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New addition Book: Intelligence Prioritisation in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers: Information Requirements for a Globalised UK by James Thomson (published 30-10-2026) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003619543/intelligence-prioritisation-age-mid-tier-powers-james-thomson

taylorfrancis.comIntelligence Prioritisation in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers | InformationThis book examines how UK intelligence and national security priorities can best inform foreign policy strategy in the emerging geopolitical order. It analyses
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New addition Blog post: Preventing intelligence politicisation means more than just avoiding partisanship by Chris Taylor (published 22-10-2026) https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/preventing-intelligence-politicisation-means-more-than-just-avoiding-partisanship/

aspistrategist.org.auPreventing intelligence politicisation means more than just avoiding partisanship | The StrategistUpholding the apolitical nature of Australian intelligence is critical to the agencies’ ability to deliver in the national interest, especially as our strategic circumstances deteriorate. But avoiding politicisation means more than just avoiding partisanship. The ...
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New addition Podcast: Unraveling a Secret KGB Investigation That Separated a Father and Son by Sasha Ingber (published 20-10-2026) https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/755/notes

thecyberwire.comUnraveling a Secret KGB Investigation That Separated a Father and SonThe Kremlin is not a fan of Alex Goldfarb. He left the Soviet Union as a scientist, becoming a prominent author and human rights activist. In 2006, he was in the room with ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, reading his dying words, which accused Vladimir Putin of assassination by radioactive polonium. Today, Alex's memoir, Refusenik's Son, traces a complicated family history made clear only decades later. His father, David, was a Jewish scientist denied permission to leave the Soviet Union - one of the so-called "refuseniks." David had been a prominent microbiologist in the 1970s and '80s, when Moscow's secret bioweapons program was under development. But only after an exiled KGB officer contacted Alex in 2010 did the full reason for his father's confinement become clear. It's a winding story involving an anthrax accident and a media leak, a Soviet scientist and a U.S. journalist trying to help him. Two men pulled unknowingly into a tide of suspicion.
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New addition Journal article: International politics: special issue of the journal of international politics on private sector geopolitical and security intelligence by Angela Miller Lewis et al. (published 17-10-2026) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-026-00827-9

doi.orgInternational politics: special issue of the journal of international politics on private sector geopolitical and security intelligence - International PoliticsAbstract As corporations and other private sector organizations increasingly navigate and shape international politics, intelligence capabilities have become critical to understanding geopolitical and security risks and informing organizational decision-making. Despite its long history and growing significance, private sector intelligence remains an under examined field of scholarly inquiry, with limited conceptual clarity and a fragmented body of literature. This introduction situates private sector security intelligence within the broader study of international politics, distinguishing it from competitive intelligence, government intelligence contracting, and other adjacent domains. It introduces the contributions to this special issue, which bring together scholarly and practitioner perspectives to examine the field's evolving professional identity, methodologies, organizational structures, applications, and ethical considerations. Collectively, these contributions illuminate the distinctive characteristics and challenges of intelligence conducted by and for private sector organizations, while identifying opportunities for further research. In doing so, the special issue seeks to advance conceptual clarity, encourage systematic scholarly inquiry, and support the continued professionalization of private sector intelligence as a distinct domain of study and practice.
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New addition Journal article: ‘Intelligence’ in function but not in name: analyzing terminology and trends in the job market by Angeliki Martinou et al. (published 16-10-2026) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-026-00833-x

doi.org‘Intelligence’ in function but not in name: analyzing terminology and trends in the job market - International PoliticsPrivate sector intelligence uses a vast array of terminology that obscures the boundaries, clear definition and demarcation of the field. This paper presents original empirical research to analyze job responsibilities and terminology. It first examines 2245 job postings in the UK through an ‘intelligence analyst’ query, then engages qualitatively and quantitatively with 425 global postings. The results reveal that private sector intelligence positions appear under a myriad of titles and descriptions that lack standardization, reflecting a wide array of roles and responsibilities which contribute to a murky recruitment environment. This variability contributes to a ‘grey zone’ of intelligence roles and reflects the need for greater understanding of private sector intelligence functions, to delineate what truly constitutes intelligence in the private sector.
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New addition Journal article: An integrated passive reconnaissance and OSINT correlation framework for unified cyber intelligence gathering by Y. Manohar Reddy, Muniraju Naidu Vadlamudi (published 11-10-2026) https://doi.org/10.1007/s44354-026-00051-0

doi.orgAn integrated passive reconnaissance and OSINT correlation framework for unified cyber intelligence gathering - Discover NetworksPassive reconnaissance has become increasingly significant in helping analysts obtain intelligence about target systems without directly interacting with them. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) provides valuable information that can support security assessment, cyber investigation, and forensic analysis. However, information obtained from multiple sources is often redundant, fragmented, and represented in different formats. In this research, an Integrated Passive Reconnaissance and OSINT Correlation Framework is proposed to integrate information gathered from multiple passive intelligence sources, including WHOIS, DNS enumeration, search engine footprinting, and network path analysis. The framework performs information collection, normalization, entity correlation, and consolidation to generate a unified intelligence profile. Through entity correlation across different intelligence sources, the proposed framework reduces redundant information and improves the completeness and consistency of the gathered intelligence. To evaluate the framework, experiments were conducted using publicly available domain-related data. The collected information was processed to assess the framework’s capability to gather, normalize, correlate, and organize intelligence obtained from different OSINT sources. The evaluation used a dataset comprising 1,781 instances and 12 intelligence attributes extracted from multiple reconnaissance sources. The results achieved an attribute availability rate of 90.11% and demonstrated the generation of unified intelligence profiles from the collected reconnaissance information. The findings indicate that integrating heterogeneous passive reconnaissance sources can provide a more complete and structured representation of target intelligence, thereby reducing the manual effort required to consolidate information from multiple sources. The proposed framework provides a foundation for more efficient cyber intelligence gathering and can be extended in future work by incorporating additional OSINT sources and advanced correlation techniques.
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New addition Report: Constrained yet Dangerous: The Wartime Evolution of Russia’s Intelligence Ecosystem by Sanshiro Hosaka (published 28-09-2026) https://icds.ee/en/adapting-to-war-the-evolution-of-russias-intelligence-ecosystem/

icds.eeConstrained yet Dangerous: The Wartime Evolution of Russia’s Intelligence Ecosystem - International Centre for Defence and SecuritySince the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s intelligence ecosystem has redirected its priorities toward supporting the war effort while adapting to a more constrained and contested operational and strategic environment.
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New addition Podcast: A Plan to Be Captured: How Three American Commandos Deceived Their Nazi Captors Before D-Day by Jason Bell (published 06-10-2026) https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/753/notes

thecyberwire.comA Plan to Be Captured: How Three American Commandos Deceived Their Nazi Captors Before D-DayIn the spring of 1944, three elite commandos parachuted into Hungary. The country was aligned with Nazi Germany, and these men intended to be captured in what was meant to look like a failed operation. Their real mission was to help Hungary switch to the Allied side. But three days later, Germany launched a preemptive invasion. The men were captured by the Nazis, imprisoned, and interrogated. They used their interrogation as a chance to fool Adolf Hitler into thinking an Allied invasion would come from southeastern Europe, drawing German troops away from Normandy ahead of D-Day. Author Jason Bell unravels this daring and untold story in his new book, Operation Sparrow.
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New addition Blog post: Decision-shaping: the ethical responsibility in intelligence work by Roseleen Woodman (published 05-10-2026) https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/decision-shaping-the-ethical-responsibility-in-intelligence-work/

aspistrategist.org.auDecision-shaping: the ethical responsibility in intelligence work | The StrategistIntelligence professionals carry an unrecognised ethical responsibility. It arises when they shape what political decision-makers come to know, which risks are held to be salient, and which options appear available. Intelligence ethics is still too ...
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New addition Thesis: Were the state’s intelligence activities during th... by Eleanor L. Williams (published 01-10-2026) https://orr.qub.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Were_the_state_s_intelligence_activities_during_the_conflicts_in_Northern_Ireland_1969-1998_and_Colombia_1978-2016_ethical_/32634309/1

orr.qub.ac.ukWere the state’s intelligence activities during the conflicts in Northern Ireland (1969-1998) and Colombia (1978-2016) ethical?The Northern Irish and Colombian conflicts are used as case studies internationally regarding how to combat terrorism. Nonetheless, key questions remain unanswered: how did state intelligence combat terrorism? Was this effort conducted ethically? This study uses Omand and Phythian’s Just Intelligence framework to analyse the ethicality of the state’s intelligence activities conducted in the Northern Irish (1969-1998) and Colombian (1978-2016) conflicts. It suggests that most state intelligence activities carried out during the Northern Irish and Colombian conflicts were ethical. State intelligence in both cases were least ethical at the beginning of conflicts, and in both cases the state behaved more ethically as the conflicts progressed. It emerges that some state intelligence agencies acted more ethically than others. However, the big questions are, why was this? Why was there a variation? Why did some actors behave more ethically than others? Why were there more ethical periods at different points of each conflict? Why did different state organisations do different things? This research argues that the ethicality of activities varied in both conflicts primarily because of a lack of guidance; lack of coordination between intelligence agencies; nuanced approaches regarding how to approach terrorism between different arms of the state; intentionally correcting behaviour and learning from mistakes; and political factors. The conclusions of this thesis matter for those studying the ethics of intelligence because practically it provides greater understanding of intelligence’s role in countering terrorism. Furthermore, it proves that some unethical intelligence procedures exacerbate conflicts and hinder peace processes from occurring. Therefore, it is necessary to revaluate how governments confront terrorism. Especially as, rightly or wrongly, the Northern Irish and Colombian conflicts are used as case studies internationally regarding how to combat terrorism. This thesis highlights the right lessons which should be drawn from the Northern Irish and Colombian cases. Thesis is embargoed until 31 July 2028.
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New addition Book chapter: Omagh: The Dichotomy between Intelligence Collection and Criminal Investigations in Countering Terrorism by Norman Baxter et al. (published 01-01-2026) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781042001040-4/omagh-norman-baxter

taylorfrancis.comOmagh | 4 | The Dichotomy between Intelligence Collection and CriminalIn August 1998, Northern Ireland was emerging from three decades of conflict. The government of the United Kingdom had hoped that the Good Friday Agreement
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New addition Blog post: Armatoloi and Klephts in the Crossfire of Empire: Local P... by Anastasios Nikolaos Kanellopoulos (published 26-08-2026) https://statestrait.com/2026/08/26/armatoloi-and-klephts-in-the-crossfire-of-empire-local-power-intelligence-and-imperial-rivalry-in-ottoman-greece/

statestrait.comArmatoloi and Klephts in the Crossfire of Empire: Local Power, Intelligence and Imperial Rivalry in Ottoman GreeceLong before intelligence became a specialised function of the modern state, political power in the Ottoman Balkans depended heavily on people who knew the terrain, controlled armed followers, maint…