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Dr. Dan Lomas

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Assistant Professor @NottsPolitics . Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence πŸ“š πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Views my own.

Nottingham, England
Joined September 2021
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Latest contribution to @RUSI_org on the use of social media by western HUMINT agencies to encourage recruitment in Russia. Bottom line: we should do more. Poking the Bear: Social Media and Human Intelligence Recruitment.
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"We just love diving near underwater gas pipelines. Nord Stream 1 and 2 are famous".
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"One of the most controversial Islamist groups in the UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks".
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The Russian military now:
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2 years
SIGINT and HUMINT
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1 year
"We could get them to study some form of maths to 18".
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HUMINT OSINT
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10 months
✍️ "I have been waiting until you had settled in to tell you the story about the Fourth Man..." Cabinet Secretary Sir John Hunt to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, May 1979.
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2 years
If anyone asks about the situation in Ukraine, I'll explain with this meme:
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9 months
"Apology accepted, Yevgeny".
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11 months
"We also found a CIA cap, some Hershey bars and a note in crayon saying 'It wuz the CIA' on the seabed".
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BREAKING: @TheGrayzoneNews led the first independent expedition investigating the Nord Stream bombings. Near one of the blast sites, they discovered a diving boot used by US Navy divers. Why didn’t the Swedish investigators collect the boot or mention it in their statements?
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1 year
This week, I'll be introducing my undergrads to intelligence analysis/assessment.
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3 months
UK intelligence: best in the world
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2 years
"We just love the International Criminal Court".
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"I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fucking furious".
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2 years
Russia's War in Ukraine: Military and Intelligence Aspects Interesting updated report. πŸ”—
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10 months
The UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has released a long awaited report on #China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Timing comes after the passage of the National Security Bill and Christine Lee's appeal against MI5 warning. πŸ‘€
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1 year
Stonehouse seems "quaint compared with the brazeness of members of his party today". Erm, Stonehouse was a Labour MP.
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2 years
Erm, lads. You missed out the bit between 1939 - 1941. #JustSayin
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Liberation of πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± cost USSR over 600k soldiers & officers. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±Gov stated: Polish people will never forget they gained their freedom thanks to brilliant victories of Soviet arms, thanks to abundant blood of heroic Soviet fighters. But #Poland HAS forgotten…
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2 years
πŸ“š New reading:
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2 years
"There is a point of tension in the system. As much as they respect the former KGB man [Putin] for being a strong leader, the Russian general staff are going to be made scapegoats for his mess".
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"Eight serving European intelligence officials and diplomats interviewed by the Financial Times said Russia’s covert operations in Europe had been expanding at a rate that counter-espionage efforts have struggled to match".
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2 years
πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ"All those on the list were registered as living in the Lubyanka, the service’s Moscow headquarters. According to the list, one alleged agent used β€œjamesbond007” as part of his Skype address".
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2 years
✍"Western intelligence sources say Russian forces have encountered far stronger Ukrainian resistance than they had expected and this was significantly slowing their advances since their invasion began on Thursday".
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πŸ”₯"Setting fire to electric relay cabinets, which control signal crossings and gates, has proved the most common method of disruption. The cabinets are often found on remote stretches of track making them an easy target".
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1 year
Yeah, because lack of wokeness is an effective measure of combat effectiveness.
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China’s military vs our military:
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5 months
Yearly reminder that Father Christmas runs the largest HUMINT network in history.
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11 months
"President Joe Biden’s administration was working to declassify some of the intelligence and share it as early as Tuesday afternoon".
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2 years
Meanwhile in the land of clickbait ...
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1 year
Commentary on intelligence and the war in Ukraine:
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"I hear you're a Prigozhin expert now, Father!"
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2 years
πŸ’¬Intelligence "allowed both Ukraine and the Western powers to go into the current crisis forearmedΒ becauseΒ they were forewarned". Some thoughts with colleagues on the importance of #intelligence at the start of the #UkraineWar for @WarOnTheRocks . πŸ”—
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2 years
"Lads, you messed up the sim card stuff last time. Try and make it more genuine with a UK flag".
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Here we go - another 'Ukrainian Nazism sympathizer' detailed by the FSB this morning is clearly wearing a British MI6 uniform
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SIS, JIO, MI5, GCHQ
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"And is 77th Brigade still in the room with us now, Wyatt?"
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1 year
Politicians: "Spying on allies isn't done, we're all friends". Intelligence agencies:
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1 year
"I hear you're an expert on Finnish defence now, Father!"
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2 years
πŸ’¬ "The German government received the CIA tip in summer, Spiegel reported, citing unnamed sources, adding that Berlin assumes a targeted attack on Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines".
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1 year
US intelligence with parts of πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ balloon like:
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2 years
"I hear you're an expert on the road and rail infrastructure of the Crimea now, Father!"
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"I hear you're an expert on the Middle East now, Father!"
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10 months
Mate, I'm not sure you understand espionage ...
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2 years
πŸ“šThis is an absolutely amazing book. Big picture stuff. Highly recommend (even if I should be reading research related stuff). πŸ‘€
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NEW: Foreign Affairs Committee report on #Wagner Group in #Africa . Seventh Report - Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed
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"We've just always wanted to present MOTD".
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2 years
πŸ†•οΈ Intelligence & Security Committee report on Extreme Right Wing Terrorism. πŸ”—
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9 months
We're going to get Prigozhin truthers now, aren't we?
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"Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia's trade relationships".
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1 year
πŸ“‚ US document security like:
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"We just love cleaning and fitting windows".
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"I hear you're an expert on special forces now, Peter!" Note my sarcasm, he's not.
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"I hear you're an expert on treachery now, Elon".
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10 months
Intelligence academics welcome James Bond film but say it fails to depict collection, all-source assessment and policy impact.
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"I hear you're an expert on the Ukrainian offensive now, Father!"
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"According to a sworn statement by an FBI agent who investigated Teixeira, the 21-year-old shared government information in at least three Discord servers, one of which had some foreign nationals among its 150 members".
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HUMINT, IMINT, SIGINT
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US intelligence officials to WP journalists:
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"I hear you're an expert on Prigozhin now, Father!"
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1 year
Gerasimov updating Putin like:
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Today's events are significant enough that Rybar has made a map of them.
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2 years
Who is Kim Philby? The downfall of a jolly spiffing intelligence officer.
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BBC News (UK)
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Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The downfall of a favourite daughter
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"Having entered a brothel and taken my clothes off, I made up the story of a foreign honeytrap to save face".
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Tory MP who found himself naked in brothel at 4am feared he was victim of foreign honeytrap
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"Western intelligence agencies also lack a critical mass of relevant language skills ... During the Cold War, the West was full of Russian speakers and experts in Soviet culture. By comparison, there is little knowledge and understanding of China".
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"One diplomat told me that she returned to her flat in Moscow ... to find the magnetised letters on her fridge had been re-arranged to spell FSB". BBC News - Russia imposes travel restrictions on UK diplomats
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2 years
πŸ‘ @PrivateEyeNews with typically tongue in cheek coverage of Richard Moore's speech last month:
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"Bond is an officer, not an agent".
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10 months
"Though the volume and nature of OSINT certainly poses questions for modern-day intelligence agencies, it would be wrong to see its presence as throwing into doubt the latter's importance". Some thoughts for @RUSI_org on intelligence in the digital age.
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When you go out in Cheltenham and say HUMINT is better:
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When Q Branch go to the races πŸ‘€
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Very much a proud to be British moment here
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Psst! They've not.
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Ric CoIe πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§
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Who's a fictional military leader you'd follow into combat?
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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± "says it hasΒ arrested a Russian nationalΒ on suspicion that he allegedly collected information about Poland's military units, their supplies, and staff members at the request of Russian intelligence".
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"And at this point, having brought my own booze, I realised I had accidentally attended a party".
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πŸ“š This little book continues to be a useful resource on UK intelligence.
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1 year
Keeping secret intelligence safe?
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Can you?
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"I hear you're a Ukrainian offensive expert now, Father!"
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The Sandbaggers, the best spy drama ever made for TV. The Bureau, hold my beer:
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Phyllis Latour obituary "Member of the Special Operations Executive in the second world war who was parachuted into France a month before D-day".
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πŸ“š New reading:
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2 years
"... this is an important moment for the US intelligence community". The sentiment is true, yes. Western intelligence has got so much right. But it's not as if this is the only intelligence success in recent years.
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1 year
"The sentries report tank experts to the southwest - thousands of 'em".
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"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to do all-source assessment".
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Andrew, you ok hun?
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