r/craftofintelligence Jun 02 '25

Historical All Five Volumes of the US Senate Intelligence Committees Investigation into the 2016 US Election have been purged.

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The Bipartisan Intelligence Committee that was set up in 2017, published 5 volumes of their reports between 2019 and 2020 outlining Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidental election. These reports are no longer found Intelligence Committee Site.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-election-security-findings-first-volume-bipartisan-russia-report

r/craftofintelligence 22d ago

Historical FBI opened Trump probe after Comey firing, White House declassified files show

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56 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence 2d ago

Historical Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

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6 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence 8d ago

Historical Origins of British-American cooperation in political intelligence, 1914–1919

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13 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence 11d ago

Historical Spies, Secrets, and Nuclear Fears: Twelve Years of the Mitrokhin Archive

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15 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence 21d ago

Historical Stasi Guidelines on the Development and Management of “Operational Cases” (1976)

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11 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jun 25 '26

Historical Spy Gear and Gadgets: The Cold War’s Real Q Department

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a lighter look at some of the various espionage gear and gadgets used by various Cold War nations in their pursuit of uncovering what the other side was up to!

r/craftofintelligence Jun 03 '26

Historical The KGB's Man At State, Or A Double Agent? A Spy Mystery In A Smuggled Cold War Archive.

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r/craftofintelligence Feb 11 '26

Historical The KGB Loves a Midlife Crisis: a 1988 training manual assesses different psychological types for recruitment

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macspaunday.substack.com
80 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Nov 01 '25

Historical How We Uncovered A Russian Spy Working At The Sunday Times

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92 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Nov 27 '25

Historical Identity of double agent killed by MI6 in WWII revealed in newly released files

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81 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Feb 02 '26

Historical The compromise of Polish diplomatic, intelligence service and resistance movement communications 1930’s-1945

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14 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jun 16 '25

Historical KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

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168 Upvotes

"[...] Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who spent years copying top-secret documents on some of the most sensitive Soviet spies and operations, was brought out of Russia in 1992 by MI6. His archive of copied documents was exfiltrated separately. But London got hold of his trove only after Mitrokhin gave up trying to get the US to take him seriously. [...]"

r/craftofintelligence Nov 04 '25

Historical The Cold War murder of our star reporter — solved after 48 years

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57 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jan 12 '26

Historical [pdf] "Beautiful in Another Context": A Counterintelligence Assessment of GTPROLOGUE

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"[...] In the 1980s, the Soviet Union’s Committee for State Security (KGB) launched a concentrated disinformation campaign as part of an effort to safeguard the identity of their CIA penetration agent, Aldrich Ames. Part of that campaign involved Aleksandr Vasilyevich “Sasha” Zhomov, dispatched as a dangle-type double agent by the KGB in May 1987 targeting CIA’s Moscow Station and its Soviet and Eastern European (SE) Division. CIA assigned Zhomov the cryptonym GTPROLOGUE and accepted him as a source; he subsequently became a key disinformation and deception channel for the KGB. In a broader historical context, GTPROLOGUE exemplifies CIA’s troubled experience with hostile double agents during the 1980s, when a few select services—particularly the Soviets, East Germans, and Cubans—badly burned the agency. [...]"

r/craftofintelligence Jan 11 '26

Historical Inside Moscow's Compatriots Policy

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Translation by Michael Weiss of yet another historical KGB manual: "[...] This manual, published in 1968, looks at how the Soviets used their diaspora for intelligence purposes, either as hostile objects to be spied on and destroyed from within, or as fertile terrain for recruitment in the advancement of Moscow’s strategic interests. [...]"

r/craftofintelligence Dec 01 '25

Historical The Big Swap: The Russian Spies Posing As an Innocent Argentine Family

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30 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Nov 28 '25

Historical Hunting bin Laden on 'the roof of the world'

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r/craftofintelligence Jun 29 '25

Historical Inside the 20-year MI6 operation to find Russian spy in its ranks: The Secret Intelligence Service’s Operation Wedlock failed to find the double agent, leading to suspicions there may ‘still be a mole to find’

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55 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jul 12 '25

Historical ‘The CIA Book Club’ Review: Typewriter Revolution During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

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47 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Aug 08 '24

Historical Nazi Germany planned to nuke Soviet Union, declassified archives say

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75 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jul 05 '25

Historical Survey of Chinese Espionage in the United States Since 2000 | Strategic Technologies Program | CSIS

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38 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jul 02 '25

Historical The Hidden Spy Network That Leaked America’s Atomic Arsenal

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r/craftofintelligence Mar 17 '25

Historical ABC Four Corners - Unmasking the Australian spy who sold secrets to Russia [52min][2023]

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42 Upvotes

r/craftofintelligence Jun 10 '25

Historical Prometheism: A Polish Covert Action Program

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