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Russian assassination networks, AI, and sabotage (opens the original)
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This morning, Candace Roundeaux and I discussed a number of important and pressing developments in Russian intelligence. There was the recent Justice Department announcement that charged five people in a global assassination network — including alleged recruiter Yuri Khrameev, a former colonel in the Russian intelligence services. The jobs included spying on and killing a Russian dissident in the United States for $40,000, as well as paying a U.S. citizen to surveil and murder someone in Lithuan
How the CIA captured Carlos the Jackal (opens the original)
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Before he became one of the world’s most notorious terrorists in the 1970s and ‘80s — inspiring movies, books, and even future terrorists — Carlos the Jackal was born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez to a privileged family in Venezuela.His father was a successful lawyer, but also a man so committed to Marxism that he named his three sons after the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Vladimir Lenin. “As a boy, this young future Carlos was in love with the idea of being an international
Pandas won’t cut it: ‘Best parts’ of the Trump-Xi meeting (opens the original)
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In this video, some context and observations on President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping.The Chinese president asserted on Thursday that the Thucydides Trap — when rifts between a rising power and ruling power lead to war — can be “overcome.” He announced the loan of two pandas to the Atlanta zoo and invited a big student exchange — one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most successful vectors for spying and stealing. (Example in the video and a whole podcast on this here.)Trump said the
Former intelligence officers’ warning before the midterm election (opens the original)
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“I think you’re going to see efforts to discredit election officials like we saw in Atlanta in 2020, specific election officials,” says former CIA analyst Gail Helt, one of the authors of a new Steady State report which warns that the Trump administration may intervene in the midterm election.“I think there’s going to be lawsuits against specific individuals, specific poll workers. I think there are going be phone calls made akin to [President Donald Trump asking Georgia’s Republican Secretary o
FBI personal data hacked, who is ShinyHunters? (opens the original)
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The FBI has been hacked, veteran hacker Vinny Troia confirmed to me this evening. And it’s a bad one.Now the CEO of dark web investigations firm Shadow Nexus, I previously interviewed Vinny about his communications with hackers and how he has sold data to agencies like the FBI.Vinny told me that he has been messaging today with hacker group ShinyHunters, who claimed the attack. He believes that ShinyHunters is actually just one man in his 20s, a guy who has cleared some $50 million from ransomwa
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