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The Panjshir Protocol
The Taliban offensive in Panjshir appeared to be going swimmingly with Pakistani Special Forces doing the bulk of the fighting. Then unidentified…
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Shaunak Agarkhedkar
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The curious symmetry of Lt Col Zahir's disappearance
Employed by Pakistan's ISI after his retirement from the army, Lt Col Zahir travelled to Nepal in 2017 and disappeared in events remarkably similar to…
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Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Rabinder Singh, double agent
A mediocre R&AW officer and an American diplomat in Damascus, a USAID employee in Delhi, and a CIA officer in Kathmandu.
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Shaunak Agarkhedkar
How Canadian intelligence allowed an aircraft bombing
And then completely botched the investigation, letting all but one conspirator get away with it
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Who burnt the CIA's assets in China?
From 2010 to 2012, the CIA suffered its worst losses in China as the Ministry of State Security went about dismantling spy networks with unerring…
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The hijacking that birthed a nation
Or how to hamstring your enemy before war has even begun
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Shaunak Agarkhedkar
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Omnishambles in Kabul
With US forces leaving Afghanistan, we are seeing the devastating consequences of a counterintelligence program coming undone in Kabul and other cities
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COSMIC TOP SECRET
The world came to within inches of nuclear war in 1983. An act of treachery helped avert it. This is the story of Agent Topaz.
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The Billion Dollar Spy
or "the man who ruined the Soviet warplane industry in less than a decade"
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How to fool the CIA: Part One
Are you a young extremist eager to make an outsized impact in the fight against the United States, but don’t know where to start?
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FBI's cover-up — Karen Silkwood, part 2
Missing plutonium, FBI's stonewalling, and a mysterious journalist with a murky history
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The Death of Karen Silkwood — Part One
The plutonium plant employee highlighted lax safety protocols and investigated faked quality control data, making a frightening discovery in the…
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