🕵️‍♀️ #spyhistory #womenshistory #MI6 #SIS #history #SecretIntelligenceService #war #secretintelligence

Download the latest episode of @TheLiveDrop podcast, and listen to our conversation about The Cambridge Spy Ring! @valleymrk @penswordbooks #NewBook #podcast #AuthorSpotlight #espionage #history #ColdWar #spies #espionagethriller #secretintelligence shows.acast.com/the-live-dro…

Australian man Peter Williams has appeared in a US court for allegedly selling classified trade secrets to Russia. #russia #spy #espionage #secretintelligence #australia

🔮🪡🧵In the national security arena, cyberspace is now a new battlefield. Data leaks can paralyze intelligence operations and threaten critical infrastructure. The luxury of transparency is tantamount to suicide. This is where @zama_fhe Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology is poised to reshape the defense industry. We are building invisible shields in the cyber war of the future. Traditional encryption protects data in transit. But what about while it's being processed? That moment is our weakest point. Zama's FHE is this disruptive technology, Sensitive information is processed without being decrypted, like a shadow in a dark room. Intelligence analyses, military strategy simulations, critical decision support systems all of this will be conducted behind a digital screen whose content no one can see. For example, encrypted data from different intelligence units is transferred to a single central system. This system combines all this data, analyzes it, and creates a threat model without viewing the content. While no agency sees another's raw data, collective intelligence is utilized to its fullest. Espionage and infiltration attempts become meaningless because they can't find anything to see. One of the most striking applications of FHE is its privacy focused interaction with autonomous military systems (drones, robotic ground vehicles). These systems send sensitive data collected from the field in encrypted form to a central unit. The central unit uses this encrypted data, for example, to analyze enemy positions and issue new mission directives to the autonomous systems, also encrypted. These directives cannot be read by anyone until they are decrypted and translated into action by the autonomous systems. Thus, even if the enemy intercepts the autonomous systems communications, they cannot learn mission objectives or strategic information. This translates to strategic superiority on the future battlefield. Systems execute orders without disclosing them to anyone. Multinational military alliances like NATO often struggle to share classified data. Each country has its own national security concerns. @zama_fhe FHE bridges this gap. Allies encryptedly consolidate their sensitive data (e.g., target coordinates, troop mobility) on a common platform. The platform generates a common situational picture (e.g., a unified analysis of enemy mobility) based on all this encrypted information without revealing the content of the data. Each ally can decrypt the portion of this encrypted analysis relevant to their own country, but they do not have access to the sensitive raw data of other allies. This increases trust and coordination with zero knowledge. As cyber threats evolve, so too must defense mechanisms. @zama_fhe FHE is at the cutting edge of this evolution. By fundamentally guaranteeing data privacy in the defense industry, it fundamentally changes the threats to cyber espionage and operational secrets. The battlefield of the future will be one where invisible data and encrypted intelligence prevail 🔮🪡🧵 #Zama #FHE #DefenseIndustry #CyberSecurity #SecretIntelligence #NationalSecurity #Cryptography #ZamaCreatorProgram #Zama @zama_fhe

#NEWSUPDATE || எம்.ஐ.6 அமைப்புக்கு முதல் பெண் தலைமை அதிகாரி | #England | #BlaiseMetreweli | #SpyAgency | #SecretIntelligence | #PolimerNews

Cannot wait to get our hands on a copy of this! 👩‍💻 Congratulations @spyhistory on your debut book! #intelligence #secretintelligence #womenshistory

Han, het scherpste mes in de la, weet nog niet dat Q een grote fakeshow is. 🤯🤯 #SecretIntelligence #HanWintGeenIntelligentieTest 😆😆

thankyou Chiselbury for bringing this story into daylight #spies #secretintelligence #espionage #Kenya #India #westindies #specialrelationship #WW2 #coldwar

In very crucial time #ISI made another historic achievement in the arena of #SecretIntelligence and successfully arrested one of the #TopBalochTerrorist Gulzar Imam alias #Shanba in a very tough operation! Hats off to #ISI #BNA @CIA @OfficialDGISPR @PaulHayhurstUK @amnestyusa

Operation Chiffon: How MI5’s 'Backchannel' Spycraft Helped End a War With the IRA: spyscape.com/article/operati… #OperationChiffon #MI5 #spycraft #IRA #NorthernIreland #GoodFridayAgreement #covertoperations #conflictresolution #secretintelligence

Gale's '#Declassified #Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British #Intelligence: Monitoring the World' #archive has been named a Best Reference Database of 2022 by @LibraryJournal! 🥳 >>libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-… #Classified #Research #GovernmentDocuments #SecretIntelligence

Episode 16: Covert Action, The Royals, Coups & Espionage with @RoryCormac #Coup #covertaction #Espionage #GreyDynamicsPodcast #secretIntelligence greydynamics.com/episode-16-…

The #FBI jumped into action only when they noticed #ViktorOrban and #PrinceSalman enter the country with suitcases full of money two weeks ago. #Orban is Putin’s bag man and #PrinceSalman pays his own duty tax for #SecretIntelligence. Why did they negotiate with a #traitor?

„Secret Intelligence war selten völlig secret“ – Der Militärhistoriker Sönke Neitzel spricht im Interview über die Rolle der Geheimdienste im Ukraine-Krieg: uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichte… #UkraineKrieg #Ukraine #Krieg #Geheimdienste #SecretIntelligence

ရုရှားရဲ့ ယူကရိန်းစစ်နဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ထောက်လှမ်းရေးရဲ့ လျှို့ဝှက်သတင်းတွေကို အများပြည်သူသိရှိအောင် ထုတ်ပြန်နေတာဟာ ပမာဏအားဖြင့်ရော ထုတ်ပြန်တဲ့ နှုန်းအားဖြင့်ပါ အရင်တုန်းက ... #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #SecretIntelligence #IntelligenceInformation tinyurl.com/2c9ecpyn

When Is a State Secret Not a Secret? #nation #state #NationalSecurity #SecretIntelligence #intel #war #law #InternationalLaw lawfareblog.com/when-state-s…

You can find #SecretIntelligence in the @RecordedFuture platform. daily.

ICYMI: @scotthortonshow invites Mark Curtis to analyze Britain’s Secret Role in Syria and Yemen in the latest episode. scotthorton.org/interviews/7… #Syria #Yemen #Britain #secretintelligence #SaudiArabia #YemenCantWait #EndTheBlockade