Facing strong criticism from the public, media, and international partners, German intelligence agencies recently participated in two symposia to discuss challenges in the areas of espionage and hybrid threats ..read more

SEVERAL CASES OF CHINESE espionage have been announced recently in Europe. Thomas Reichenbach and Herwig and Ina Fischer —a married couple— were arrested on April 22, 2024, for illegal exports of dual use technology with military (naval) applications ..read more

FEW THINGS ARE AS valuable in the field of intelligence studies as delving into historical case work. Indeed, the study of intelligence history is indispensable for anyone wishing to engage in the contemporary setting of this often esoteric -yet critical- field. As an academic specializing in intelligence, I find Bill Mills' Agent of the Iron Cross: The Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke during World War I, to shed invaluable light on clandestine operations that unfolded on American soil during the tumult of World War I ..read more

AUTHORITIES IN GERMANY HAVE arrested a sixth person in less than a month, in connection with three separate cases of espionage orchestrated by Russian or Chinese intelligence ..read more

AUTHORITIES IN GERMANY and Poland have charged three individuals with working on behalf of Russian military intelligence in planning acts of sabotage and assassination on European soil. One of the plots allegedly involved an effort to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Another aimed to sabotage commercial airport facilities that are being managed by the United States military ..read more

ON GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 29, Egisto Ott, a former member of Austria’s now-dissolved domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT), was arrested in his house in Carinthia, Austria’s southernmost state. Ott had frequently been at the center of media attention in the past year, in connection with the network surrounding the fugitive financier and alleged spy Jan Maršálek, as well as alleged misconduct relating to carrying out illegal investigations of persons. Ott also seems to have been involved in an alleged attempt to create an ..read more

Almost by accident, we are now aware of the state of mind that the Shin Bet was in before the sudden attack by Hamas on October 7, which cost so many lives as a result of the agency's complacency ..read more

Before an ISIS-K attack killed nearly 100 people in Kerman, Iran, the U.S. government allegedly provided Tehran with “a private warning” of an imminent terrorist threat, which was ignored. It now appears that, once again, Washington had considerable intelligence insight into ISIS-K’s plans to strike inside Russia. Once again, however, its warnings appear to have fallen on deaf ears ..read more

AGENTS OF THE CUBAN government have “penetrated virtually every segment of the United States national security structure,” enabling Havana to share actionable intelligence with Russia and China, according to a new report ..read more

SINCE OCTOBER 7, 2024, when Israel was caught off guard by a sudden and highly damaging attack from Hamas, more information has surfaced regarding why there was no prior warning about the attack and the failures of Israeli intelligence in this regard ..read more