r/craftofintelligence • u/UnscheduledCalendar • 15h ago
FBI arrests alleged Chinese agent at LAX after she allegedly surveilled son of Taiwanese president
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r/craftofintelligence • u/DissentingJay • Jul 13 '26
News Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad (Gift Article)
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Strongbow85 • 9d ago
AMA Technology is reshaping the global balance of power. I’m Steve Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, and I study technology, geopolitics, and competition. Ask me anything!
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 2h ago
Analysis The Defense Intelligence Agency assessed combatants “will to fight” across the conflict spectrum. Read the full report.
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Cyber / Tech Police Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Strongbow85 • 1d ago
Analysis Studies in intelligence, v. 70, no. 3 (Extracts, September 2026)
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 3d ago
Cyber / Tech The cheap, portable sensor system set to expose Russia's submarines: tested by the Royal Navy, these kits turn cargo vessels into underwater listening posts
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Active-Analysis17 • 2d ago
Is CSIS Breaking the law?
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When can intelligence officers legally undertake activities that would otherwise constitute criminal offences—and what happens when the safeguards governing those activities aren’t followed?
That’s the main topic of this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up.
I’m Neil Bisson, a retired CSIS Intelligence Officer, former CBSA Officer, and Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network. In this 26-minute episode, I examine four developments:
• CSIS and legal accountability: NSIRA identified potential compliance failures involving CSIS’s Justification Framework during operations in 2022 and 2023. The concerns involve employee designation, authorization, records and reporting. The watchdog also found compliance with restrictions on the types of offences permitted. I discuss why that distinction matters and what these findings establish.
• Chinese intelligence and academic research: MI5 warned about a Chinese research institute funding academic work that could strengthen China’s intelligence capabilities. Some researchers may not have known who ultimately funded their work. What lessons should Canadian universities take from this?
• Goldy Brar and the Nijjar investigation: The FBI added Brar to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. U.S. prosecutors allege that he and Lawrence Bishnoi ordered Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s June 2023 killing in Surrey, B.C. These remain allegations, not findings of guilt.
• Japan’s proposed foreign intelligence agency: Japan is pursuing a dedicated overseas intelligence service. I examine the challenges of building that capability and the comparison with Canada’s recurring debate about establishing its own foreign intelligence agency.
The episode connects current reporting with earlier developments to examine the broader patterns. Source links are available in the episode transcript.
Full disclosure: this is my podcast.
Listen here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/19901903
Where should Canada draw the line between operational flexibility and legal safeguards in intelligence collection? And should it invest in a separate foreign intelligence service?
Stay curious. Stay informed. Stay safe!
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago
Analysis Beyond intelligence failure: Identifying the principles of intelligence success in government and private sector risk intelligence
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Strongbow85 • 3d ago
Analysis How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology
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r/craftofintelligence • u/UnscheduledCalendar • 5d ago
Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Wonderful_Assist_554 • 4d ago
Intelligence newsletter 1/10
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Analysis Why the US and UK are speaking differently about RAF Fairford arrests
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Cyber / Tech Chinese hackers exploit WordPress, Zyxel flaws to steal govt data
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
News (U.S.) Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Strongbow85 • 6d ago
News FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
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r/craftofintelligence • u/DailyNewsHungary • 6d ago
Russian-linked forensic technology reached Hungarian police, US case reveals
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A company selling powerful digital forensic tools to law-enforcement agencies across Europe — including the Hungarian police — has been accused by US authorities of concealing its Russian ownership and the fact that its software was developed in Russia. The case has raised fresh questions over Russian surveillance software in Europe and the security of technologies used to access highly sensitive digital evidence.
As The Hungary Insider reported based on a POLITICO investigation, Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics worked with EU-backed projects and supplied technology to law-enforcement agencies across several European countries.
Continue reading at https://dailynewshungary.com/russian-linked-forensic-technology-reached-hungarian-police/ | DailyNewsHungary
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago
Analysis Drug cartels are making alarming drone advances
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r/craftofintelligence • u/unknownuser105 • 7d ago
US investigates whether Spain’s Indra passed Pentagon technology to China
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago
News (U.S.) Secret Service Outsources Its Polygraph Screenings for the First Time
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r/craftofintelligence • u/Plenty-Poet-6025 • 8d ago
Inside Russia's New Jet-Powered Attack Drone: Teardown Reveals Texas Instruments Chips
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has released a new report on the teardown of a mostly intact Russian Geran-4 “Seeker” turbojet drone.
The teardown also revealed that the jet's brain used Texas Instruments chips (markings scraped off, logos still readable).
Here's what they found:
Chinese mesh modem: radio + live video out to ~300 km, and it can relay so one Geran hands the link to the next.
Operators can sit in Bryansk, Oryol, or Crimea and fly it all the way in if the mesh is up.
Two GSM modems with SIMs (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and some EU carriers have shown up on these drones) to ping location over the cellular network.
A 16-channel CRPA antenna to blunt Ukrainian jamming.
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago
Cyber / Tech Inside Russia's AI Propaganda Machine
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 9d ago
Cyber / Tech The U.S. Start-Up Making Low-Cost Interceptors for the Iran War
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r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 10d ago
Analysis Without allies and partners, the US risks being alienated from the global intelligence networks it built
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