Preident Macron of France criticised his intelligence services for not warning his government of the coup in Niger that overthrew a pro-French government last week. France has been forced to evacuate hundreds of its citizens as a pro-Russian Niger military force took over. He said they did not see “anything …
In the wake of the (barely believable) news that thousands of classified emails from the Pentagon have mistakenly been sent to Russian ally Mali (see below – https://spyingtoday.com/2023/07/22/how-to-succeed-in-espionage-without-really-trying/) the UK’s Ministry of Defence has admitted that it has committed the same error. The problem is caused by typing .ML (Mali) …
Turkey has been outraged by recent incidents in Sweden where right-wing activists have publicly burned copies of the Koran. However, the Swedish defence ministry has said that these incidents have been manufactured by Russian agents. Carl-Oskar Bohlin, the Civil Defence Minister said: “Sweden is the target of a disinformation campaign …
It isn’t always easy to get rid of spies. Members of the Sudanese Directorate of the General Intelligence Service (known as the NISS) have been offered money to leave the service and go into retirement. The NISS is more like a private army than an intelligence service and some of …
Someone is flying drone swarms over Colorado. Local residents have reported swarms of up to seventeen drones flying organised patterns over grids that appear to be up to twenty-five kilometres square. The drones are of considerable size, five or six feet across, suggesting considerable financial investment in the project. This …