While human spies are the best-known way nations collect intelligence, there are several methods countries can use to spy on one another.
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Terror alerts, such as the one recently issued by the US and UK embassies in Abuja, should be taken seriously by the Nigerian government as well as citizens.
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
The story of a Dutch double agent who spied on the Stasi. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The US dramatically changed how it shares intelligence in the period before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
National security professionals and armchair sleuths alike are taking advantage of vast amounts of publicly available information and software tools to monitor geopolitical events around the world.
Investigations of the 9/11 attacks show that a short, unstable transition between two presidents can weaken US security. Trump’s sweeping staff changes compound the risk, experts say.
Tensions have emerged before over US-UK intelligence sharing, but the Johnson government’s decision over Huawei is different.
The US government wants to seize all the proceeds from Snowden’s new memoir.
Intelligence officials in many countries are concerned the company could be helping the Chinese government spy on companies, military units and government agencies.
US intelligence assessments have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to some degree. Trump prefers the Russian version of events.
In the hands of a legitimate president, the recent indictments against Russian nationals for interfering in the 2016 presidential election would have been a powerful tool at a summit. Not Donald Trump.
Gina Haspel is in hot water over the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’. And in decades past, the US imprisoned people for using the same methods.
No probable cause, no public records – this is not a typical criminal court.
Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
A professor who once held top secret clearance explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.
Was the London attacker acting alone? Was he really a soldier of the Islamic State? Research on the nature of jihadism in the West reveals possible answers.
The absence of any evidence to support Donald Trump’s claims is more than just about the president’s credibility – it goes to whether we can trust any information from the White House.
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Professor of Practice, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London
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Research Director of the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
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Deputy Director, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, Auburn University
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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Project Lead for International Technical Forensic Services Global Forensic Justice Center, Florida International University
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Teaching Associate, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, University of Richmond
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University