SPY NEWS: 2022 — Week 38
Summary of the espionage-related news stories for the Week 38 (September 18–24) of 2022.
1. China Is Spying on Western Europe. Here’s How to Fight It
On September 18th the National Review published this article saying that “after purging and reorganizing the UFWD’s corrupt leadership in December 2014, the CCP’s leader, Xi Jinping, demanded that they place greater emphasis on overseas influence and intelligence work, according to a 2020 report by Alex Joske, formerly of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. A year later, Xi initiated additional reform and reorganization in the military and intelligence organs, resulting in a greater emphasis by MSS on spying abroad, exemplified by “increasingly aggressive cyber espionage” against German and other European targets and by thefts of U.S. jet-engine technology by State Security officer Xu Yanjun. In April 2018, after taking one operational risk too many, Xu was arrested in Belgium and extradited to the U.S., where he was convicted of economic espionage. However, such successes are few in comparison with other glaring problems, say experts interviewed this summer in Western Europe. Xi Jinping’s reorganizations and purges of his espionage and influence apparatus seem to be bearing fruit. Brussels, which houses the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, appears to be a priority target of Beijing and Moscow. Hundreds of agents from those two countries operate around the headquarters of NATO and the EU in that city’s “EU District.” Of the European powers, Britain probably has the most robust counterespionage and foreign-intelligence efforts concerning China and Russia, but money from those nations finds a way into British society, particularly through real estate. And Beijing’s influence on corporate titans seeking access to the China market has been just as effective in Britain as anywhere else.”
2. Video: SpyCameras: Robot OS 35 F 35mm Covert Camera
The SpyCameras YouTube channel published a short video for the Robot OS 35 F 35mm camera. As per its description, “the camera was designed specifically for covert surveillance. Its small dimensions, automatic operation and silent drive make it ideal for camouflaged use. The camera was capable of being front mounted with additional accessories, while the existing casing features rails on the top for a mounting bracket. It was certainly used by the East German STASI, the West German BND, the CIA and other Intelligence agencies because of its high quality lens and low noise motor wind.”
3. Five Eyes Intelligence Network Meeting Hosted in Queenstown
The NZ Herald reported that “top American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials have touched down in Queenstown for a meeting of the global Five Eyes intelligence network. A small US Air Force jet arrived and unloaded a fresh team of top officials at Queenstown Airport today, before they promptly jumped into cars and departed in a motorcade. It’s understood that FBI operatives have been on the ground in the scenic South Island mountain town for several days ahead of the Five Eyes meet. Representatives of Five Eyes — made up of intelligences agencies from New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada and Britain — have also been quietly jetting into the alpine resort town over the last few days. Plain-clothed Diplomatic Protection Service (DPS) officers and undercover armed police were seen in various unmarked vehicles at the luxurious five-star Millbrook Resort near Arrowtown today. After enquiries from the Herald earlier this week, Andrew Little, Minister Responsible for the NZSIS and GCSB, confirmed the gathering. “As the public would expect, New Zealand’s national security and intelligence officials meet with their Five Eyes counterparts as part of their regular engagement. There are some engagements happening at official level in New Zealand at the moment,” Little said.” A video of the motorcade was also later released.
4. Ukrainian SBU Detains Two Russian Agents in Pokrovsk
On Monday Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) announced that they “detained in Donetsk “canned” Russian saboteurs from the “Motorola” group. The agents were detained in Pokrovsk, Donetsk, where they secretly arrived to carry out intelligence and subversive actions against the Defence Forces of Ukraine. ID cards of members of illegal armed formations and an arsenal of automatic weapons and ammunition, disguised in specially equipped caches, were seized from the detainees. According to the investigation, the perpetrators were two local residents who in 2014 joined the ranks of the terrorist groups “Vostok” and “Slavyanskaya Brigade”. Under the leadership of a leader with the call sign “Motorola”, they took an active part in combat operations against Ukrainian troops near Kramatorsk.”
5. Maximilian Lerner, Whose Espionage Skills Helped Win a War, Dies at 98
The New York Times reported that “Maximilian Lerner, an Austrian-born Jew who during World War II was among the many soldiers recruited to a secret military intelligence and psychological warfare training center, where they learned espionage and intelligence skills that helped the United States Army as it swept across Europe, died on Sept. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 98. His son Tom confirmed the death. Mr. Lerner was one of the last 30 or 40 of the so-called Ritchie Boys, a group named for the secret Army camp in Maryland that served as an intelligence training center during the war. An estimated 11,000 soldiers — 2,000 to 3,000 of them European Jews, mostly from Germany — graduated from Camp Ritchie, where they learned to interrogate prisoners of war and civilians, interpret and translate for foreign officials, and read codes and ciphers.”
6. Trudeau Declines to Say Whether CSIS Informant Has Been Granted Asylum in Canada
Following week 35 (story #22), the Globe and Mail reported that “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to say Sunday whether Ottawa granted asylum to a former operative of Canada‘s spy service after he was freed from a Turkish prison last month for trafficking three underaged British schoolgirls to Islamic State militants. Mr. Trudeau suggested, however, that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service would not have been allowed to run a double agent who engaged in the smuggling of minors under new rules brought in by his government in 2017. The Globe and Mail reported Friday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter, that CSIS informant Mohammed al-Rashed was released from a Turkish prison on Aug. 5 after serving seven years for terrorism and human smuggling, including trafficking the trio of British schoolgirls, aged 15 and 16 at the time. The source said CSIS had planned to relocate its former agent to Canada in August.”
7. Ukrainian Military Intelligence Prepares to Demonstrate its Cyber Offensive Capacities in DC
Intelligence Online reported on Monday that “a summit dedicated to the hybrid war between Ukraine and Russia is to take place in Washington, thanks to sponsorship from private sector cyber security and intelligence operators and CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. The event will highlight the cyber offensive operations carried out by Ukraine’s GUR.”
8. US Embassy to Somalia Rejected Visa to Somalia’s Spy Chief Mahad Salad
The Somali Star Post reported that the “US Embassy to Somalia rejected visas to Somalia’s Spy chief Mr. Mahad Salad, The President’s security advisor Mr. Hussein Shiekh Ali and The Minister of defence Abdulkadir Nur. It’s publicly speculated that these gentlemen to have a working relations with Alshabab.”
9. Namibia: Spy Agency Ordered to Reinstate Counterterrorism Officer Cleared of Graft
The Africa Intelligence reported on Monday that “the High Court of Namibia ruled on 8 September that the Namibia Central Intelligence Service should reinstate former counterterrorism officer Immanuel Shivute, whom it had sacked in 2018.”
10. Spy Agency GCSB Says 170,000 Cyberattacks on NZ Caught in Defence Network
The NZ Herald reported on September 19th that “intelligence agencies say anti-malware system has tripped up more than 169,000 threats to New Zealand since the middle of last year.”
11. Tip by Belgian Spy Agency Helped US Foil Islamic State Plot to Kill George Bush
Intel News published an article saying that “a tip by Belgian intelligence helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation foil a plot by Iraqi nationals to kill former United States President George W. Bush. American news outlets reported in May of this year that the FBI had prevented a scheme by an Iraqi national to smuggle Islamic State operatives into the United States, with the aim of killing the former president. Soon afterwards, the Department of Justice announced that the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force had arrested Ahmed Shihab, an Iraqi national, who was the alleged mastermind of the operation. Shihab, 52, had applied for political asylum in the United States. However, he had reportedly joined the Islamic State in secret, and had devised a scheme to kill Bush during a speech that the former president had been scheduled to deliver in Dallas, Texas. For several weeks, Shihab had allegedly surveilled Bush’s Texas homes in Dallas and Crawford, capturing footage in cellphones and video cameras. Shihab had the support of thee other alleged Islamic State supporters, who had traveled to the United States from Iraq through Denmark, Egypt and Turkey.”
12. US: Maria Dolores “Lola” Sánchez, One of the Most Unsuspecting Confederate Spies of the Civil War
The American Battlefield Trust published an article for Lola Sánchez (1844–1895) on September 18th. As per the article, “Maria Dolores “Lola” Sánchez was one of the most unsuspecting Confederate spies of the Civil War. Born to Cuban parents who immigrated to Florida in the mid-1840s, Lola spent her days tending to household duties at her family’s home in Palatka, Florida. Between taking care of her parents and managing the household, Lola had minimal time to keep up with Civil War efforts, let alone getting involved in them. By the final years of the Civil War, Lola Sánchez shifted her priorities. Sánchez became entangled in Civil War politics after Union and Confederate forces set up camps in Palatka, Florida. The last straw for Lola Sanchez occurred when Don Mauricio Sánchez, Lola’s father, was falsely accused of being a Confederate spy by neighboring Union soldiers. Union soldiers imprisoned Mauricio at the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, and every plea of the Sánchez family for Don’s release fell on deaf ears.”
13. “Arrogant, Inept, Useless” — CIA Expert Dissects German Spies
The German Focus Online published an article saying that ““arrogant, incompetent, bureaucratic, useless” — the verdict of an American CIA expert on German counterintelligence sounds devastating. In an interview with FOCUS online, John Sipher describes his professional experience with German colleagues in relation to Russia. Sipher is one of the most experienced intelligence experts in the United States. He worked for the CIA for 28 years in counterintelligence and was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service, a US Intelligence Service leadership team for global CIA operations. John Sipher: I’m sorry to say that. But although Germany is the centre of the European economy, the German secret services are absolutely not reliable partners when it comes to Russia. Actually, I don’t like to comment negatively on the German secret services, because there are quite a few good people there. And we are all urgently dependent on Germany when it comes to continuing to put pressure on Russia. But the German agents are being held back by their politicians, who seem unwilling to accept that Putin could be up to something bad. So the German spies stuck their heads in the sand. And that’s why the Russia analysts from the Federal Intelligence Service are completely useless.”
14. Spy Collection: Russian GRU 2014–2016 Cyber-Espionage Operation Pawn Storm
On Saturday we published a video covering 5 cyber espionage operations conducted by the Russian military intelligence (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Centre (GTsSS) — Military Unit 26165 in 2014. Those were targeting: 1) OBRUM defence contractor, 2) Polish government’s BIP (Public Information Bulletin), 3) Polish government officials, 4) IRGiT financial clearing of exchange transactions, and 5) SAIC government services provider.
15. Ukrainian SBU Detained Female Russian Agent in Chernihiv
On September 19th Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) announced that they “detained a Russian agent who was passing on intelligence about the movement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The investigation established that the 32-year-old woman established relations with the Russian occupiers after the start of the full-scale invasion. After the liberation of the territory, she continued to cooperate with the enemy, collecting data on the location of defence forces, storage locations of weapons and military equipment, the placement of checkpoints, and the movement of military convoys. The perpetrator passed the collected information to the occupiers with the help of one of the messengers for a monetary reward. During the searches, the detained law enforcement officer seized means of communication with evidence of correspondence with a representative of the Russian intelligence services.”
16. As Israel Reins in Its Cyberarms Industry, an Ex-intel Officer is Building a New Empire
On September 20th Haaretz reported that “in a nondescript suburb of the Greek capital, in an equally unremarkable office building towering over a generic strip mall, you will find a company called Intellexa. Sources who have been inside say its sprawling offices occupy five stories and include sleeping quarters, a training center and even an area with prayer mats so that those coming from Muslim countries like Bangladesh to receive training can pray.” The article is referring to Tal Dilian.
17. Secret Documents Have Exposed the CIA’s Julian Assange Obsession
Chip Gibbons of Jacobin published an article saying that “new revelations show that the CIA secretly took control of the security company hired by Ecuador’s government to guard Julian Assange during his exile in London. The agency’s spying on Assange and his visitors constitutes a major breach of civil liberties.”
18. Podcast: True Spies: Veil of Beads pt 1/3 — The Method and the Madness
This week SpyCast’s True Spies series released a new podcast episode. As per its description, “everywhere on Earth has its own flavors of greed, corruption and lies. And everywhere produces its own champions — beacons of light in the murk. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that champion is Anas Aremeyaw Anas — investigative reporter extraordinaire. Hiding his face behind a veil of beads, Anas goes deep undercover to expose the rot at society’s heart. In Part 1, Vanessa Kirby follows Anas on a dangerous mission to bust a drugs ring operating out of a Ghanaian mental hospital.”
19. E. Snowden: America’s Open Wound — The CIA is not your friend
Former CIA and NSA contractor Edward Snowden started a blog and this week published his first post. The post concludes that “do you believe that the CIA today — a CIA free from all consequence and accountability — is uninvolved in similar activities? Can you find no presence of their fingerprints in the events of the world, as described in the headlines, that provide cause for concern? Yet it is those who question the wisdom of placing a paramilitary organization beyond the reach of our courts that are dismissed as “naive.” For 75 years, the American people have been unable to bend the CIA to fit the law, and so the law has been bent to fit the CIA. As Biden stood on the crimson stage, at the site where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and adopted, his words rang out like the cry of a cracked-to-hell Liberty Bell: “What’s happening in our country is not normal.” If only that were true.”
20. Ukrainian SBU Prevented Leak of Classified Information
Ukraine’s SBU issued a press statement on September 19th saying that they “prevented the “leaking” of secret technologies for the production of aircraft engines for fighter jets abroad. As a result of a special operation in Zaporizhzhia, an attempt to illegally transfer the latest military technologies, which are subject to state export control, to one of the countries of East Asia was blocked. For a monetary reward, the attackers tried to smuggle to foreigners secret documentation related to the production of aircraft engines for fighter jets and combat helicopters. The scheme was organised by a former official of one of the powerful defence enterprises of the region. According to the preliminary investigation by specialists of the defence-industrial complex of Ukraine, in case of obtaining the appropriate technologies, foreigners could establish their own production of modernised aircraft engines.”
21. The future of the Dutch Military Intelligence (MIVD)
This week the September edition of the Dutch Military Spectator journal was published. Among others, it includes the article “The future of the MIVD” available also as PDF here.
22. MI6: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Her Secret Intelligence Service
The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as the MI6, published an article detailing the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and the MI6. Quoting the article, “Her Majesty The Queen maintained close ties with SIS and approached the world of intelligence with curiosity, always showing appreciation and respect for the exceptional dedication of our staff and agents. She was from time to time briefed by Chiefs, in 1996 Sir David Spedding said that he was ‘struck by the extraordinary range and depth of her international problems and by the clear evidence that she reads our intelligence reports with close attention.’ Her Majesty visited our headquarters on several occasions, meeting both staff and agents, and with His Royal Highness Prince Philip, formally opened the Service’s Vauxhall Cross headquarters on 14 July 1994.”
23. Podcast: Grey Dynamics: Intelligence-Led Policing, OSINT and Facing PTSD With Julie Nel
This week Grey Dynamics published a new podcast episode. As per its description, “in this episode of the Grey Dynamics Podcast, I spoke with my old mentor partner and friend Julie Nel! Julie is an experienced senior leader within the security industry, with a career spanning 30 years across UK Military and Law Enforcement. She specialises in Intelligence and Serious and Organised Crime and has served as Force Director of Intelligence and the National Lead for Intelligence in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC). Currently, she is the founder and managing director of the private intelligence and investigative firm B4secure.”
24. Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion Acquires a Telegram Communications Interception System
Intelligence Online reported on September 22nd that “American sanctions against Bangladesh and its Rapid Action Battalion, which has been accused by the American Treasury of carrying out extra-judicial assassinations, have not prevented the country from acquiring an interception system.”
25. United States Pentagon Opens Sweeping Review of Clandestine Psychological Operations
The Washington Post reported that “the Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms’ rules.” The article also says that “according to the researchers’ report, the accounts taken down included a made-up Persian-language media site that shared content reposted from the U.S.-funded Voice of America Farsi and Radio Free Europe. Another, it said, was linked to a Twitter handle that in the past had claimed to operate on behalf of Centcom. One fake account posted an inflammatory tweet claiming that relatives of deceased Afghan refugees had reported bodies being returned from Iran with missing organs, according to the report. The tweet linked to a video that was part of an article posted on a U.S.-military affiliated website. Centcom has not commented on whether these accounts were created by its personnel or contractors. If the organ-harvesting tweet is shown to be Centcom’s, one defense official said, it would “absolutely be a violation of doctrine and training practices.” Independent of the report, The Washington Post has learned that in 2020 Facebook disabled fictitious personas created by Centcom to counter disinformation spread by China suggesting the coronavirus responsible for covid-19 was created at a U.S. Army lab in Fort Detrick, Md., according to officials familiar with the matter. The pseudo profiles — active in Facebook groups that conversed in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu, the officials said — were used to amplify truthful information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the virus’s origination in China.”
26. Latvian VDD Reports No Threats for Upcoming Elections
On Friday the State Security Service (VDD) of Latvia published a statement saying that “in the run-up to the 14th Saeima elections, the State Security Service (VDD) is taking measures to timely identify and prevent efforts to illegally influence the election process or results. VDD calls on citizens, if they notice suspicious activities related to the elections, to inform the service about them.” However, the same publication states that “VDD currently has no information about possible so-called vote-buying attempts in Latvia” and that “VDD has not identified significant threats to the security of the 14th Saeima elections.”
27. Unattributed Nation-State Actor Uncovered Targeting Telcos, ISPs, and Universities for Cyber Espionage
Private cyber security and intelligence firm Sentinel Labs published their research on a previously unknown nation-state actor conducting advanced cyber espionage operations “primarily targets telecommunications, internet service providers, and universities in several countries in the Middle East and Africa.” As per the analysis, “at this time, there’s no clear, reliable sense of attribution. Traces point to multiple developers and operators that speak both English and Spanish, alongside varied cultural references including British pop punk lyrics and Argentinian political cartoons.”
28. Untangling the Russian Web: Spies, Proxies, and Spectrums of Russian Cyber Behaviour
The Atlantic Council published an analysis summarised as: “the number of cyber operations launched from Russia over the last few years is astounding, ranging from the NotPetya malware attack that cost the global economy billions, to the SolarWinds espionage campaign against dozens of US government agencies and thousands of companies. Broad characterizations of these operations, such as “Russian cyberattack,” obscure the very real and entangled web of cyber actors within Russia that receive varying degrees of support from, approval by, and involvement with the Russian government. This issue brief describes the large, complex, and often opaque network of cyber actors in Russia, from front companies to patriotic hackers to cybercriminals. It analyzes the range and ambiguity of the Russian government’s involvement with the different actors in this cyber web, as well as the risks and benefits the Kremlin perceives or gets from leveraging actors in this group. The issue brief concludes with three takeaways and actions for policymakers in the United States, as well as in allied and partner countries: focus on understanding the incentive structure for the different actors in Russia’s cyber web; specify the relationship any given Russian actor has or does not have with the state, and calibrate their responses accordingly; and examine these actors and activities from Moscow’s perspective when designing policies and predicting the Kremlin’s responses.”
29. Air America: The History of the CIA’s Covert Airline
Grey Dynamics published this article stating that ““Air America” was an air transport and logistics enterprise owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency denied it’s involvement in the airline for years, eventually selling its interest in 1978. Its pilots were considered deniable assets and its aircraft fleet was either sold, destroyed or repatriated. The purpose of Air America was to provide clandestine air support to America’s allies in Southeast Asia. This included search and rescue operations, tactical insertions of special forces, the smuggling of weapons and trafficking of narcotics.”
30. Ukrainian SBU Detains Russian Agent in South Ukraine
With a formal announcement Ukraine’s SBU stated that they “detained a Russian agent who adjusted the enemy’s missile strikes to disrupt the heating season in the south of Ukraine. The invaders planned to use the received coordinates for a series of rocket and artillery attacks on the city. In case of successful shelling, the occupiers promised their henchman a monetary “reward”. According to the investigation, the traitor turned out to be a resident of the regional centre. In order to carry out the enemy’s instructions, the intruder took photos and videos of sites with references to their location, and handed over these materials with a detailed description to the Russian handler. It has been established that in the event of the capture of the city, the invaders promised “guarantees of security” against the repressive actions of the occupation administration.”
31. CIA: China Wants the Capability to Take Control of Taiwan by 2027
According to intelligence national security reporter Katie Bo Lillis, “Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his military that he wants to have the capability to take control of Taiwan by force by 2027, per CIA Deputy Director David Cohen — but, he said, the IC does not currently believe that Beijing has made a decision about whether to proceed. “He has not made the decision to do that, but he has asked his military to put him in a position where if that’s what he wanted to do, he would be able to. It’s still the assessment of the IC as a whole that Xi’s interest in Taiwan is to get control through nonmilitary means.”.”
32. Unearthed File Reveals Huge Cold War-Era U.S. Bugging Operation Against Soviets
The Brush Pass published a new article on September 22nd saying that “recently, I obtained a set of declassified 1980s intelligence files from Poland’s cold war-era archives. The files detailed a Soviet operation to identify and remove a cornucopia of bugs placed in Russian diplomatic facilities across the United States. The document — written in Russian and almost certainly produced by the KGB, unlike the other Polish-language files in the tranche of documents — provides a meticulous pictorial account of the ways in which the U.S. spy services sought to technically surveil the Russians on American soil. The file offers an unprecedented, stunning — if dated — look at these efforts to eavesdrop on Russian government activities within the U.S.”
33. Luhansk Resident Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Cooperating with Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR)
Rapsi News reported on September 22nd that “a resident of the Luhansk People’s Republic was sentenced to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property for cooperation with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the press service of the Supreme Court of the region reports. The LPR Supreme Court ruled that she committed high treason in the form of espionage and other assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of the republic. As follows from the materials of the case, from 2020 to 2022, citizen S., whose data was not disclosed, collected and transferred military information to Ukrainian intelligence for a monetary reward. In addition, she attracted her son, who is a serviceman of the People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic, to cooperate with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. During the trial, the defendant fully admitted her guilt and repented of her deed.”
34. Podcast: SpyCast: “The 75th Anniversary of the CIA” — with former Director Robert Gates
The International Spy Museum’s SpyCast published a new podcast episode. This episode features Robert M. Gates, as per the description, “Robert M. Gates is the first career officer in the CIA’s history to rise from entry level employee to Director. He spent 27 years at CIA, nine of those at the NSC. More recently, he was the first Secretary of Defense to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected president. In all, he served 8 presidents.” The intelligence topics covered are: 1) His reflections on the CIA at 75, 2) How the CIA’s story intersected with his own, 3) His take on the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and 4) The complex intl. environment the CIA must now help America navigate.
35. US Department of Justice: Former Broadcom Engineer Sentenced to Eight Months in Prison for Theft of Trade Secrets
The US Department of Justice issued a press release on September 20th that “Peter Kisang Kim, a former Broadcom Inc. engineer, was sentenced today to eight months in prison for trade secret theft involving Broadcom trade secrets, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman, United States District Judge.” The statement continues that “Kim resigned from Broadcom effective July 17, 2020, and in the days before he left Broadcom, Kim copied more than 500 Broadcom files from its document repository system. In pleading to trade secret theft, he admitted to possessing Broadcom trade secrets related to the Trident family of chips, including those contained in test plans, design verification environment files, and design specifications. He admitted that he knowingly possessed the Broadcom trade secrets knowing that he took them from Broadcom. He also acknowledged that Broadcom took reasonable measures to keep the Broadcom trade secrets secret, including by storing the trade secrets on non-public document repositories in which the access permissions were restricted, requiring appropriate nondisclosure agreements to be executed before the trade secrets could be shared outside Broadcom, and in view of the confidentiality agreements Kim signed with Broadcom and the annual trainings he received, among other things. Less than two weeks after he left Broadcom, Kim began working as IC Design Verification Director for a startup company based in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). Kim acknowledged in his plea agreement that the company was seeking to become a leading chip designer focused on the PRC’s domestic market for networking chips at the time.”
36. CIA Reportedly Wants to Cooperate with Taiwan’s MIB
The Taiwan News reported on September 20th that “the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly expressed interested in cooperating with Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB). During the high-level Taiwan-U.S. “Monterey Talks” held on June 20 this year in Annapolis, Maryland, the CIA invited the director of the MIB, Arthur Yang (楊靜瑟), to attend the event for the first time, expressing the hope of direct intelligence exchanges and cooperation between the two agencies, reported UDN. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) has not responded to requests for comment on the matter. National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Wellington Koo (顧立雄) led a delegation to meet with Ely Ratner, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. Koo’s delegation included his deputy York Chen (陳文政) and MND Vice Minister Bo Hung-hui (柏鴻輝), while the U.S. side included representatives from the state department and national security council. The news agency cited sources that Yang, who rose through the ranks of the Air Force, was invited to attend the meeting for the first time. After the meeting, he was reportedly invited to visit the headquarters of the CIA. The CIA then reportedly expressed to Yang interest in establishing direct intelligence cooperation with the MIB. However, when Yang returned to Taiwan to report the matter, the MND ultimately ruled that the MIB must file a special case report, and it must undergo review before conducting information exchanges. Taiwan’s counterpart to the CIA is the National Security Bureau (NSB). Currently, U.S. requests for information gathered through intelligence research and exchange must be coordinated by the NSB, which then allocates the task to its affiliated intelligence agencies, such as the MIB.”
37. Ukrainian SBU Dismantles Russian FSB Agent Group in Kyiv
On September 21st Ukrainian SBU stated that “the SBU exposed an FSB agent group in Kyiv, which passed the coordinates of the capital’s CHP plants to the enemy to disrupt the heating season. The traitors scouted the location of Ukrainian military units, including the National Guard, heating power plants and railway junctions. The collected information was forwarded to the occupiers through anonymous Telegram channels. For each “report”, the invaders gave their henchmen a monetary “reward” in the amount of 5,000 hryvnia equivalent. According to the investigation, the agent group was formed by a staff member of the Rostov region FSB administration after the start of a full-scale invasion. It included four residents of Kyiv. They tried to involve a resident of Cherkasy region in their reconnaissance and subversive activities. However, SBU officers worked ahead of time — timely exposed, established the location and detained the traitors.”
38. Spy Way of Life: Landmark Hotel in Azerbaijan
This week’s selection for Intelligence Online’s Spy Way of Life was the Landmark Hotel, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. As per the article, it is “an establishment highly prized by investors wanting to rub shoulders with Caspian oil and gas executives.”
39. Turkey’s Counterespionage Chief Linked to Al-Qaeda Group, Harbors Anti-Semitic Views
Nordic Monitor reported on September 22nd that “the head of the counterintelligence department in Turkey’s spy agency MIT has maintained close ties to a Turkish charity known as the logistics supplier for al-Qaeda groups worldwide and has long harbored anti-Semitic views, a Nordic Monitor investigation has found. Nuh Yılmaz, a 48-year-old hard-core Islamist, has worked closely with the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı, or IHH), described as the logistics supplier for al-Qaeda’s global operations. Yılmaz, who had no experience in intelligence, was put into a senior position at MIT in a special appointment by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on August 15, 2013 and became the right-hand man of intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, a pro-Iran Islamist who was hand-picked to run the agency in May 2010. Although his official title was press advisor, Yılmaz carried out clandestine operations that went beyond the mandate of his office, redesigned the media landscape in Turkey and planted key operatives in senior positions in various media outlets against the backdrop of the Erdoğan government’s crackdown on the Turkish media. He helped shutter nearly 200 media outlets including the nation’s leading newspapers and broadcast TV networks.”
40. Russian SVR: Western Countries and Referenda
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) did a public announcement on September 23rd stating that “according to the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia S. E. Naryshkin, according to intelligence received by the Foreign Intelligence Service, which began on September 23 of this year, referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions on joining Russia cause an extremely nervous, in fact, hysterical reaction in the countries of NATO and the European Union. This is evidenced by the statement made by the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy J. Borrell on September 20 of this year. a statement about the preparation by Brussels of new anti-Russian sanctions, the target of which will be, among other things, “everyone involved” in organising a popular vote in the liberated regions of Ukraine. However, in doing so, Borrell betrayed the true attitude of the Western ruling class towards democracy: he hates the will of the people. After all, referendums are one of the fundamental instruments of real democracy, which is not controlled by the oligarchy and corrupt political technologists. Borrell’s position reflects a deep fear of the “collective West”, where power is concentrated in the hands of a narrow group of people, bypassing democratic procedures and can be lost in the event of a direct expression of the will of the population.”
41. Ukrainian SBU Publishes Summary of Recently Completed Counter-intelligence Operations
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) published a summary highlighting the following completed counter-intelligence operations: 1) “In Donetsk region, two Russian agents handed over to the occupiers the locations of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the location of the combat positions of the HIMARS reactive artillery systems. It is established that the informants were recruited by FSB representatives after a full-scale invasion. They came to the attention of the Russian intelligence services because of their pro-Kremlin views, which they repeatedly “advertised” among those around them. SBU officers detained both agents in Pokrovsk for trying to pass intelligence to the occupiers” and 2) “another enemy accomplice was exposed in the Dnipro. He turned out to be an inmate of one of the correctional institutions. With the help of a hidden mobile phone, he established contact with his accomplices at large, who gave him the geolocation of Ukrainian roadblocks. The prisoner passed the received information to representatives of the Russian intelligence services, who recruited him through connections in criminal circles.”
42. United States Senate Reports Details Inefficiencies, Confusion at Key U.S. counterintelligence Centre
CyberScoop reported that “he National Counterintelligence and Security Center is paralyzed by dysfunction, lack of resources and confusion about its mission, leaving a key national security asset dangerously vulnerable, U.S. senators said Wednesday. The center’s inability to adapt to the growing role of cyber and the “whole-of-society threat landscape” are among several factors contributing to the organization’s decline, according to a blistering 153-page Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report.”
43. Israel: Shin Bet Boss Ronen Bar Battles Internal Headwinds and Palestinian Strife
Intelligence Online reported on Friday that “the man running Israel’s internal security service since 2021 is no longer holding back on the threats hanging over the Israeli state, not the least the dangers presented by the Jewish settlements. At the same time, he has responded to the emergence of new armed groups in the West Bank by focusing efforts on the territory, even at the risk of falling out with Ramallah and Cairo.”
44. High-Level Russian Intelligence Officers are Getting Fed Up with Putin
According to Newsy, “two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence say that senior officers in Russia’s intelligence community are getting fed up with their president. There are indications that Putin’s critics there want to replace the former KGB officer with a current intelligence official, and a person may have been chosen, according to one source. It comes as major losses in Ukraine drove Putin to announce a partial draft — even as he still refuses to call his invasion a war: “In order to protect our homeland, its sovereignty and its territorial integrity, in order to provide for safety of people of liberated territories, I think it is necessary to support the decision to partially mobilize citizens of Russian federation,” Putin said. “I would like to underline this is a partial mobilization.” Fleeing Russians are heading for land borders and airports. Protesters have been arrested and are receiving draft notices during detention, according to the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.”
45. Syria: Secrets of the Air Force Intelligence and its Commander
This week local media reported in Syria that “in a gag for Assad’s Ministry of Justice, its website published correspondence received by the ministry from a security official regarding the corruption of senior Air Force Intelligence officers and their romantic adventures. Most importantly, the way these security services used to spy on Syrians. While following up on the name of one of the leaders of the security services, Orient came across two messages that are supposed to be encrypted, which the Ministry of Justice received regarding the head of the coastal department in the Air Force Intelligence Department, Brigadier General Abdul Ghani Shahoud. The two messages reveal that there are differences between Brigadier General Abdul Ghani Ali Shahoud, head of the Coast Department in the Air Force Intelligence Department, and head of the Criminal Security Branch, Brigadier General Adnan Ismail Al-Youssef, because of Amjad Suleiman, director of Latakia port.” The article further details me methods used.
46. OSCE Mission Interpreter Jailed for 13 Years in LPR as US Agent
Local media reported on September 19th that “the Supreme Court of the Luhansk People’s Republic has sentenced the interpreter of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) team Maksim Petrov who worked there. He was accused of high treason. “The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the LPR sentenced Maksim Yuryevich Petrov to be found guilty of committing a crime under Article 335 of the LPR Criminal Code and sentenced to 13 years in prison,” the court’s decision says. He is quoted by the Luhansk information centre. The case was held behind closed doors. The convict has the right to appeal the verdict on appeal within 10 days. The press service of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR specified that Petrov acted on the instructions of his handler from the intelligence agency of the US Department of Defence. As established by the investigation, he handed over to him the material constituting a state secret regarding the 2nd Army Corps of the People’s Militia of the LPR. The agency noted that the OSCE interpreter “obtained classified information by eliciting from the servicemen of the People’s Militia of the LPR and observing during regular patrols of the line of contact as part of the OSCE mission.”.”
47. When a Nazi Spy Came to Seattle
The Crosscut published this article saying that “Herbert Mehlhorn’s work brought him to the pre-war Northwest, where he was wined and dined while gathering intel for Hitler’s government.” The article starts by saying that “in the early days of July 1938, a pair of visitors from Germany arrived in Seattle, where they were entertained by local members of the German American community. The two Berliners — Georg Herbert Mehlhorn, a doctor of law in his mid-30s, and his sidekick, Werner Heydenreuter, a tall, blond, 27-year-old athletic trainer — were supposedly on their way to Alaska to hunt after having crisscrossed North America. Starting in New York City in the fall of 1937, they’d logged over 28,000 miles, much of it by car, in a nearly yearlong journey to Cuba, Mexico, Canada, and all across the United States.”
48. British GCHQ Publishes Book of Spies’ Brainteasers for Children
The Guardian reported this story saying that “Britain’s top spies at GCHQ have released a puzzle book for children while challenging the public to solve one of its brainteasers.”
49. Russian Spies Have Infiltrated Ukraine’s Defense Sector, Kyiv Authorities Claim
According to Kyiv Post, “Russia is using spies from inside Ukraine’s defence sector to pass sensitive information back to Moscow, Ukrainian authorities have claimed. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s representative to the Ukrainian parliament, Fedir Venislavskyi, said on Thursday that intelligence had highlighted that espionage from within the defense sector was allowing Russia to anticipate Ukrainian moves on the battlefield and was potentially undermining the war effort. “We cannot underestimate the enemy,” Venislavskyi said in a briefing on Thursday. “Their main intelligence directorate unfortunately has many agents, including in our defense sector. “I think that they partly understand the next steps of our armed forces that we will see in the near future.” Meanwhile, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) continue to work around the clock to investigate and detain Russian agents operating inside Ukraine. Over the past month a plethora of arrests have been made, including Russians attempting to infiltrate the Ukrainian Armed Forces, local government officials, and FSB agents who were caught attempting to pass on coordinates of thermal power plants in Kyiv.”
50. Podcast: State Secrets: The Complicated Case of Taiwan
On September 19th The Cipher Brief’s State Secrets podcast released a new episode. As per its description, “China’s Communist Party is deep into preparations for its 20th party Congress that begins October 16th in Beijing, where expert observers are expecting President Xi Jinping to be confirmed for an unprecedented third five-year term. Xi is also expected to announce his new leadership team that will execute on the party’s agenda. And it’s safe to say that near or at the top of that Agenda is the issue of Taiwan. For context: When it comes to US policy, Washington’s official stance is that Taiwan is in fact, part of China and that if reunification occurs, it must be through a peaceful reunification. Beijing, meanwhile, sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that must be reunified, and has not rule out use of force to do so. Washington is bolstering Taiwanese defenses in the event that Beijing grows impatient and makes the strategic decision to reunify the island by force. So, diplomatically, the US recognizes one Chinese government yet Washington treats Taiwan like an independent nation when it comes to diplomatic engagement and military support. That’s the reason why China took such offense to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taipei. Today’s guest agrees that the U.S.’ One China Policy presents a complicated engagement strategy. How did we get here? And what is the likelihood that the world’s two most powerful nations could come to blows over Taiwan? Ambassador Joe DeTrani has focued much of his career on China. He is not only a former Special Envoy for Six Party Talks with North Korea, he is also a former director of East Asia Operations at the CIA. In this episode, Cipher Brief COO Brad Christian sits down with Ambassador DeTrani to unpack the US’ One China Policy.”
51. Turkish Intelligence Eliminates PKK’s Euphrates ‘Regional Manager’
On September 18th Daily Sabah reported that “the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) eliminated the PKK terrorist Mehmet Gürbüz, code-named “Rojhat Karakoç,” the so-called Euphrates regional manager of the terrorist group, and one terrorist with him in an operation in the Ain Isa region of northern Syria, security sources said Sunday. According to information obtained from security sources, an operation was carried out to eliminate Gürbüz on Sept. 16, within the framework of the information received from the field agents of MIT. A second operation was carried out on the same day after intelligence received information that Grad missiles were removed from depots in Ain Isa. The operation targeted members of the terrorist group who were traveling in a pickup truck loaded with ammunition. Three terrorists likely planning attacks on security forces in the Operation Peace Spring region were eliminated, and two Grad missiles and ammunition were destroyed. In addition, MIT later announced that five more terrorists were also eliminated during the operations.”
52. Sri Lanka: HC Moragoda Meets India’s Spy Chief
The News First reported on September 23rd that “Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda and Indian National Security Advisor Doval reviewed the status of the bilateral relations between the two countries. As part of the regular and ongoing dialogue between them, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the National Security Advisor of India Shri Ajit Kumar Doval, at the latter’s office in New Delhi on Thursday (22). Their discussion centered on a comprehensive review of the status of the relations between India and Sri Lanka. Priority areas for future cooperation were also discussed. Deputy National Security Advisor of India Ambassador Vikram Misri and the Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in New Delhi Niluka Kadurugamuwa also participated in the meeting.”
53. Intelligence Contractor CACI Plays Key Role in US Support for Ukraine
According to Intelligence Online, “MASINT, SIGINT, information warfare… Defence group CACI is providing American special forces commanders with most of the expertise they are using to respond to the war in Ukraine.”
54. Podcast: Mario Bekes: Russia Espionage Modus Operandi in Germany
On September 19th Mario Bekes published a new episode. As per its description, “for years, Russian secret services have placed agents in European nations, from where they conduct an unnoticed war against the West. They destroy, spy on, and murder dissidents while infiltrating IT firms. It has lasted much longer than the war in Ukraine and is a struggle for authority, influence, raw commodities, and money. On the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a significant number of American Viasat customers unexpectedly lost their satellite internet connection, demonstrating how closely the unseen war is tied to the apparent one. The Ukrainian army was the true objective of the strike, and 5,800 wind turbines in Germany lost contact with the grid centre. According to the weekly Der Spiegel, one of the key objectives of Russia’s “invisible” war is Germany. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) expressed alarm over attacks on the country’s electrical networks in July. The administrations in Berlin, Paris, and Rome preferred to keep a blind eye although Eastern European nations, the United States, and Great Britain had been warning about Russian intelligence services for years, according to Spiegel. Koji thinks that the German governments were equally unaware of the threat posed by Russian espionage as they were of their reliance on Russian energy supplies, particularly gas. Russian espionage, disinformation efforts, and cyberattacks now pose a greater threat because of Russia’s aggressive assault against Ukraine, according to German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).”
55. The World is Moving Closer to a New Cold War Fought with Authoritarian Tech
The MIT Technology Review published this article highlighting that “at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Iran, Turkey, and Myanmar promised tighter trade relationships with Russia and China.” It concludes that “as countries with questionable human rights records — like Iran, Turkey, Belarus, and Myanmar — move to more closely integrate their economies with the China- and Russia-led SCO, digital authoritarianism is ripe for far greater expansion and far-reaching harm. And there will be little to halt the continued growth of this thorny and increasingly global web.”
56. Canadian CSIS: Statement on Iran’s Malicious Cyber Activity Affecting Albania
Following week 36 (stories #53 and #62), on September 22nd the Canadian CSIS issued this statement saying that “the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety, today issued the following statement: “Canada strongly condemns the malicious cyber activity that targeted Albania in July 2022. Canada joins its allies Albania, the United Kingdom and the United States in attributing this activity to Iran. “On July 17, Albania’s National Agency of Information issued a statement indicating that it was forced to shut down access to online public services and other government web sites due to a synchronized and sophisticated cyber incident. “Canada’s analysis is consistent with its allies’ in finding that Iranian state actors were behind this incident, which disrupted certain government services to Albanians.”
57. Turkish MIT Captures 2 PKK/KCK Members
Turkish media reported that “according to the information received from security sources, Atilla Çiçek, codenamed “Lehenk”, who was wanted in a red notice for the crime of “destroying the unity of the state and the integrity of the country”, and Hüseyin Yıldırım, codenamed “Alişer”, operating at the so-called responsible level in Syria and Iraq, were neutralised in the operation carried out by the MİT on the border line. He was caught and brought to Turkey. It was determined that the terrorist Cicek was one of the perpetrators of the bomb attack on September 25, 2012 in Tunceli, in which 7 people, 6 of whom were soldiers, were martyred. Cicek, who was among the perpetrators of the attack on August 25, 2020, in which 2 soldiers were martyred in Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı, was determined to operate at a so-called responsible level in Syria and Iran, and Yıldırım in Syria and Iraq.”
58. No, Jason Bourne is Not the Real CIA
On September 19th, The Harvard Gazette published this article covering that “marking the agency’s 75th anniversary, retired CIA directors, station chiefs, and officers, as well as scholars and national security journalists gathered for a series of panel discussions to discuss the intelligence organization’s complex, yet vitally important task during a daylong event Friday at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge. “The mission of the Central Intelligence Agency is to know the truth, not small truth, not someone’s truth, but the truth of what is, not what you prefer; to see beyond the horizon … and to allow leaders to act before events dictate,” said Sue Gordon, who spent 27 years at the CIA and was principal deputy director of national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) from 2017 to 2019.”
59. The KGB’s 4th Directorate and CIA Agend SVEN in SAS Airlines
KGB academic researcher Filip Kovacevic shared a snippet from a declassified KGB document stating that “not much is written about KGB’s 4th Directorate (Transport, Est. in 1981). Тheir 1984 top secret report alleges that CIA had an agent codenamed SVEN in the SAS Airlines office in Moscow who was a liaison between CIA case officers with diplomatic cover & their Soviet sources.”
60. Release/Declassification of 18 Pages of CIA Files from 1996–1997
The Government Attic released 18 pages from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on September 19th. As per its description, “Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) meeting agenda and meeting minutes for each meeting of the Community Historical Review Advisory Council (CHRAC) which relates to systematic declassification review 1996–1997”
61. ‘They Are Watching’: Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State
The New York Times published an article on September 22nd saying that “a cache of nearly 160,000 files from Russia’s powerful internet regulator provides a rare glimpse inside Vladimir V. Putin’s digital crackdown.” The article starts by saying that “four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work. Roughly 800 miles east of Moscow, authorities in the Republic of Bashkortostan, one of Russia’s 85 regions, were busy tabulating the mood of comments in social media messages. They marked down YouTube posts that they said criticized the Russian government. They noted the reaction to a local protest.”
62. Turkey’s Abuse of INTERPOL Red Notices: Findings in the CCF Activity Report
On September 20th the Turkish Minute reported on how the Turkish intelligence and other government authorities are using INTERPOL’s Red Notices as a tactic to target dissidents. One of the examples presented said that “on May 31, 2021 Daily Sabah, a pro-government newspaper, announced that Selahaddin Gülen had been captured by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and brought to Turkey. He was handed over to the police by MIT the same day. He was arrested on charges of leading an armed terrorist organization and for the sexual harassment case that was closed for non-prosecution in 2008. Briefly stated, Selahaddin Gülen, for whom a Red Notice was issued within the scope of a “common crime,” was caught in Kenya. He was abducted by MIT and brought to Turkey before the Kenyan authorities had made a decision on extradition and was arrested on “terrorism’” charges.”
63. The Kaleidoscopic Campaigning of Russia’s Special Services
On September 20th, Dr Jack Watling of RUSI published a research on the special/intelligence services of Russia. As per the paper, “Russia’s operations against Ukraine have involved the full spectrum of its special services. Understanding the role each service plays is vital if the West is to counter their malign influence.”
64. CISA: Iranian Hackers Spent 14 Months in Albanian Government Network Before Launching Ransomware
Following this week’s story #56 and week 36 (stories #53 and #62), The Record reported on the 22nd that “the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI said on Wednesday that hackers connected to Iran’s military spent 14 months inside the networks of the Albanian government before launching a ransomware attack that caused widespread damage in July. The FBI did not specify which Iranian hacking group was behind the incident but explained that in their investigation, they found the hackers exploited an Internet-facing Microsoft SharePoint through CVE-2019–0604. Cybersecurity agencies classified CVE-2019–0604 as one of the most exploited bugs throughout 2020 and has been abused by both nation-states and ransomware gangs. According to the alert, the hackers were able to maintain continuous access to the network for more than a year, frequently stealing emails throughout 2021. By May 2022, the actors began moving laterally and examining the network, performing wider credential theft across Albanian government networks.”
65. Communication in a World of Pervasive Surveillance
The Eindhoven University of Technology published a research paper by Jacob R. Appelbaum titled “Communication in a World of Pervasive Surveillance: Sources and methods: Counter-strategies against pervasive surveillance architecture” covering this subject in detail.
66. Turkish MIT Assassinates 6 PKK Members in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
As reported by the Turkish AA on September 21st, “according to information received from security sources, two separate operations were carried out by MIT against PKK/KCK members in northern Iraq. During the operations, 6 terrorists were neutralised, 4 in Gara and 2 in Metina.”
67. Cryptography and the Intelligence Community
The National Academies published a research paper titled “Cryptography and the Intelligence Community: The Future of Encryption” with its pre-publication copy being freely available online. As per its description, “encryption is a process for making information unreadable by an adversary who does not possess a specific key that is required to make the encrypted information readable. The inverse process, making information that has been encrypted readable, is referred to as decryption. Cryptography has become widespread and is used by private as well as governmental actors. It also enables authentication and underlies the safe use of the Internet and computer systems by individuals and organizations worldwide. Emerging cryptographic technologies offer capabilities such as the ability to process encrypted information without first decrypting it. At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, this report identifies potential scenarios that would describe the balance between encryption and decryption over the next 10 to 20 years and assesses the national security and intelligence implications of each scenario. For each of these scenarios, Cryptography and the Intelligence Community identifies risks, opportunities, and actions. Attention to the findings should enable the Intelligence Community to prepare for the future and to recognize emerging trends and developments and respond appropriately.”
