Following our groundbreaking revelation that the CIA employs its own hairdressers (see “The Trouble with Disguise…” – February 22), we can now also reveal that the Agency is currently recruiting its own … map makers! CIA cartographers produce maps to aid in intelligence analysis and mission planning. The cartography sections …
The National Cyber Security Centre is (NCSC) preparing a brand new website. You can see the beta test site here: www.beta.ncsc.gov.uk This is part of a natural evolution in UK intelligence over the past thirty years. The revolution in computers and communications technology has seen GCHQ go from being a …
25 February: Jeremy Fleming, Director of GCHQ, has made a are public appearance to give a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore. Why Singapore? Well, it’s a nicer place to spend a few days than Cheltenham and the appearance was designed to reassure those in the …
BBC News is reporting that teaching of French and German in UK schools has dropped by half since 2013. (www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47334374) In 2017, the study shows that in thirty seven English local authorities there were fewer pupils taking GCSEs in foreign languages than at just one public school – Eton. However …
A blue plaque was erected on 25 February at 4 Taviton Street in London, the former home of SOE wireless operator Noor Inayat Khan. She was just 30 when she captured and executed by the Germans at Dachau concentration camp in 1944. Khan had an international background. She was born …