Retirement

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 …

Drones

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 …

Madagascar and Russia

A BBC investigation has raised concerns that Russian intelligence services attempted to interfere in the 2018 elections in Madagascar. If this is true then it would fit Russia’s current strategy of undermining elections in democratic countries as a way of creating influence. In some countries this attack is electronic. Madagascar …