How many prying eyes are up in outer space peering down on us? Globally, there are between 2,500 and 2,800 active satellites, including those used for non-surveillance purposes, such as the large satellite internet constellations, like SpaceX’s Starlink. Military and intelligence agency spy satellites account for about a fifth of…

Although CIA operatives are issued 9mm Glocks, they rarely carry them, for most countries are not like Texas- you are not allowed to carry them around and if you get caught doing so, your cover is blown! If things get physical…

Some say there are 17 agencies comprising the Intelligence Community (IC), but that’s if you include the ODNI, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So, that leaves 16 intelligence agencies in the U.S. government. …

The CIA has, for over five years, trained elite Ukrainian special forces in paramilitary fighting techniques. The secretive training location is “somewhere in the southern U.S.

The CIA-trained forces will, no doubt, be assigned to Ukraine’s eastern border, where Russian troops have been positioned by Vladimir Putin, who may order…

Many children have responsible parents who are hunters, and shotguns, deer rifles and pistols are stored in in their homes. Neighbors don’t want to make these gun-owning homes off-limits to their own children, but Sandy Hook Elementary School lingers in their minds. Twenty first graders and six educators were slain…

The CIA maintains safe houses, like this abandoned one in Virginia, to house Russian defectors and to keep them safe from GRU assassins while they are debriefed. Some are rented, some are owned by the Agency, but they blend well into the neighborhood.

In my spy thrillers, the CIA operates…

It was tough to be a CIA operative in the Soviet Union during the Cold War days (It’s still tough today). In the Soviet Union, the KGB kept close surveillance on American spies and State Department officials. Author David E. Hoffman, in his book The Billion Dollar Spy, discusses the…

Gamal Abdel Nasser was a president of Egypt. He was offered a bribe of $3 million by the CIA to join the ‘Middle East Defense Organization’. Interestingly, he took the money but did not join the organization. I guess Langley does not always make good use of our tax dollars.

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