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What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

This entry was posted in Iran, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Anas al-Sahaba, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ghraib Prison, Abu Julaybeeb, Abu Julaybib, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Filistini, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Filistini, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad Husayn al-Shara, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, Al-Aqsa Intifada, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, Ali Muhammad al-Shara, Ali Muhammad al-Sharaa, Amjad Muzafar Husayn Ali al-Nuaymi, Anas Hassan Khattab, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Arab-Afghans, Askari Mosque, atrocities, Awakening, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ba’ath, Ba’athists, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri, Bosnia, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corrective coup, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Fadel al-Hiyali, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawud, Haji Mutaz, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Husayn al-Shara, Husayn Ali al-Shara, Hussein al-Sharaa, Hussein Ali al-Sharaa, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ikhwan, information operation, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic resistance, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Quds, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, Joint Special Operations Command, Jordan, JSOC, Juhayman al-Otaybi, Juhayman al-Utaybi, Jund al-Sham, KGB, Lebanon, Maysar al-Jabouri, Maysar al-Jiburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Juburi, Mosul, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad al-Sudani, mukhabarat, muqawama, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abd al-Latif al-Saleh, Nasserism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, pan-Arabism, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, radicalism, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sabereen, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahwa, Salafism, Saleh al-Hamawi, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, Second Intifada, secret police, Sednaya, September 11 attacks, Shah, shari’a, Shi’a militias, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Surge, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taji Prison, terrorism, The Army of Jerusalem, United Arab Republic, Wahhabism, Zarqawists on May 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, anchoring, Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, Antisemitism, barrier troops, Central Statistical Administration, Chechnya, ChGK, Communism, communists, de-Stalinisation, demographics, extermination, Extraordinary State Commission, fascism, Gaza, Germany, Goskomstat, Great Patriotic War, GULAG, Haiti, HAMAS, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Holodomor, information operations, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Katyn massacre, KGB, Leningrad, Leonid Brezhnev, Michael Ellman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis, need for closure, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Palestinians, Partisans, political warfare, propaganda, psychology, Red Army, Russia, S. Maksudov, Saint Petersburg, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, Statistical Herald, Sudan, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vestnik Statistiki, Victory Day, Viktor Zemskov, Volga Germans, Volgograd, Wehrmacht, Yemen, Yezhovshchina, Yu. A. Polyakov, zagraditelnye otriady on April 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alien Registration Act, Andrew Goodman, Baptists, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Davis, Black Panthers, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Christianity, Christians, civil rights, Clarence Jones, COINTELPRO, Communism, Communist Party, Counterintelligence Program, CPUSA, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene Dennis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francis Xavier Waldron, George Wallace, Great Migration, Great Terror, Gus Hall, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, informants, Intelligence, Internal Security Act, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Childs, Jack O’Dell, James Chaney, Jesse Jackson, Jewish-Americans, Jews, JFK, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, John Seigenthaler, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KKK, Korean War, Ku Klux Klan, LBJ, Left-wing extremism, Lyndon B. Johnson, MANHATTAN Project, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Marxists, Michael Schwerner, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New Left, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Nobel Peace Prize, Operation BARBAROSSA, peace movement, Poverty Program, racialism, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Ross Barnett, SCLC, Second World War, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Levison, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Subversive Activities Control Act, surveillance, urban guerrillas, Vietnam War, Viola Liuzzo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Weather Underground, William C. Sullivan, Yezhovshchina on November 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Legacy of Nazi Relations in the Arab World

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 June 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abd al-Karim Qasim, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abu Hassan, Abwehr, active measures, Adolf Eichmann, Ahmad Husayn, Al-Alam al-Arabi, Al-Fatwa, Al-Futuwwa, Alfred Rosenberg, Ali Hassan Salameh, Alija Izetbegovic, Alija Izetbegović, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, Arab Brigade, Arab Freedom Corps, Arab Revolt, Arabs, Army of the Holy War, Axis, Azerbaijan, Ba’ath Party, Babi Yar, Balkans, battle of Tours, Benito Mussolini, Black September, Bludan, Blue Shirts, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Catholicism, Chechnya, Christianity, CIA, COMINTERN, Communism, Crimea, Endlösung, Farhud, fascism, Fascist Italy, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Final Solution, First Arab-Israeli War, Free Officers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fritz Grobba, Gamal Abdel Nasser, German-Arab Training Group, Germany, Gottlob Berger, Green Shirts, Haavara Agreement, Handschar Division, Handžar Division, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan al-Banna, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Wolff, Hitler Youth, Holocaust, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Division, Israel, Israeli War of Independence, Japan, Jews, Joseph Goebbels, KGB, Khairallah Talfah, Lebanon, Lillehammer affair, Mandate Palestine, Mein Kampf, Michel Aflaq, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Moscow Centre, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich massacre, Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg rally, Operation ATLAS, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Party of Democratic Action, Peel Commission, PLO, propaganda, racism, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Red Prince, Reiner Olzscha, Russia, Sacred Jihad Army, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Schutzstaffel, SDA, Second World War, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vatican, Völkischer Beobachter, Wafd Party, Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Stellbogen, Yasser Arafat, Young Egypt Party, Young Muslims, Zionism on June 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, agitprop, Anti-COMINTERN Pact, Antisemitism, Axis, Baltics, BBC, Blitzkrieg, Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo Conference, Cambridge spies, capitalism, Casablanca Conference, CCP, Charles Robertson, Cheka, Chekists, Chetniks, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, collaborators, collectivisation, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, CPUSA, Croats, D-Day, democracy, Draža Mihailović, espionage, FDR, Finland, Fitzroy Maclean, France, Frank Coe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgi Dimitrov, Germany, Great Fatherland War, Great Patriotic War, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Imperialism, industrialisation, Intelligence, Iron Curtain, Ivan Yeaton, James Klugmann, Japan, Joseph E. Davies, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, Katyn massacre, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Lend-Lease, Leon Trotsky, Lev Mekhlis, Loy Henderson, Magnificent Five, Mao Zedong, Maxim Litvinov, MI6, militant atheism, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, New Deal, NKVD, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation OVERLORD, Operation PIKE, Partisans, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Poland, Potsdam Conference, propaganda, PURKKA, Ray Atherton, Red Army, Richard Sorge, Robert F. Kelley, Rudolf Hess, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, Serbia, Shoah, show trials, SIS, slaves, Solomon Adler, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, Special Operations Executive, spies, Stalin’s War, Suvorov hypothesis, Suvorov thesis, Tehran Conference, totalitarianism, Truman Doctrine, Ukraine, ULTRA secret, United States, VENONA, Viktor Suvorov, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Potemkin, Vladimir Rezun, Vozhd, Vyacheslav Molotov, Walter Duranty, Warsaw Uprising, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Yalta Conference, Yezhovshchina, Yugoslavia on May 31, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Ana Belen Montes, Axis, Bay of Piglets, Bill Clinton, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, CCP, Chavista, Chile, Chilean coup, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, colonialism, Commandante, Communism, Communist Cuba, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Defense Intelligence Agency, DGI, DI, DIA, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, espionage, Evo Morales, FBI, Fidel Castro, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Services Institute, General Intelligence Directorate, INR, Intelligence, Intelligence Directorate, Iran, Israel, James Olson, Justice Department, Kendall Myers, KGB, La Red Avispa, Marta Rita Velasquez, Marxism, NSC, Peronism, Raul Castro, Red China, Rolando Cubela Secades, Russia, Salvador Allende, South Vietnam, SOUTHCOM, Soviet Union, spies, State Department, The WASP Network, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Security Council, United States, United States Southern Command, USAID, Victor Manuel Rocha on March 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin Didn’t Go Quite As He Planned

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alsu Kurmasheva, assassination, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Central Intelligence Agency, Chechnya, Cheka, China, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Dagestan, ethnic cleansing, Evan Gershkovich, FSB, George W. Bush, History, Hungary, Intelligence, Islam, Jews, jihadism, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, KGB, Left-wing, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Custine, Muslims, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NSA, Orthodox Christianity, Poland, post-liberal, propaganda, religion, revisionism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, secret police, Serbs, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, special services, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Ukraine, Useful Idiots, Vadim Krasikov, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, War on Terror, Yugoslavia, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili on February 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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