Emerging Defense Industries and the Growing Espionage Threat: A Case Study of Türkiye

Where is transatlantic intelligence-sharing headed under the Trump administration?

An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.

Intelligence as Covert Statecraft: The OSS, CIA’s Predecessor, in Neutral Turkey, 1939-1945

AI Companions May Be China's Next Recruitment Tool

When you’re sitting alone, and you want company or advice, have you ever turned to Artificial Intelligence? Chip Usher, who spent 32 years in the CIA, has been looking at AI companions. The tech...

Roald Dahl: The Spy Behind the Storyteller

Children grew up reading Roald Dahl’s tales of giant peaches and chocolate factories. Adults know about the controversy surrounding the antisemitic statements he made in his later years. But before...

In Bed With Beijing: The Double Agent Who Seduced Her FBI Handler

Katrina Leung, code name Parlor Maid, received nearly two million dollars from the FBI for being their top China informant. But little did the Bureau know… she was a double agent, collecting intell...

AI is revolutionising journalism. Intelligence is next | The Strategist

When Baghdad’s night sky erupted in tracer fire and explosions in 1991, it meant more than just Operation Desert Storm’s commencement. The resulting CNN effect—whereby 24/7 news reporting covered...

Economic espionage in the AI age demands new responses | The Strategist

Artificial intelligence is transforming economic cyber-espionage, but the protection of commercially valuable assets has not kept up. Governments and industry cannot rely on pre-AI defences to...

Fake Shahs and Exfiltrations: Memories from CIA's Former Disguise Chief

Jonna Mendez knows how to blend in and when to stand out. Starting out as a secretary at the CIA, she left as its Chief of Disguise. Her career took her into denied areas, where her special abilities...

When the CIA Lost a Nuclear Device in India

In the 1960s, the CIA lost a plutonium-fueled generator on top of a mountain in India. The generator was supposed to power an unmanned listening station, intended to pick up signals from China’s...

Intelligence and counterintelligence in the career of the Islamic Prophet Muḥammad

The study of Muḥammad’s exploitation of intelligence has received surprisingly limited analysis in scholarship. Biographers have long acknowledged that information – whether from scouts, spies, or ...

Leveraging data science to investigate intelligence failures

This article challenges the conventional assumption underpinning the ‘First Law of Intelligence Failure’ – that warning signs are always available, but ignored, prior to intelligence breakdowns. Em...

SIGINT below zero: the indications and warning role of Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1958–1975

Since 1958 Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert has been Canada’s most important signals intelligence base monitoring Russian military activity and communications in the Arctic. This article asks: h...

Promoting and evaluating Intelligence assessment quality: examining the problem through an accoun...

Intelligence studies scholars have discussed multiple criteria for promoting and evaluating intelligence assessment quality, including the degree to which intelligence organizations can tamp down o...

Five years of Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Review Agency: early successes, growing...

Canada’s national security review system has been overhauled in recent years. In this article, we assess the evolution of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, a pillar of this refo...

The politics of complicity: the CIA and the death of Che Guevara

This article analyzes the United States role in Bolivia’s 1967 operation to capture and execute Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Existing literature is marked by three interpretations. One dismisses claims o...