Daniela Richterova

🙌 Delighted to have taken part in the @camsecurity.bsky.social ISI Summer School of '25.

🚨 Enjoyed lecturing & discussing the history & contemporary relevance of #sabotage. More coming soon!

🎓 Wishing the cohort all the best in their pursuit of understanding or shaping #internationalsecurity.

@warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcsi.uk @camsecurity.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social #skystorians

Many 🙏 to Dr Rosie Johnston & @recetvienna.bsky.social in Vienna for hosting me on the #TransformativePodcast: shorturl.at/X6Do9.

Do check out Rosie's fantastic research on the #ColdWar politics of #audiojournalism & her team's project on global politics of #Czechoslovak #weapons: shorturl.at/NStm2

@kcsi.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @camsecurity.bsky.social @cepa.org @socintelhist.bsky.social @maxinedavid.bsky.social #skystorians

🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin?

🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇

Still #Commandos, wild Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

#SpyGems

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Our Favorite Books for a Last-Minute Father’s Day Gift Looking for a Father’s Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.

Many 🙌 @nytimes.com for including #WatchingTheJackals in your Father’s Day roundup — in my favourite category, no less:

"For the dad who’s still talking about The Americans finale."

If you're shopping for the espionage aficionado in your life (or just yourself), see full list: shorturl.at/nov9V

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BBC Four - Storyville, The Jackal Speaks A rare portrait of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as the infamous Carlos the Jackal.

📺 A new #BBCFour #Storyville documentary on #CarlosTheJackal now streaming on iPlayer. A sharp recap for those interested in the history & mythology of Cold War-era international terrorism.

Many 🙏 to the creators for bringing insights from 📚 #WatchingTheJackals to life on screen.

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Watching the Jackals: Cold War Terror, Espionage, and Prague’s Secret Role Podcast Episode · War Studies · 21/05/2025 · 48m

Who were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances?

🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode.

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Many thanks to @shaunwalker7.bsky.social & @christogrozev.bsky.social for a fantastic evening at @theguardian.com Live. 🙌

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Kremlin-friendly Slovak PM Fico, EU's lone Moscow partygoer Deaf to Brussels' pleas, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is heading to Moscow for the Victory Day festivities on Friday, the only leader of a European Union member state to attend.Another rally is s...

#shame

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💼 Had a fantastic time teaching @charlesuni.cuni.cz in Prague on CEE's ties w/ #ColdWarJackals.

The students excelled in the final simulation exercise on intel liaison — sharp analysis & fantastic visuals that brought their presentations to life.

Big 🙏 to Irena Kalhousova for making this happen!

@kcsi.uk / @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social / @warstudieskcl.bsky.social / @camsecurity.bsky.social / @socintelhist.bsky.social / #skystorians

Russia’s spies: Uncovering Russia’s secret espionage programmes Exploding weapons factories, assassination plots and fake news: Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war campaign against the West has stepped up several notches since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

📢 Join in person/online for @theguardian.com Live Events where I'll be speaking alongside christogrozev.bsky.social & @shaunwalker7.bsky.social about the UK's largest #spytrial and what it tells us about contemporary #espionage & #activemeasures.

22nd May / 19:30-21:00 / Register: shorturl.at/yY8cf

3/ To date, nearly all @wilsoncenter.org employees have been placed on leave by the Trump administration. I'm incredibly saddened by this, but remain grateful to C. Ostermann & C. Kraus for their service to Cold War scholarship.

I hope we’ll see this wonderful intellectual hub thrive again soon. 🙌

2/ This event was originally envisioned together with @wilsoncenter.org's Cold War International History Project (CWIHP). Since its founding in 1991, the CWIHP has supported first-rate scholarship and pioneered the release of historical materials from all sides of the Cold War.

1/ A warm thanks to @historians.org for hosting tonight’s Washington History Seminar on 📚 #WatchingTheJackals. It was a privilege to discuss this with @lucatrenta.bsky.social & Igor Lukes @bostonu.bsky.social.

🎧 #WatchingTheJackals is now on #Audible & in other audiobook stores near you.

Many thanks to @rbmediaco.bsky.social & #GUP for bringing this to life!

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📰 Very many thanks to @forbes.com Slovenskia & Milan Čupka for taking the time to discuss #WatchingTheJackals and #intelligencestudies.

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Strategic Intelligence: Empowering Business Executives

🚨Publication alert🚨A new Insights piece by Thea Gioe is online now, focusing on intelligence in the corporate world:
kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight.... It's a great insight into the increasing importance of intelligence for business leaders.

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Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe - War on the Rocks In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert operation was quietly revving into gear. Second-hand Chryslers and a

📑 My latest for @warontherocks.bsky.social:

#BulgarianSpies #JanMarsalek #OldBailey #WarInUkraine #FSB #GRU

The largest spy trial in UK history revealed an unusual espionage network & how Moscow's covert ops escalated shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Capping off week 1 of our ISI-Pro course, delegates heard from @kcsi.uk members Professor Sir David Omand on managing slow burning crises & @drichterova.bsky.social on #Russian #sabotage. Concluding the day was a candlelit formal hall dinner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Had a great 🇬🇧 book launch for Intelligence and Contemporary Conflict @kclcgs.bsky.social @kcsi.uk 💥

A big thanks to @drichterova.bsky.social @stevenbwagner.bsky.social and Philip Davies for discussing the collection and their contributions 🔥

If you missed it you can get a copy amzn.eu/d/2upuLlZ

@kcsi.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @camsecurity.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social #skystorians

Military Histories About Spies and Intelligence Services As Americans scrutinize the accidental leak of a high-level U.S. group chat, several books detail other mishaps in the annals of global conflict.

✍️ "Of several recent books on covert operations, the most enlightening is Watching the Jackals."
— The New York Times.

What a lovely surprise — and an exceptionally generous review in @nytimes.com. Huge thanks to Thomas E. Ricks for the generous words about #WatchingTheJackals.

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