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Commanders Series

Jan 21, 2015

Intelligence in a Dynamic World

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security on January 21, 2014 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for a Commanders Series event with Dr. Michael G. Vickers, under secretary of defense for intelligence, to discuss the role of defense intelligence in tracking consistently morphing security threats at a time when technology […]

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Security & Defense

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Jan 2, 2015

Lithuania Detains Alleged Russian Spy Ring at Major NATO Airbase

By Damien Sharkov, Newsweek

Several members of an alleged Russian spy ring within the Lithuanian armed forces were detained by the national general prosecution on Wednesday in the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai, near NATO’s major Baltic air base

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NATO

Event Recap

Dec 4, 2014

Adapting Intelligence for New National Security Challenges

By Atlantic Council

In his first public event, the new chairman of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) Dr. Gregory F. Treverton went over a wide range of policy hot topics – from challenges in the Middle East to building governance structures that can handle cyberspace – that benefit from high quality, current intelligence. As the moderator for […]

Intelligence
National Security

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2014

National Intelligence Council Chairman Calls for More Long-Term Intelligence Work

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Russia’s aggressive posture in its neighborhood is an “interesting inflection point in global politics,” much like the fall of the Soviet Union in December of 1991 and al Qaeda’s attack on the US on September 11, 2001, Gregory F. Treverton, chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, told the Atlantic Council. “The first time around […]

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Webcasts

Dec 1, 2014

Adapting Intelligence for New National Security Challenges

By Atlantic Council

Please join the Atlantic Council on December 1, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for the first public on-the-record discussion by Dr. Gregory F. Treverton in his new role as the chairman of the US National Intelligence Council to speak about adapting intelligence analysis for national security efforts.

Intelligence
National Security
Russian embassy in Warsaw

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Nov 17, 2014

Poles, Russians Expel Diplomats Over Spying

By Vanessa Gera, AP

Russian and Polish officials confirmed Monday that they have carried out tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions in an espionage affair that highlights intensified efforts by Moscow to penetrate NATO counties

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NATO
Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun, head of Russia's GRU

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Oct 27, 2014

Czech Intelligence Sees ‘Extremely High’ Number of Russian Spies

By Jan Lopatka, Reuters

Russia deployed an “extremely high” number of intelligence officers at its Czech embassy last year, the NATO member country’s secret service said in an annual report released on Monday.

Central Europe
Intelligence
Swedish attack submarine HMS Gotland

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Oct 17, 2014

Sweden Hunts Suspected Foreign Submarine Off Stockholm Coast

By AFP and Reuters

From AFP:  The Swedish armed forces announced a military operation in islands off Stockholm late Friday evening following reports of suspicious “foreign underwater activity.”

Intelligence
Northern Europe
Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves, Sept. 25, 2009

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Oct 6, 2014

Tensions Surge in Estonia Amid a Russian Replay of Cold War Tactics

By Andrew Higgins, New York Times

So far, the only solid fact, at least according to Estonia’s version of what happened in a thicket of pine trees and scrub on the border here with Russia, is that a well-trained and well-armed squad of Russian security operatives crossed into Estonia on Sept. 5 and grabbed Eston Kohver

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NATO
Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency

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Sep 19, 2014

CIA Halts Spying in Europe

By Ken Dilanian, AP

“The CIA has curbed spying on friendly governments in Western Europe in response to the furor over a German caught selling secrets to the United States and the Edward Snowden revelations of classified information held by the National Security Agency, according to current and former U.S. officials.”

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