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Russia Providing More Evidence It Supports And Finances Terrorism

Russian military trucks were caught by the OSCE sneaking into Ukraine, avoiding border crossings and accountability.  If Russia has nothing to hide, why is it sneaking into Donbas?  This is “hard” OSCE...

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Alliance for Securing Democracy: 24 September 2018 Securing Democracy Dispatch

Securing Democracy Dispatch   September 24, 2018 Dear readers, We are in the process of re-designing the Securing Democracy Dispatch, and would appreciate your feedback. Please take a few minutes to...

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The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes

Fake videos are now detectable with new tools devised by the Department of Defense.  </end editorial> Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may...

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Russia Did Influence The US 2016 Election

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., just released a book: Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know.  I have real heartburn about the title. It was...

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Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (156)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. I certainly did not expect the sort of write-up I received from our anonymous expert, as a result of a newspaper article about me. I will include...

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Guy Verhofstadt: Hungary is a threat to international order. The US must act...

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Verhofstadt has a point. Following the Orban regime’s foreign policy mischief in NATO, the EU, and Ukraine, it is...

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Russians Harass Ukrainian Navy Units in Azov Sea and Black Sea (2)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Russia is creating new provocations every day in the Sea of Azov, yet they complain about others. Pshaw. Nobody respects Russia. </end...

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Lawrence Martin-Bittman, who spread disinformation as a spy before teaching...

It’s shame that someone must die in order for us to gain this unique insight into how the Soviets spread disinformation.  We also learn how the Soviets were duplicitous, causing Lawrence Bittman to...

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Russia Losing the War of the Churches (6)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Nothing is more Russian than self-flagellation when they can make themselves appear the victim of any situation.  Unfortunately, Russia is the...

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How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies

The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage. And it’s not ready to fight back. By ZACH DORFMAN July 27, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO—In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out...

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Lawmakers Urge More Spending on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a...

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Russia in Review: September 14 – 25, 2018

Institute for the Study of War Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Russia in Review is a weekly intelligence summary (INTSUM) produced by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). This ISW INTSUM series sheds...

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China And Sweden At Odds Over SVT ‘Humor’

Sweden and China are having words over a Swedish humor channel’s racist videos. It does not look likely this little scandal will escalate but it also does not look likely that it will go away. Here is...

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Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (157)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. It appears like all the Israeli news sources are urging caution, now that Russia is giving an S-300 to Syria. It’s almost as if Russia and Syria...

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Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga

by Bellingcat Investigation Team Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia...

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Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (157) – Addendum

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Some excellent effort by Bellingcat – GRU Spetsnaz well and truly burned. Reported to have received Hero of the Russian...

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Russia Is Running an Actual Contest to Troll the World

Moscow is switching from covert to overt means to influence Americans and others, helped by a U.S. president who has set an example and given it cover. By Kimberly Dozier 09.25.18 4:43 AM ET Forget...

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Russian troll sites infiltrated Donald Trump subreddit as recently as this month

By Russell Brandom@russellbrandom  Sep 24, 2018, 1:52pm EDT Reddit users have uncovered an elaborate campaign to seed Reddit’s most popular pro-Trump community with content linked to Russian influence...

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How China’s army of online trolls turned on Sweden

It looks like China’s ‘unofficial’ troll army is responding to the racist SVT YouTube video.   A tour through China’s Troll Army’s Facebook page, 帝吧大军根据地, reveals quite a bit.  On the SVT ‘humor’ page,...

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U.S. Case Involved Alleged Russian Intelligence Theft Through Kaspersky

September 26, 2018 02:30 GMT RFE/RL A U.S. intelligence worker has been sentenced to prison for transferring top-secret material to a home computer that was allegedly accessed by Russian intelligence...

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