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Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅
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In a guest post for Comment is Freed, Greg Treverton, Chair of the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2014 to 2017 under President Obama, considers how allies should deal with the U.S. intelligence community under Trump. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...?

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It's a very pleasant day in the southside of Glasgow.

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You can’t write about the influence of social scientists on CIA’s intelligence estimates without questioning whether they’d have any flair for it at all. William Harding Jackson, who had written a wartime report on British Intelligence, certainly didn’t think so. 🧵 1/8

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I just really want to live in precedented times for a bit.

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Where to begin?! #booksky #books

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I don’t believe Trump is a Russian asset but I do struggle to think what he would do differently if he was, be more subtle in his admiration for Russian aggression perhaps.

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By Morten Morland

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If Trump is a tough-talking honest broker, I assume he'll speak to Putin in the same forthright, no-nonsense manner that he spoke to Zelenskyy in yesterday? Surely both sides must be treated equally by this great, equanimous dealmaker in his noble quest for peace? 🤔 apnews.com/article/russ...

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For 17 years, the US Intelligence Community has kept confidential an assessment on the national security implications of climate change. Click here to read why the spy community has kept it a secret, and why we’re advocating for its declassification: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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