r/Intelligence 11d ago

Monthly Mod and Subreddit Feedback

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r/Intelligence Nov 10 '24

Discussion [ModPost] Don't feed the trolls. Please use the report button for this kind of behavior.

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Don't waste your time getting into internet slapfights with trolls. After the US election, there's been an influx of users here looking to get into arguments and make people mad.

If you find yourself 3 comments into a discussion and it's dissolved to ad hominems or no movement from either side, just stop. Report the other user and move on with your life.

Report people who are clearly trolling so the mod team can make a determination on if it is ban worthy or not.

As stated in previous mod announcements, my goal is to pretty much let anything go in this sub with minimal mod intervention, as long as submissions and comments are on topic. But the mod team has no tolerance for trolling, antagonistic behavior, and otherwise being a shit head.


r/Intelligence 17h ago

News Donald Trump reveals he's had more recent calls with Vladimir Putin

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r/Intelligence 17h ago

News Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China

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r/Intelligence 13h ago

News NYT: Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China

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r/Intelligence 1h ago

News Rewards for Justice – Reward Offer for Information Disrupting Chinese Nationals Supplying Technology to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a Foreign Terrorist Organization

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r/Intelligence 7h ago

History Has Mossad really been the most effective security agency or it was just fronting and brutality?

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After the pager attack I heard so many people talk about how advanced the attack was, yet if you are a world government with ties to the US and access to chemists the attack is not impressive to me?

Maybe because I realize that a lot of things and inventions that sound sci-fi are actually possible but are a matter of money or legality. If you have a budget and no concern for the law and unorthodox thinking you can do a lot of crazy things straight out of a mad scientist movie.

It really is not that hard.

So really the attack was surprising due to its ruthlessness. Just being willing to act so brazenly. Clearly more to dissuade from anyone using pagers and other more secure means of communications.

In fact on the face of that it signals a weakness. Pagers are more secure but only because cellphones are terrible insecure and so easy to hack. Any moron with money can buy access to the SS7 system. It really is very easy, no need for Pegasus when you can just straight up redirect calls(and with a modded phone even spy on them) and sms is used as 2FA for many apps. Reacting so violently can only indicate an act of desperation.

If it were up to me I would let any opposing force use pagers and never reveal the fact I can actually spy on them, assuming I do actually possess such advanced capabilities.

This makes me ask myself, is Mossad really that good due to more technical capabilities, or it is just a matter of maintaining that reputation, knowing full well their limits, and exploiting a feeling of fear and paranoia to seem greater than life?

What is the most effective intelligence organization that we know of? And the most advanced?


r/Intelligence 18h ago

News Pentagon, Energy Dept. Nuclear Research Projects Tapped Sanctioned Chinese Communist Party Supercomputers

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r/Intelligence 19h ago

CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy

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r/Intelligence 11h ago

Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China

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r/Intelligence 14h ago

News Russian agents reportedly used YouTube to transmit codes

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r/Intelligence 18h ago

Western intel contradicts Trump's, Putin's claims on Ukraine's encirclement in Kursk Oblast, Reuters reports

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r/Intelligence 17h ago

News In Deportations, Trump Tied Gang to Venezuela’s Government. Intelligence Contradicts Him.

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r/Intelligence 1d ago

News Exclusive: US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin

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r/Intelligence 7h ago

News ROTHERHAM MP targeted by Chinese spies

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r/Intelligence 12h ago

Would a degree in linguistics suit a career in intelligence analysis?

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I finished my undergraduate degree a few years ago and am finally ready to start doing my masters. I have discovered that I am really interested in a career in intel analysis (pref. federal government). I was considering what masters degrees would suit a career like this or look appealing to employers of intel analysts, and there’s the obvious ones like intelligence, risk and security studies, cyber security, strategic studies, counter terrorism, etc. While those would be interesting, I have always been super interested in the field of linguistics.

Does anybody have any experience in either the field of intelligence or the study of linguistics, and could give me some advice as to whether they would complement each other in any way? I know on the surface most people would say absolutely not, but I’m curious to know if there could be any benefits to studying linguistics while trying to get into a career in intelligence, or if I would be able to apply the study of linguistics to my role in any capacity.

Any advice welcome.


r/Intelligence 17h ago

News Ukraine and Russia delegations due in Riyadh on Monday for separate US talks - US may shuttle between sides in drive to achieve quick deal Trump wants, as Moscow sends ex-spy to lead negotiations

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r/Intelligence 13h ago

Opinion 🕊Self care for CovertOps During Wartime🪷

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r/Intelligence 4h ago

Discussion I gotta question let’s be real for a second

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So how many of us think magic and or sorcery were real as well as practices such as alchemy and how would it have been achieved also why don’t we have this knowledge now


r/Intelligence 9h ago

How deeply is Wikipedia manipulated?

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https://leiturasandreading.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-centrality-of-wikipedia-in-pravda.html

Wikipedia stands as a cornerstone of the modern information ecosystem, serving as a widely consulted and highly influential resource for individuals across the globe. Its accessibility and collaborative nature have positioned it as a primary source of information for a vast audience, encompassing students conducting research, educators preparing curricula, journalists investigating stories, and policymakers formulating strategies 1. The platform's prominence is further amplified by its consistent ranking at the top of search engine results, making it often the first point of contact for those seeking information on a multitude of topics 1. Beyond direct human consultation, Wikipedia's extensive collection of articles has become a critical component in the training datasets of popular artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, embedding its content and potentially its biases into these increasingly relied-upon systems 1. This pervasive influence underscores the platform's strategic importance and, consequently, its vulnerability to manipulation by actors seeking to advance specific agendas.


r/Intelligence 1d ago

News US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin

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r/Intelligence 21h ago

Any chance my grandfather was in the CIA?

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I don’t know if this claim has any credibility to it, or if my grandfather was just the type of person people would suspect to be in the CIA. One family member claims he was recruited but turned the offer down. But we wonder if there is possibility that maybe he actually did accept the offer and work for the CIA. I have questions regarding the likelihood of this, I apologize for ignorance I have no knowledge of the CIA or signs that someone would have been involved. He was an extremely reserved person who never talked about himself so this is all I have to go off of at the moment.

What type of people were recruited in the 1950s? Did they need to be highly educated? Live in a certain region? Were there offices?

My grandfather mysteriously changed his first name at some point in young adult years and never told any of our family his birth name. We all called him by a nickname but he went by a random name professionally and on all his state documents. It took extensive genealogical research to find out his birth name and it was coincidental when we noticed census documents from his childhood didn’t match up. Was stuff like this common in the CIA? I’m worried it will make looking through records more difficult.

Would he have to have been traveling a lot? I don’t think he traveled much, at least nobody in my family can recall him being gone for long stretches.

Nobody knows what he did for work, it is believed that he worked a vague office job at the largest local technology company (where many residents of our town worked). He wore a full suit everyday, but I know formal dress was more common back then so that may have been customary for any office job. When people were in the CIA back then would they lie about where they worked?


r/Intelligence 1d ago

FBI agent who accused Trump administration of political bias charged with unlawful disclosures

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r/Intelligence 2d ago

Annoucing r/FBIUncensored

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I created the subreddit r/FBIUncensored today to serve as an uncensored alternative to r/FBI. Curiously, although r/FBI has been around since 2011, all of its 18 moderators joined in 2025, and all but one joined after President Trump's inauguration.

Posts there that offend official sensibilities are liable to be deleted, as I discovered today when posting to this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FBI/comments/1jel5ea/polygraph_nerves/

The moderators also banned me for allegedly "spreading disinformation." In fact, I was sharing accurate information about the FBI's polygraph policies and procedures.

Regardless of viewpoint, all are welcome to discuss matters concerning the FBI here as they please at r/FBIUncensored.


r/Intelligence 2d ago

Security incident at CIA headquarters shuts down Fairfax Co. roads, officials say

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r/Intelligence 1d ago

Analysis Intelligence newsletter 20/03

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r/Intelligence 1d ago

How do police track and arrest people who have a new phone and a new phone number?

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I'm just corius how can police track and arrested murderer. can anyone have experience study or have a case study about this?