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1/ #SHEEHAN: “The growing cooperation between #Russia and #China – and correspondingly between Russia and #Iran, including a recent deal to sell the #Kremlin 1,000 war #drones – is cause for grave security concern. @ProfSheehan
2/ “The #Moscow-#Beijing-#Tehran nexus constitutes an #authoritarian axis that is likely to consume U.S. attention for the long future.” @ProfSheehan
3/ “Dep Direc of #CIA for #Counterintelligence Mark Kelton, a 34-year veteran of intelligence operations, suggested that the biggest winner in #Ukraine is #Beijing as #NATO failed to stop the Russian meatgrinder in Ukraine despite the harsh Biden sanctions policies.” @ProfSheehan
Once again the GRU gets caught with their hand in the proverbial cookie jar ... this time #Bulgaria
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence @NATO @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #EU #SCS #security #cybersecurity
news.clearancejobs.com/2021/03/21/bul…
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence @NATO @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #EU #SCS #security #cybersecurity
news.clearancejobs.com/2021/03/21/bul…
Bulgarian prosecutor's office details how 6 person spy-ring with access to the Bulgarian military and parliament operated.
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence #bulgaria @NATO @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #EU #SCS #security #cybersecurity
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence #bulgaria @NATO @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #EU #SCS #security #cybersecurity
Tasking?
The #GRU tasked for #SECRET info on #Bulgaria, #EU, #NATO & specifically the NSA, CIA and their joint SIGINT entity the SCS
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #SCS #security #cybersecurity
The #GRU tasked for #SECRET info on #Bulgaria, #EU, #NATO & specifically the NSA, CIA and their joint SIGINT entity the SCS
#espionage #russia #gru #natsec #intelligence #counterintelligence @EU_Commission @NSAGov @CIA @NCSCgov #SCS #security #cybersecurity
“The greatest long term threat to our nation’s information & intellectual property & to our economic vitality is the #counterintelligence & economic espionage threat from China.” —Christopher Wray, #FBI Dir on the significance of China’s threat to the US (& its allies) #IPTheft
“If you think this is just an intel issue, govt prob or nuisance just for big corps—you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the [Americans] who’re the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive—it reps one of the largest transfers of wealth in history.”—#FBI Dir Wray
“We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is now opening up a China-related counterintelligence case—about every 10hrs. Of the nearly 5,000 active CI cases in the US—50% are related to China.”—Christopher Wray, FBI Director on China #IPTheft #Surveillance #ChinaModel #中国模式
NEW: US unveils revamped strategy for #counterintelligence
Instead of focusing on nation-state adversaries, new strategy "focuses on five key areas where foreign intelligence entities are hitting us hardest" per @NCSCgov Dir William Evanina
Instead of focusing on nation-state adversaries, new strategy "focuses on five key areas where foreign intelligence entities are hitting us hardest" per @NCSCgov Dir William Evanina
New #counterintelligence strategy to focus on:
-critical infrastructure
-key US supply chains
-US economy
-American democratic institutions
-cyber & technical ops
...per @NCSCgov
-critical infrastructure
-key US supply chains
-US economy
-American democratic institutions
-cyber & technical ops
...per @NCSCgov
1. Speculation: How could the #Epstein case be tied to the counterintelligence investigation? Remember the #SteeleDossier and its report of #Putin having Trump sexual #Kompromat? First, I never bought that it was the material reported. Trump is a #pedophile and Putin knows it.
2. Remember the recent amplification of "deep-fakes?" That is the problem with dropping a Trump sex video. It will be attacked as a fake and #counterintelligence folks can read the papers and see that there are efforts to distort the evidence that may know is coming. What to do?
3. Epstein travels a lot and I presume he is often caught by 702 and other intelligence services' intercepts. Has he ever used a code for Trump? Has he ever used a code for #Kompromat? The #NSA infrastructure can spot that. So if they knew that he has something on Trump the 702
🚨Something Roy Cohn would do too >> #Barr to Review FBI Actions in Trump Probe. AG is assembling a team to review controversial #counterintelligence decisions of Justice Dept & FBI officials during probe of Trump campaign in summer of 2016 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @spettypi
@spettypi "Off the rails"—Lindsey Graham actually used that phrase to describe the *investigation* he will investigate: "Once we put the Mueller report to bed…we are going to turn to finding out how this got off the rails."
Trump's purging DHS, going full lawless tyrant—w/ GOP blessing.
Trump's purging DHS, going full lawless tyrant—w/ GOP blessing.
It’s astounding even Republicans like Barr have chosen Carter Page as their hill to die on. Barr will investigate “spying” on the Trump campaign—genesis & conduct of the FBI probe. FYI Page was spouting anti-American propaganda while being courted by Russia—and NOT the first time
#OPSEC mistakes by ex @CIA Kevin Mallory #spying for China, caught on CCTV having secret documents scanned to micoSD card instead of doing it on his own cheap disposable scanner, useless non-destructive messages covert comms phone App, no #encryption cbsnews.com/news/chinese-s…
#OPSEC #fail ex @CIA Kevin Mallory recruited to spy for #China #MSS via @LinkedIn profile openly pitching #NationalSecurity experience. N.B. all the risks of taking your phone to China, highlighted by US CI official also apply to foreigners visiting USA cbsnews.com/news/chinese-s…
#Privacy activists need to learn from professional #espionage agents & #CounterIntelligence case #OPSEC techniques & failures - #China #MSS agent handlers were unprofessional in mobile #CovertComms & #MoneyLaundering - Kevin Patrick Mallory indictment justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
#ActiveMeasures by Russian intelligence services are the tactical/operational component of Strategic Deception.
What is Strategic Deception?
It is not only deceiving an adversary at strategic level, but fundamentally altering how the adversary sees/thinks/acts.
#TrumpRussia
What is Strategic Deception?
It is not only deceiving an adversary at strategic level, but fundamentally altering how the adversary sees/thinks/acts.
#TrumpRussia
The #counterintelligence challenge lies in not just the identification of penetrations, breaches, operations, and preventing/stopping them, but in understanding their purpose, manipulating them (not thru traditional law enforcement), and turning them back on the adversary.
The #FBI Ten #MostWanted Fugitives Program launched in 1950 to bring national attention to dangerous criminals who have avoided capture. To date, 519 fugitives have appeared on the list. #FBI110 fbi.gov/wanted #FugitiveFriday
In 1950 British agents arrested Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs after FBI agents helped make counterintelligence use of telegrams decrypted & decoded by Army experts. The work, later code named Venona, was key to advancing #FBI #counterintelligence program. #FBI110 fbi.gov/history/histor…
In 1951, 4 subjects – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass and Morton Sobell – were each convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in what was dubbed at the time as the “Trial of the Century.” #FBI110 fbi.gov/history/famous…
1/ #OTD IN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY HISTORY – On July 9, 2010 -- after a multi-year investigation by the FBI and other elements of the US Intelligence Community -- ten deep-cover Russian “illegals” (operatives of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)) were...
2/ exchanged in Vienna, Austria, for four individuals who had been jailed in Russia for alleged contact with Western intelligence agencies. The day before, the Russian illegals pleaded guilty in federal court in NYC to conspiring to serve as Russian agents in a case that...
3/ served as a chilling reminder that espionage on U.S. soil did not disappear with the end of the Cold War. The Russian govt. spent significant funds and many years training and deploying these “SVR illegals” to establish a presence in the U.S. and develop sources of info. ...
