390+ former national security officials who remain committed to their oaths to “defend the Constitution."
Steady State Sentinel podcast https://apple.co/45rB0JB
On the web: https://www.thesteadystate.org
On Substack: https://steadystate1.substack.com/
Dutch guy with Open Source Intelligence & Analysis skills • OSINT • Certified Instructor @SANSInstitute • SVP of Engineering& Chief Innovator @ shadowdragon.io
Centre for Intelligence Studies at the Norwegian Intelligence School (NORIS).
Research Director Norwegian Intelligence School. Professor Oslo New University College.
Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com
Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Co-host of “The Rest is Classified” podcast
https://linktr.ee/gordoncorera
Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
🇺🇸 husband, girl dad, son, brother 🇺🇸
••• Opinions are my own •••
30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Military and defense issues, as seen from NATOs northern flank.
Special interest: The Russian Navy.
Independent Defense Analyst, all analysis and opinions are my own
The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20
Danish All Source Intelligence Analyst
The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Author of State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory (Routledge 2022). Writing on intelligence history on substack. https://intelligencehistory.substack.com
Intelligence and National Security is a leading journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations and politics.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
Assoc Professor, Virginia Tech Dept. of Political Science; Director - Tech4Humanity Lab (http://tech4humanitylab.org) Former #UARPCV Kivsharivka 🇺🇦 Head of Research, Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies at Virginia Tech. Opinions are my own.
Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. YouTuber. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
Retired CIA Ops Officer and Chief of Station; Georgetown SFS, John Hopkins SAIS, and Author of THE RECRUITER: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.
Former Departmental Historian at GCHQ.
PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
Former counterterrorism intelligence analyst now working as an intelligence educator. I have a tendency to end up in documentaries.
Also single childless woman dog lady who people say achieved something meaningful.
CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅
Historian, academic, fisherman. “Better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.” —Georges Danton
Global Head of Intelligence @ big European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️
https://linktr.ee/yusufozkan
Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Book Review Editor, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Historian interested in intelligence, analysis, warning, secrecy, accountability and espionage pop culture.
Historian of US Army in The First World War. Interested in intelligence and learning development. Available for book reviews. Social media manager at the Strategy Bridge. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧
Fmr Dir Nat. Cryptologic Museum, NSA. Formerly IntlSpyMuseum; Miami native living in DMV; Author - Nuking the Moon, The Nuclear Spies, and Covert City; has “Grave Lack of Discretionary Judgment”-The Catholic Church; lesser half to @jordanspeak.bsky.social
SVP of natsec & intel @ CSPC, policy for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI, ret.), book reviewer for the Diplomatic Courier, GMU NSI Senior Fellow & host of ‘Coffee & Conflict’.
Intelligence, geopolitics, and the Arctic | Global Head of Training & Education, Emergent Risk Interrnational | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
Political scientist, Department of Communication, Lund University. Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies.
New publications:
https://tinyurl.com/ycx4hhzc
https://tinyurl.com/y8p8a3sz
Lecturer at Kings College London, UK Defence Academy. Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford, FRHistS, MRAeS. Historian of War. Author, Broadcaster, TV, Radio.
Rep. @knightayton.bsky.social
Web. https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Personal Account / Hayden Center Director / Led White House Situation Room / Fmr CIA Chief of Staff / Nat'l security & intelligence commentator / Speaker
Political scientist at the University of Melbourne. Formerly of other places. Research: war, intelligence, innovation, and normative change in international politics. Cat paparazzo. He/Him 🇨🇦🏳️🌈✡️
Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications. Also tweeting in Dutch and sometimes in German.
Founding editor, SpyTalk.co. Longtime DC-based natsec journalist. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, CQ/Homeland Security, books, magazine freelance
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...
Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/
Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University
Official Bluesky account for the Women's Intelligence Network (WIN). WIN aims to connect, promote and support female scholars and practitioners working within the field of Intelligence Studies. Contact via chat or e: womenintelnetwork@gmail.com
Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. Does Interpretivist Research on Foreign Policy Analysis. Currently working on Political Myth in diplomacy and foreign policy.
thomaseason.co.uk
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
A transatlantic spy podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
Analyst & writer focused on intelligence and espionage.
alexaobrien.com/about
30+yrs w/CIA🕵️♂️ | ✍️ Burgess Writing: NatSec/Espionage/Insider/Cyber and more | Co-Author Book 📕 Secrets Stolen Fortunes Lost
https://www.burgessct.com/about/bio-christopher/
Researcher focused on Canadian SIGINT activities past and present. Also FVEY and other countries. Citizen Lab Research Fellow. Occasionally compared to a hedgehog. He/him.
Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
A writer and recovering spy.
“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War, knows about War Studies and has an amateur understanding of Space. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Director Operations, NCSC, GCHQ. 30+ years in Government Cyber Operations. Views entirely my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my organisation. 🏴 🇺🇦
SJD. Associate Prof at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Sr Fellow @CIGI. Ex Armoured Officer & DOJ Nat Sec lawyer. Write about the law of spies, robots and terrorism. Sanctioned by Russia.
Naval historian, Dr.phil. @unipotsdam, retired naval officer
Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (t.co/uWXN1eLc0u). PhD. 25+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at University of San Francisco.
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Historian and strategic thinker focused on China, global security, intel studies; all views my own -- personal account
MA in History. Studies intelligence, sea power, air power, and the Asia-Pacific War. Researching U.S. intelligence assessments of Japanese air and sea power, 1919-1941. Andor appreciator, PC gamer, mediocre miniature painter, and musician.
🎓 History PhD
✒️ Writes and teaches -- history, intelligence, and foreign policy
📚 Author, *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* (Editions du Cerf, 2025), *Une chimère américaine* (PULM, 2018)
Nuclear weapons and intelligence history.
Intelligence services and military historian
Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
Assistant Professor at SPIA, Univ. of Pitt. Studying covert action, US FP, int'l security & int'l law. PhD from Princeton Politics, JD from Penn Law. Mom to Amelia & kitty cat crew. She/her.
Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Research Fellow Center for Intermarium Studies Washington D.C. 🏛 Intelligence studies, statecraft, national security https://www.iwp.edu/faculty/nathalie-vogel
Criminology | Sociology | Security and Intelligence Studies
Asst Prof in Intelligence & Security Uni Leiden & Senior Fellow @ibei.org | European foreign & security policy | warning intelligence | realist constructivism | background in Political Science, International Relations, War Studies
Researching intelligence and security.
Currently working on post-Brexit EU security and EU-UK cooperation.
PhD @rhulpir, law and security studies here and there 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇨🇦
PhD Researcher
War Studies, Kings College London
Russia | Intelligence | Strategic Culture | Cold War
views own
Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only
Retired futteret trainer. Sometime civil servant. Fossicker in archives.
Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com
alexzfinley.substack.com
National Security & Cybersecurity | Priors: @cnas.bsky.social Fellow, National Security Reporter @thedailybeast.bsky.social, @cyberscoop.bsky.social, @axios.com | Probably in need of covfefe and a snack | shanvav01 on Signal
Space policy wonk, former engineer, husband, father, Dungeon Master, and all around geek. I post things I find insightful, informative, or provocative
Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
FBI Assistant Director (retired); 25 year veteran Special Agent; Author, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers; and, The FBI Way; Democracy defender.
Senior Investigative Editor @t-online.de, Berlin / Reporting on Foreign influence operations, National security, Lobbying and Crime (Threema: 4E6EXA2Y)
davidehoffman.com — The Oligarchs, The Dead Hand, The Billion Dollar Spy, and Give Me Liberty. Washington Post 2023 editorial series “Annals of Autocracy”: https://wapo.st/3K8LVNd
