Daily Intel Brief
An alleged Russian spy studied in Ireland, arrests in Prague lead to government turmoil, and House Republicans call for investigations into attacks on pro-life centers...
Counterterrorism
The U.S. government remains deeply concerned about the evolving racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) threat worldwide. An element of it entails violent white supremacists traveling internationally to train and fight with likeminded individuals…
House Republicans are calling on the Department of Justice to investigate recent nationwide attacks on pro-life organizations as acts of domestic terrorism. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, 122 lawmakers cited 14 attacks against pregnancy centers, pro-life…
Military & Defense
The West must prepare to continue supporting Ukraine in a war lasting for years, Nato's chief has warned. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the costs of war were high, but the price of letting Moscow achieve its military goals was even greater. UK Prime Minister Boris…
Britain must have a military capable of fighting in Europe and defeating Russia, the new head of the British army was quoted as telling troops by local media. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a vocal supporter of Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February, has ruled out send…
Cybersecurity
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands disrupted a major botnet operated by Russian cybercriminals that hijacked millions of computers, phones…
For months President Biden and his administration have warned of possible Russian cyberattacks against American infrastructure. On March 21, Biden urged American business leaders to harden their companies’ cyber defenses immediately. He said Russian President…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
With Season 4 of FP’s podcast I Spy in full swing, we thought it was time to revisit some of our best reads on the art of espionage. In this collection of stories, we dive into the history of spycraft, from the theft of trade secrets in 500 B.C. to first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander…
A Russian spy who attempted to secure an internship at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands spent four years studying at Trinity College as part of a covert operation, according to reports. Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, 36, who used a fake Brazilian…
Transnational Organized Crime
A scandal at Prague city hall prompted the Czech Republic’s education minister to resign on Sunday and is threatening the stability of the country’s coalition government, which came to power on a promise to root out corruption and restore liberal democracy…
US military trucks were reported to have smuggled tons of grain from Syria’s north-eastern Hasakah province via an illegal border crossing on Saturday. At least 40 vehicles entered the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq via the al-Waleed border crossing in the…