Farmajo-Roble row may further disrupt Somali elections

Significance This will complicate the final steps to electing a new government before the end of the year. Impacts The crisis will badly damage Farmajo’s battered reputation ahead of parliament’s vote for president, even if bribes can still sway votes. There is a real risk of spillover into violent conflict, particularly in Mogadishu. The outcome of the power struggle will significantly impact the prospects for meaningful justice for a disappeared intelligence officer.

Analysis of Major Jerzy Sosnowski’s letters to his father against the background of the criminal trial before the Military District Court No. I in Warsaw

The study presents the contents of the letters from the private archive of Major Jerzy Sosnowski, a Polish military intelligence officer operating in Berlin in 1926-1934. The letters are addressed to his father and come from 1937 and 1938. The text presents Major Sosnowski’s profile. Then the circumstances in which the letters were written and their meaning are discussed. Their content was analyzed against the background of the criminal trial before the Military District Court No. I in Warsaw and regarding the current state of knowledge about Major Sosnowski’s fate from crossing the German-Polish border in April 1936 until the sentence in June 1939. The content of the letters proves their author’s personal harm and violations of the law preceding criminal proceedings before the Polish military court, and to some extent, also provide insight into the trial for which the primary sources (court records) have not been preserved.

Mosaic Warfare and Human–Machine Symbiosis

As the director of the Strategic Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA), Timothy leads the office in development of breakthrough technologies to enable war fighters to field, operate, and adapt distributed, joint, multi-domain combat capabilities at continuous speed. He is also founder and president of Fortitude Mission Research LLC and spent several years as a senior intelligence officer with the CIA. Here he illustrates the concept of Mosaic Warfare, in which individual warfighting platforms, just like ceramic tiles in a mosaic, are placed together to make a larger picture. This philosophy can be applied to tackle a variety of human challenges including natural disasters, disruption of supply chains, climate change, pandemics, etc. He also discusses why super AI won’t represent an existential threat in the foreseeable future, but rather an opportunity for an effective division of labour between humans and machines (or human-machine symbiosis). See video at https://youtu.be/_5MkXD_m6Qc

A ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel

This chapter focuses on CIA activity in Berlin and the construction of the Berlin Tunnel with their British counterparts, also known as Operation Gold and Stopwatch. The aim was to intercept USSR communications, by digging a tunnel from the US sector of West Berlin. Bill Harvey was the central figure for the CIA. The chapter also details quite how close the US and UK were operational in this Operation, and the closeness in sharing of technology, and knowledge built upon mutual trust and recognition of expertise. The operation was betrayed. Operation Gold was compromised almost immediately by George Blake, a British intelligence officer, told the USSR. However the USSR did not use the opportunity to mislead the US and UK by sharing disinformation. Blake was too valuable. Document: The Berlin Tunnel Operation 1952-1956

Able Archer and the NATO War Scare

Able Archer 83 was one in a series of NATO exercises designed to test processes, troop movements, secondary missions and tactical nuclear strike against chosen Soviet Bloc targets. The Soviets grew fearful that it was cover for an actual assault. The situation was precarious, perilously close to what generations of analysts considered the most likely cause of a hot war: miscalculation. Fortunately British intelligence had recruited a Soviet intelligence officer, Oleg Gordievsky, who could provide crucial insights, allowing for leaders to offer reassurances and tode-escalate. Documents: Indicators to recognize adversarial preparations for a surprise nuclear missile attack; Implications of Recent Soviet Military-Political Activities.

“Frank Knox’s Fifth Column in Hawai’i: The U.S. Navy, the Japanese, and the Pearl Harbor Attack”

Secretary of Navy Frank Knox declared a week after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor that fifth columnist activities were partly responsible for the success of Imperial Japanese forces. Who and what he meant when he used the phrase “fifth columnist activities” is subject to debate. Most assume he was referring to all Japanese Americans or Japanese nationals residing in Hawai’i. But this essay, based on Knox’s personal correspondence, supplemented with the Pearl Harbor Attack hearings’ published reports, Judge Advocate General records, and the 14th Naval District Intelligence Officer reports, finds that Knox was referring to the Japanese Consul-General Office and a small handful of Japanese American assistants who voluntarily carried out the task of keeping the U.S. Fleet and military installations under surveillance, thereby contributing to the success of the Imperial Japanese attack.

Intelligence Officers Personality, Jobs and Psychology

<p>Intelligence is a complex field yet people are interested to know about many things like, what intelligence and an intelligence officer is, what duties intelligence officers perform, where these officers work, what are an intelligence officer personality features and how these features support intelligence work in different situations? Present paper answered all these questions. Some psychological explanations about intelligence agents have also been presented. Since intelligence jobs are related with analysis, so a few suitable habits for analyzers are also there. A few relevant psychological topics have also been referred for readers those are interested to know about psychology and its use in the field intelligence. The article will fulfill the need of readers to read about basic facts about psychology and intelligence in one paper. The paper is equally useful for beginners and advance readers and would promote the sciences of intelligence and psychology. It would also facilitate the curiosity of general readers about the mysterious field of intelligence and in a few cases psychology.</p>