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Havana Syndrome is Back
Vladimir Putin turns out to not be much of a “humanitarian” after all
Vladimir Putin turns out to not be much of a “humanitarian” after all
John Schindler
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Example: KGB's DC rezidentura in the early '70s ran multiple agents inside the Nixon WH. So the KGB learned about Watergate long before the public did. They reported this to Moscow, including that Nixon was likely going down, but the Kremlin refused to listen. Wrong message.
False. Soviet intelligence during the Cold War had no great difficulty stealing a wide array of US/Western secrets. But making Party bigwigs listen to unwanted news was another matter. The Soviet system failed at political-economic effectiveness, not espionage.View quoted post on X
Oh yes. Hence the craptastic FSB "intel assessments" in early 2022 that Kyiv would fall in days.
But DC isn't much better these days, let's not kid ourselves. US IC leadership knows that Trump doesn't listen, so just tell him what he wants to hear (with lots of pictures).
But DC isn't much better these days, let's not kid ourselves. US IC leadership knows that Trump doesn't listen, so just tell him what he wants to hear (with lots of pictures).
@20committee The same unwillingness to tell bad news up the chain is a big part of the Russia's current problem too.View quoted post on X
False. Soviet intelligence during the Cold War had no great difficulty stealing a wide array of US/Western secrets. But making Party bigwigs listen to unwanted news was another matter. The Soviet system failed at political-economic effectiveness, not espionage.
America won the Cold War mostly because the Russkie spies were, if only barely, more incompetent than our own.View quoted post on X
Ho-hum....
@theoldworldshow The Proud Tower is a fantastic book. I also very much enjoyed The Guns of August for which Tuchman is criticized mercilessly by historians, but try as I might I can only find differences of opinion rather than outright inaccuracies. Her portrayal of Kaiser Wilhelm is brilliant.View quoted post on X
