Raphael Ramos

👀 SIS/MI6 source in Nimes, France, providing an excellent illustration of a German Schwimmwagen in September 1943.

Bletchley Park’s work on JN-25 This article describes the work done by codebreakers in the Naval Section at Bletchley Park on the primary World War II Japanese naval cipher JN-25. It also describes the relationship between the U...

It should be noted that, in addition to the US and Great Britain, the Australians and the Dutch also worked on JN-25. doi.org/10.1080/0161...

How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Ebenezer Obadare Ebenezer Obadare has explored the intricacies of African politics over the course of a career in journalism and academia. He sat down with CFR to talk about how he continues to challenge himself and …

Also, perfect (and elegant) advice from the great Ebenezer Obadare: "Study history first. History is the queen of the social sciences, or the humanities. [...] When you study history, it's almost like cheating."

🚨Très heureux d'intervenir dans le cycle de conférences sur le renseignement de l'IRSEM pour présenter mon livre

📚 *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique*

Mercredi 26 novembre à 18h30 (en ligne)

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📚 Publication de Raphaël Ramos, chercheur associé au laboratoire CRISES : La puissance et l'ombre, 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique, aux éditions du Cerf ⏬
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Former @nsarchive.bsky.social FOIA coordinator Nate Jones discovered that the State Department deleted already declassfied records from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. Today, the Archive published the censored documents.

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It

Really, NYT?

"The F.B.I.’s relationship with MI5 is arguably the most important in Five Eyes"

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United States • Mark Warner, the senator warning that US intelligence is being out-teched by China The White House's restrictions on congressional oversight, the erratic decisions of some officials and their impact on agencies' effectiveness, are causing concern in Congress, well beyond partisan

Profile of Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social

"The idea that our intelligence posture is being shaped by someone with no authority, no qualifications, and a history of dangerous conspiracy mongering is unprecedented and dangerous", he told Intelligence Online.

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United States • Mark Warner, the senator warning that US intelligence is being out-teched by China The White House's restrictions on congressional oversight, the erratic decisions of some officials and their impact on agencies' effectiveness, are causing concern in Congress, well beyond partisan

Profile of Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social

"The idea that our intelligence posture is being shaped by someone with no authority, no qualifications, and a history of dangerous conspiracy mongering is unprecedented and dangerous", he told Intelligence Online.

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Comment Donald Trump transforme la CIA en un outil au service de sa politique DÉCLASSIFIÉ. Dans un livre, le chercheur Raphaël Ramos revient sur la singularité des 250 ans de relations entre les responsables politiques et le renseignement aux États-Unis.

Merci à Romain Gubert pour cet entretien dans @lepoint.fr en marge de la parution de mon livre *La puissance et l'ombre*

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As reported by Intelligence Online 15 days ago...

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Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Cerf de mon livre :

*La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique*

Une synthèse à la bonne hauteur et à la bonne distance qui réexamine l'histoire des États-Unis à la lumière du renseignement.

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Cerf de mon livre :

*La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique*

Une synthèse à la bonne hauteur et à la bonne distance qui réexamine l'histoire des États-Unis à la lumière du renseignement.

United States • Tulsi Gabbard suspends release of strategic US intelligence report The latest four-yearly Global Trends report compiled by the National Intelligence Council, highly regarded due to its wide distribution and the interest it generates, has been deemed incompatible

DNI Tulsi Gabbard has decided to suspend publication of the Global Trends report, which every four years identifies the main trends likely to shape the strategic environment over the next two decades.

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Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aux Editions du Cerf de mon livre : *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique*

Une histoire du renseignement aux États-Unis de Washington à Trump, en librairie le 25 septembre !

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Power and Peril in Reagan’s Last Cold War Chapter - War on the Rocks On Aug. 1, 2025, the Office of the Historian published National Security Policy, 1985–1988 Part 1, which focused on President Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of

Declassified documents pull back the curtain on Reagan’s crusade against nuclear weapons — and the resistance inside his own team.

US one dollar bill, "In God We Trust" is printed above the word "ONE"

OTD July 30 1956 President Eisenhower signs into law H.R. 619 (84th), mandating that "In God We Trust” be included on all US currency.

Although the phrase had been included on minted coinage since 1864, paper currency had maintained the phrase "E Pluribus Unum". With the onset of the Cold War,

New research from me - published in the @officialbaas.bsky.social Journal of American Studies - on William Raborn's tenure as Director of Central Intelligence. 🇺🇲

Including the Dominican Intervention, Vietnam, and some tragicomic anecdotes.

Available Open Access 🔓: shorturl.at/PG4Eb

Cambodge/Chine/France/Myanmar : L'histoire secrète des mercenaires français pris dans l'enfer birman Mercenaires français en Birmanie (1/4) - Le 27 octobre 2023, dans les environs de Laukkaing, dans le nord de la Birmanie, douze étrangers sont capturés par un groupe ethnique rebelle. La plupart sont

J'ai pisté des mercenaires européens (français notamment) dans la guerre civile en Birmanie, dont deux légionnaires d'active, jusqu'à Laukkaing. Cela donne cette enquête en quatre épisodes, dont le premier épisode est en accès libre.

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Intelligence Online broke the story 2 months ago with ISC chair Lord Beamish saying: "The Committee has examined all the alternatives and decided that the model which best guarantees its independence is for its Office to be established as an independent body corporate".

You can tell outsiders are in charge at Langley (viz., “the CIA” instead of simply “CIA.”

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

États-Unis : Tulsi Gabbard, dynamiteuse du renseignement américain Les espions de la Maison blanche 1/4 – À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire de la direction du renseignement national, Intelligence Online revient sur les métamorphoses de cette fonction

Retrouvez le 1er épisode de notre série sur la toute puissante direction nationale du renseignement américain. Focus du jour sur la patronne actuelle, la très trumpienne Tulsi Gabbard @Intel_Online_Fr Par @raphaelramos.bsky.social

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This means I now have negative 4 security clearances

Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say. The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.

“This opens a door on a whole history of collaboration between the Vatican and the C.I.A., which, boy, would be explosive if we could get documents about,” said Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive.
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Shocked to see the Trump administration apparently shutting @wilsoncenter.org (I thought I saw only 30% of its funding is federal - can it survive still?). I was honoured once enough to be affiliated there and was always impressed by the quality of its expertise. USA self-harming

We have a cover! My thanks to Georgetown University Press for their hard work. Photo of the "father of intelligence analysis" Sherman Kent in a very un-pc pose!

United Kingdom : Lord Beamish's quest to revitalise intelligence oversight The former Labour MP Kevan Jones, known also as Lord Beamish, is the first member of the House of Lords to chair the Intelligence and Security Committee. Like his Tory predecessor at the ISC, he is

"The Committee has therefore decided that we will be moving out of the Cabinet Office, and out of the Executive," Jones told Intelligence Online.

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Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.

This is a wildly inappropriate thing for her to say as DNI. Partisan politics is way out of her lane. This is positively destructive of the norm that intelligence is to be apolitical. Why should it be apolitical? Because intel is literally worse than useless if it’s written to please.