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ROUND TABLE ON KGB informants' recruitment practices, and Soviet political police influence on USSR's foreign policy: Thursday, March 14 at 17.00, State University of Moldova featuring two American guest speakers doing research in Moldovan archives in the last month.

Spies in European Culture, 1815-1914 edited by Laura Di Fiore & Elisabetta Abignente is an historical exploration of the spy in Europe in the long 19th century which extends the varied & revealing representations & perceptions the figure has inspired. 📙 bit.ly/3E70Asu

Saturday 8 March 2025 is #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 Join me, Dr Kate Vigurs FRhistS Dr Sally Waugh, Krystel von Kumberg AND veterans Betty Webb MBE and Ruth Bourne Bletchley Park for a special one day symposium celebrating ‘Women in Intelligence during World War Two’. Details of my

Article 9 (Book Review) Thomson, Henry. Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, The Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024: Angelica Krystel von Kumberg ubplj.org/index.php/jaoi…

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

Happy publication day to Peter Gillman & Emanuele Midolo MURDER IN CAIRO: Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery ‘reads better than any Cold War spy thriller’. I was thrilled to endorse this ‘gripping’ book published by Biteback Publishing The cover is so cool 😎

Speaking about #KrystynaSkarbek aka Christine Granville, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, at a Warsaw conference on Polish heroines. These women wrote themselves into history, yet their stories have rarely been told…

Do you like to read about American intelligence? If you’re in the Austin area April 10, join me at the Clements Center!

Had a great time speaking with Shaun Walker about his latest book, The Ilegals. Out today in the US! 📚 Eye Spy: eyespyintelligencehistory.com/podcast/episod… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3W3SDB… #TheIlegals #Russia #USSR

“For decades, it seemed as though the characters of leaders would never again determine the course of events the way they did in World War II. Putin’s invasion has changed that, and Trump, taking Putin as a role model, has, too.” fam.ag/3SnNyKW

Orwell coined “Cold War.” Honoured to find my book among the eight remarkable finalists for this year. Many thanks to the judges for this decision.

Excited to announce my forthcoming collection on Spies, Culture and Society edited with Constant Hijzen. It develops ideas about the "cultural turn" in intelligence studies, bringing together leading scholars on intel + culture. More info to follow. Publication in early 2026!

Tune into our conversation starring Aaron Bateman on his research and book Weapons in Space. It's the perfect moment to learn about this history amidst the current unveiling of the "Golden Dome" Project. open.spotify.com/episode/7jhJJ2… eyespyintelligencehistory.com/podcast/episod…

How did MI6 exfiltrate former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin using a yellow minibus? And how did it nearly go wrong? The story - told for the first time on The Rest Is Classified this week with the full detail in "The Spy in the Archive" out in the UK next week. linktr.ee/triclassified

Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6 theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Fascinating reflection on A.I. as historian (or a historian’s apprentice), how historians are using it today as well as the utopian and dystopian effects nytimes.com/2025/06/16/mag…

Counterintelligence at Its Core. Assessing and Preventing Foreign Espionage by Kevin P. Riehle – new book out now #CIA #KGB #MI5 #Mossad #OSINT #intellbooks Lynne Rienner Pub

"A century of MI5 secrets are being revealed in the UK's National Archives". lemonde.fr/en/internation…

UK launched huge operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6 amid panic about ‘another Philby’ theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…