On 8 February, Chancellor Angela Merkel formally opened the Bundesnachrichtendienst’s new headquarters in Berlin. The BND is Germany’s foreign intelligence service. The building has cost 1.1 Billion Euros, covers 25 square acres and houses 4,000 of the BND’s 6,500 staff. The BND’s technical surveillance section has apparently remained at its …
Some excellent investigative reporting from Associated Press (pub 11 February). Seven AP reporters based in seven different countries, working in conjunction with internet watchdog Citizen’s Lab of Toronto, have exposed an Israeli entrapment scheme. You can read the full report here: http://apnews.com/9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4. As well as being a fascinating and detailed …
8 February: The Daily Telegraph, which is one of the main contact points for the UK intelligence services, has “sources” that say that a third assassin is believed to have been part of the team that planted the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal. The …
Donald Trump has recommended ex-CIA officer and former Fox News reporter Lea Gabrielle to lead the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), the US agency (part of the Department of State) tasked with countering foreign disinformation attacks. The GEC was first established in April 2016 as attention focused on Russian disinformation efforts …
Former Major General Mark R Quantock has been appointed executive vice president of Strategic Accounts at Babel Street, a software analytics and data recovery company based in Washington. Babel Street specialises in “assigning and charting sentiment for social media in all of the 18 major world languages in near real …