👀 SIS/MI6 source in Nimes, France, providing an excellent illustration of a German Schwimmwagen in September 1943.

It should be noted that, in addition to the US and Great Britain, the Australians and the Dutch also worked on JN-25. doi.org/10.1080/0161...

Also, perfect (and elegant) advice from the great Ebenezer Obadare: "Study history first. History is the queen of the social sciences, or the humanities. [...] When you study history, it's almost like cheating."

🚨Très heureux d'intervenir dans le cycle de conférences sur le renseignement de l'IRSEM pour présenter mon livre 📚 *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* Mercredi 26 novembre à 18h30 (en ligne) Inscription⬇️ www.irsem.fr/agenda/confe...

📚 Publication de Raphaël Ramos, chercheur associé au laboratoire CRISES : La puissance et l'ombre, 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique, aux éditions du Cerf ⏬ @univpaulvalery.bsky.social

Former @nsarchive.bsky.social FOIA coordinator Nate Jones discovered that the State Department deleted already declassfied records from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. Today, the Archive published the censored documents.

Really, NYT? "The F.B.I.’s relationship with MI5 is arguably the most important in Five Eyes" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Profile of Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social "The idea that our intelligence posture is being shaped by someone with no authority, no qualifications, and a history of dangerous conspiracy mongering is unprecedented and dangerous", he told Intelligence Online. www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

Profile of Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social "The idea that our intelligence posture is being shaped by someone with no authority, no qualifications, and a history of dangerous conspiracy mongering is unprecedented and dangerous", he told Intelligence Online. www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

Merci à Romain Gubert pour cet entretien dans @lepoint.fr en marge de la parution de mon livre *La puissance et l'ombre* www.lepoint.fr/monde/commen...

As reported by Intelligence Online 15 days ago... www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Cerf de mon livre : *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* Une synthèse à la bonne hauteur et à la bonne distance qui réexamine l'histoire des États-Unis à la lumière du renseignement.

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Cerf de mon livre : *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* Une synthèse à la bonne hauteur et à la bonne distance qui réexamine l'histoire des États-Unis à la lumière du renseignement.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard has decided to suspend publication of the Global Trends report, which every four years identifies the main trends likely to shape the strategic environment over the next two decades. www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aux Editions du Cerf de mon livre : *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* Une histoire du renseignement aux États-Unis de Washington à Trump, en librairie le 25 septembre ! www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/li...

Declassified documents pull back the curtain on Reagan’s crusade against nuclear weapons — and the resistance inside his own team.

OTD July 30 1956 President Eisenhower signs into law H.R. 619 (84th), mandating that "In God We Trust” be included on all US currency. Although the phrase had been included on minted coinage since 1864, paper currency had maintained the phrase "E Pluribus Unum". With the onset of the Cold War,

New research from me - published in the @officialbaas.bsky.social Journal of American Studies - on William Raborn's tenure as Director of Central Intelligence. 🇺🇲 Including the Dominican Intervention, Vietnam, and some tragicomic anecdotes. Available Open Access 🔓: shorturl.at/PG4Eb

J'ai pisté des mercenaires européens (français notamment) dans la guerre civile en Birmanie, dont deux légionnaires d'active, jusqu'à Laukkaing. Cela donne cette enquête en quatre épisodes, dont le premier épisode est en accès libre. www.intelligenceonline.fr/renseignemen...

Intelligence Online broke the story 2 months ago with ISC chair Lord Beamish saying: "The Committee has examined all the alternatives and decided that the model which best guarantees its independence is for its Office to be established as an independent body corporate".

You can tell outsiders are in charge at Langley (viz., “the CIA” instead of simply “CIA.”

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Retrouvez le 1er épisode de notre série sur la toute puissante direction nationale du renseignement américain. Focus du jour sur la patronne actuelle, la très trumpienne Tulsi Gabbard @Intel_Online_Fr Par @raphaelramos.bsky.social www.intelligenceonline.fr/renseignemen...

This means I now have negative 4 security clearances

“This opens a door on a whole history of collaboration between the Vatican and the C.I.A., which, boy, would be explosive if we could get documents about,” said Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Shocked to see the Trump administration apparently shutting @wilsoncenter.org (I thought I saw only 30% of its funding is federal - can it survive still?). I was honoured once enough to be affiliated there and was always impressed by the quality of its expertise. USA self-harming

We have a cover! My thanks to Georgetown University Press for their hard work. Photo of the "father of intelligence analysis" Sherman Kent in a very un-pc pose!

"The Committee has therefore decided that we will be moving out of the Cabinet Office, and out of the Executive," Jones told Intelligence Online. www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.

This is a wildly inappropriate thing for her to say as DNI. Partisan politics is way out of her lane. This is positively destructive of the norm that intelligence is to be apolitical. Why should it be apolitical? Because intel is literally worse than useless if it’s written to please.

From the CIA archives: ”Russian Tactics in International Negotiations: A Guide for American Negotiators”, ca. 1952.

Breaking - White House is forcing out top leadership at the National Archives. “The exodus of senior staff is seen as a huge loss for the agency, which is considered nonpartisan and dedicated to the preservation of history and documents.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

Are we living through a golden age of espionage drama? 🗣️ @alastairbenn.bsky.social is joined by David Omand, Pauline Blistène and @paullay.bsky.social to discuss the enduring popularity of the spy in fiction. 🎙️The myth and magic of spy fiction | EI Podcasts audioboom.com/posts/865349...

“Russian interference in Western democracy has been overstated in the U.S. and Europe,” Vance said. 😳 Wow. A patently false statement. He also just undercut a decade of work by the US ntl security community, working with European allies to counter Moscow. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The Senate is poised to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, sparking fears of politicization. For those interested in the problem of politicized intelligence, see here: www.amazon.com/Fixing-Facts...

Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

So it seems that the power grab on US federal infrastructure involves taking control of digital (specifically software) infrastructure. That's likely the reason why DOGE replaced the US Digital Service.

This idea of opposing human intelligence and analysis is an operational nonsense, which only reflects fantasies of tough guys. The ability to project power abroad through covert ops and to recruit high-value human sources is rooted in the ability to comprehend the environment in which you operate.

“The spy agency's new director John Ratcliffe has pledged to focus on human intelligence and covert action, overseen by the directorate of operations, rather than analysis, which is seen as a legacy of the Obama and Biden years.” www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

The use and abuse of the Cuban Missile Crisis | @radchenko.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...

New article published in the journal Intelligence and National Security titled "‘All the Heroes are Dead:’ U.S. Covert Operations in Ukraine, 1949-1953" by Thomas Boghardt, available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I feel the headline rather overstates the “split”. As reported, the two dissenting agencies say there is a roughly 50/50 chance of a hostile foreign actor being responsible. And they say it with “low confidence”. That’s a pretty cautious assessment.

NEW FOIA Files EXCLUSIVE: I obtained more 800 pages of Kash Patel's emails (and thousands more are coming) during his stint at ODNI, which offer some insight into how he might lead FBI & raise questions as to whether he’ll use his position to settle political scores www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A lire sur Intelligence Online l'excellente série de @raphaelramos.bsky.social sur les années Burns à la #CIA www.intelligenceonline.fr/renseignemen...

John Ratcliffe's appeal to Trump is clear: He’s a political operator willing to push the boundaries of a historically apolitical profession in a manner that serves the president’s interests. As the CIA director, how far will he go? My new profile in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Jimmy Carter: A Declassified Obituary Highest-level national security documents reveal tough-minded, detail-oriented president nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Now here's an interesting new resource: proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/64?eTyp...

From 2022, when @azelin & I, together with/an analyst from the NIC, looked at Al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and the Future of Jihadism. That future is now www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...