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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…
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Sep 12, 2021
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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…
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Nov 24, 2021
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The Billion Dollar Spy
or "the man who ruined the Soviet warplane industry in less than a decade"
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Aug 3, 2020
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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.
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Sep 21, 2020
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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
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Aug 17, 2021
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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…
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Nov 14, 2022
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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.
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Jan 11, 2022
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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?
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Aug 2, 2022
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The hijacking that birthed a nation
Or how to hamstring your enemy before war has even begun
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Sep 9, 2022
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CIA, Ford Foundation, and Political Warfare
How the CIA cultivated and controlled a political warfare group in West Berlin with a little bit of help from the Ford Foundation
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Feb 6, 2022
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The Berlin tunnel
How $6.5 million and a 1,476-foot tunnel netted the CIA and MI6 intelligence from East Berlin for 11 months and 11 days in 1955
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Apr 29, 2022
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The man who was friends with the Taliban
Haji Bashir Noorzai fought the Soviets, ran a trucking business, befriended the Taliban, worked for the CIA, and enjoyed a holiday in Manhattan.
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Jan 4
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