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…of evidence of a penetration in a security investigation is not in itself evidence of the absence of a penetration. The Russian intelligence service had demonstrated in the past it was well-schooled in covering its tracks in operations against US communications intelligence. For...

…ned in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. Although the terms of this exchange remain secret, defectors from the Russian KGB and SVR reported that Chinese intelligence received from Russia a continuous stream of communication intelligence about the US in the late twentieth...

Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong...

…om nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, to potential jihadist threats everywhere in the world. The Russian intelligence service, on the other hand, could put its limited resources to work on redressing the gap with its main enemy: the United States. Neverthe...

170 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Russians Are Coming "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."—Vladimir Putin In the first invasion of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea...

…liferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, poten- tial jihadist threats everywhere in the world, and much else. The Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, could put its limited resources to work on redressing the gap with its main enemy: the United States. Neverthele...

… to be sure, "I would feel a lot safer if we already had that bomb". Similar insecurity drove sanctioned Cuba to accept Russian missiles in the 1960s, and sanctioned Iraq and Libya to pretend to build weapons of mass destruction in the 1990s. Sanctions never stop bad things happe...

… to be sure, "I would feel a lot safer if we already had that bomb". Similar insecurity drove sanctioned Cuba to accept Russian missiles in the 1960s, and sanctioned Iraq and Libya to pretend to build weapons of mass destruction in the 1990s. Sanctions never stop bad things happe...

…urse we knew,” he said, adding that there were also photographs of Snowden entering the office building that housed the Russian consulate. I mentioned that there was a report in a Russian newspaper that Snowden had visited the Russian consulate in late June in connection with the...

…nd parties that favored independence from the Kremlin and an orientation toward Europe. For the foreseeable future, pro-Russian parties were unlikely to play a major role in Ukrainian political life. Russia responded by seizing and illegally annexing Crimea and fomenting a froze...

…nt’s investigation failed—that they don’t know what was taken” —Edward Snowden in Moscow In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term “espionage source” to describe moles, volunteers and anyone else who delivers another state’s secrets...

138 7 A Formal Model of Intelligent Agents 7.3.3 Pragmatic General Intelligence The above concept of biased universal intelligence is perfectly adequate for many purposes, but it is also interesting to explicitly introduce the notion of a goal into the calculation. This allows...

…amouflage the U-boats. That same hoary principle of deception applies to modern-day communications intelligence. If the Russian, Chinese or any other adversary intelligence service got its hands on the documents stolen by Snowden from the NSA’s repositories in Hawaii in 2013, it...

…ted intelligence failures, and, more recently, but by no means least of all, intelligence leaks regarding his purported Russian relationships and subterfuges. Trump’s criticism seemed to align him with the left in its half century of making a bogeyman of American intelligence ag...

183 Snowden’s trip to Hong Kong in May 2013 made the Chinese intelligence service, willy-nilly, a potential player in game. Hong Kong is a part of China, even if independently administrated, and, as such, China has full responsibility for its national security and foreign affair...