Mark Perch

Re Andor: Are we just going to to ignore the blatant intelligence failure of imperial intel/sec agencies? BBY1 and neither the ISB nor ‘Military Intelligence’ had a clue about Yavin. Despite the fact that the rebels had a huge intake of ppl, a bad vetting process and let ppl leave all the time.

S9 Ep15: Russian Spy Ships and undersea cables with Florian Flade Secrets and Spies - A Spy & Geopolitics Podcast · Episode

The Hybrid War at Sea: Recently I was interviewed for the podcast @secretsandspies.bsky.social about Russian spy
operations in the #BalticSea and #NorthSea - and about the increasing threat of sabotage on critical undersea infrastructure: open.spotify.com/episode/7EYQ... #Estlink1 #Russia

Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk The Trump administration is negotiating the return of more Russian diplomats to the United States. Some are likely to be spies.

“‘If I were sitting in Yasenevo or Lubyanka and targeting Americans, I would be rubbing my hands with glee,’ said Paul Kolbe [former chief of CIA’s Russia House]…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

Im Satellitenkrieg – DATUM Die russische UN-Botschaft in der Wiener Donaustadt ist eine der größten Spionage­stationen Europas. Unser Autor beobachtet sie seit Jahren und hat dabei dokumentiert: Die Satelliten des Kreml kommen ...

The Russian UN Mission in Vienna serves as one of Europe’s most important espionage hubs. A #SIGINT station there specifically targets data from Western communication satellites. SES-5 from SES Luxembourg is also affected 1/6 datum.at/im-satellite...

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

#MICE sums up the key reasons people commit treason or turn into insider threats: #Money for financial gain, #Ideology driven by beliefs, #Compromise through blackmail, and #Ego, whether for power, recognition, or revenge www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Слава Україні!

#slavaukraini

Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

Desperate times call for… *checks notes*

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzer...

Not if the Poles get their hands on a nuke first…

Exclusive | A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West The Department of Special Tasks has brought together veterans of the Kremlin’s most daring clandestine operations to carry out assassination attempts and sabotage overseas.

Sabotage, assassinations & infiltration threaten Germany’s defense industry, infrastructure & politics. Seen as NATO’s weak link, Germany is now a prime target for Russian covert ops. Putin's sabotage unit, the Special Tasks Department #SSD 1/3 www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I servizi segreti russi - conferme anche dal Wsj - hanno creato nel 2023 un Dipartimento per le missioni speciali, diretto da Andrei Averyanov, vice Ivan Kasyanenko, per operazioni segrete contro l'Occidente (tra cui un tentativo di assassinio dell'ad di Rheinmetall) che ha assorbito l’ex 29155

Change of government in Austria: „The FPÖ was a gateway for Russian intelligence gathering […] Russia will continue to exploit these connections”

Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, spent years financing terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and coalition forces. An investigation by The Insider has not only confirmed the ex...

New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @theins.press has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. Unit 29155 was behind this operation.
theins.press/en/politics/...

🚁🏆 GUR the first in the world to destroy an air target using a Magura V5 naval drone. During the battle in the Black Sea and Crimea, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by R-73 “SeeDragon” missiles.
 
💥 Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction.

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Im my mailbox this morning…

Covert City ordered.
See, you are not so bad at self promotion after all…

An affectionate return to le Carré’s best-loved character John le Carré’s most famous creation, the British spy George Smiley, was conceived as a complete antithesis to James Bond – being unsexy, middle-aged,

'Nick Harkaway has honoured John le Carré with a work of real attention and affection, as good as most of his father's books, and better than several. It is heartening to know that there might be more.' – Times Literary Supplement

www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

Wonder where Assad is going to end up:

a) Cozy house in Qatar?

b) Breadline in a Russian province?

b) Being dragged out of an earth hole a few miles from Damascus?

If his parachute actually worked…

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December is GRU month at @theins.press. I mean, every month more or less is—but this month is especially so. Several big investigations dropping. All of them long in the works.

Free Pablo and Fancy Bear: GRU illegal Pavel Rubtsov got a warm welcome home in Moscow by a hacker on the FBI Most Wanted List In August 2024, the world witnessed an unprecedented prisoner swap between the West and the Kremlin: Russia agreed to release 16 individuals, including political prisoners Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya...

theins.ru/en/politics/...

The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under the Four Powers Agreement, Det A was on twenty four hour standby in Berlin in the event that the USSR

Russia is conducting active spy operations on the European continent. At various levels and with many means. This is shown in a recent report by Radio Tele Suisse and SRF on the espionage activities of the Russian mission in Geneva in Switzerland. But there's more 1/5

Me being told by imperial leadership that the rebellion surely is an exaggerated problem while the senate is cutting the staff budget of the ISB…

I can totally relate… Team Yankee at the Fulda Gap…

US govt officials’ communications compromised in recent telecom hack CISA and the FBI confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers' networks.

CISA and the FBI confirmed that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

🇪🇺🚫 EU countries have started compiling a 15th round of Russia sanctions, despite a potential U-turn in US foreign policy, EUobserver

The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.

Must resist temptation… 😄