Michael S Goodman @msg77.bsky.social Professor and Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Threat Finance Intelligence - Consultancy & Training AML/CTF/CPF @andrew-mackay.bsky.social Independent AML/CTF/CPF Consultant and Trainer
Associate Fellow, RUSI CFS - Royal United Services Institute, Centre for Finance and Security
Doctoral Candidate (UPEACE) - Illicit Finance
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Sven Johanson 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 @svenjohanson.bsky.social Retired #Veteran USAF and Senior National Intelligence Service Officer. “Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
#DNI. Harvard and MSU #Spartans #Sparty #GoGreen and #Raiders #RNFL.
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
Andrew Harris @andrewharris.bsky.social UK Civil Servant and proud of it. Defence Historian. #ColdWar and current UK #strategy & #defence policy. #Wargaming and Red Teaming.
THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary: @LeverhulmeTrust funded project based at @READEnglish, Durham University: https://soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social Promoting Intelligence Studies in Israel by facilitating knowledge sharing & collaboration among scholars, both within Israel & abroad.
Søren Sjøgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social Military officer | PhD | Institute head of R&D at the Royal Danish Defence College | Editor @sjms.bsky.social | Doctrine, planning, and command.
Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies @sjms.bsky.social An online, open access journal publishing both high quality research and valuable practice-oriented studies relevant to the military profession (www.sjms.nu)
Tom Griffin @tcgriffin.bsky.social Author of State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory (Routledge 2022). Writing on intelligence history on substack. https://intelligencehistory.substack.com
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net College prof, ex-UK cop, host of the Reducing Crime podcast, scientific advisor to the IACP. In my spare time, I try not to crash planes.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BOJIm0QAAAAJ
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-6761
Kiril Avramov @avramovok.bsky.social Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Non-Resident Fellow to the Intelligence Studies Project @LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Bjørn E. M. Grønning @bjorngronning.bsky.social Deputy Research Director, Norwegian Intelligence School.
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social Public Policy scholar; Assistant Professor, @UTEP Intelligence & National Security Studies (INSS); @ClementsCenter alum; @SocIntelHist; IC veteran.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Vince Houghton @intelhistorian.bsky.social Fmr Dir Nat. Cryptologic Museum, NSA. Formerly IntlSpyMuseum; Miami native living in DMV; Author - Nuking the Moon, The Nuclear Spies, and Covert City; has “Grave Lack of Discretionary Judgment”-The Catholic Church; lesser half to @jordanspeak.bsky.social
Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (t.co/uWXN1eLc0u). PhD. 25+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at University of San Francisco.
Eva Michaels @evamichaels.bsky.social Asst Prof in Intelligence & Security Uni Leiden & Senior Fellow @ibei.org | European foreign & security policy | warning intelligence | realist constructivism | background in Political Science, International Relations, War Studies 
Dr. Claudia Hillebrand @ckhillebrand.bsky.social 👋 I mainly share posts about contemporary intelligence 🕵🏼♀️🕵️♂️, state secrecy 🤫, politics 🌍, and cats 🐈⬛ 🐈.
Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social SVP of natsec & intel @ CSPC, policy for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI, ret.), book reviewer for the Diplomatic Courier, GMU NSI Senior Fellow & host of ‘Coffee & Conflict’.
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and strategy | Vice President of Strategy, Emergent Risk International | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com Global Head of Intelligence @ big European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
Melanie Brand @melaniebrand.bsky.social Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Associate Editor, Intelligence & National Security; JPICT. Historian interested in intelligence, analysis, warning, secrecy, accountability and espionage pop culture.
Damien Van Puyvelde @dvanp.bsky.social Associate Professor | Head of Intelligence & Security Research Group @unileiden.bsky.social
Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social Prof, Foreign Policy and IR, OU. Writes on British defence, intel and foreign policy. Associate Fellow, Chatham House. Views my own.
Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
Dr Steven Wagner @stevenbwagner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) @kcsi.uk KCSI is a diverse group of leading intelligence scholars & practitioners working together to better understand the evolving global security landscape. https://kcsi.uk/ 
Women's Intelligence Network @womenknowintel.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the Women's Intelligence Network (WIN). WIN aims to connect, promote and support female scholars and practitioners working within the field of Intelligence Studies. Contact via chat or e: womenintelnetwork@gmail.com- G Gill Bennett @gillhistory.bsky.social Intelligence historian, music-lover
Tony Craig @tonycraig.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Tony Comer @tonycomer.bsky.social Former Departmental Historian at GCHQ.
Prof Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social Academic researcher in intelligence and security, currently Dean of Faculty, but posting in a personal capacity. Poor standard runner. Excitable cricketer. Prone to crunchy deductions....
Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Simon Willmetts @swillmetts.bsky.social Cultural historian with an interest in secrecy, intelligence agencies, and their impact upon wider culture and society. I work at Leiden University, but my views here are my own.
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Dr Aviva Guttmann @guttmannaviva.bsky.social Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, research and teaching in intelligence, strategy, history, IR, terrorism & CT
Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics, University of Lincoln. Parliament, the intelligence services, a little bit of social policy.
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social 
Stephen M. Grenier @warprof.bsky.social Faculty Director, Global Security Studies Program @jhu.edu | former soldier | Chair, International Security Section @apsa.bsky.social | long suffering fan of Scottish 🏴 & Welsh Rugby 🏴
Buckingham Centre for Security & Intelligence Studies. @bucsisintel.bsky.social BUCSIS offers a range of security and intelligence programmes - taught & online including research degrees. #HUMINT #CovertAction. https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/bucsis
@douglaslondon.bsky.social @douglaslondon.bsky.social Retired CIA Ops Officer and Chief of Station; Georgetown SFS, John Hopkins SAIS, and Author of THE RECRUITER: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social Personal Account / Hayden Center Director / Led White House Situation Room / Fmr CIA Chief of Staff / Nat'l security & intelligence commentator / Speaker
Military Intelligence Museum @milintmuseum.bsky.social Official page for the Military Intelligence Museum. Learn about the history of British Military Intelligence, from the Boer War to the current day.
https://www.militaryintelligencemuseum.org/book-your-visit
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@patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.
NSIST @nsistuk.bsky.social National Signals Intelligence and Security Trust (www.nsist.org)
Stephen Marrin @smarrin.bsky.social Full Prof at James Madison University & Director of Intelligence Analysis program. Former CIA analyst. Editor of journal Intelligence & National Security https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
David P. Oakley @dpoakley.bsky.social Academic Director at the University of South Florida's Global and National Security Institute.
Mindy Haas @mindyhaas.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SPIA, Univ. of Pitt. Studying covert action, US FP, int'l security & int'l law. PhD from Princeton Politics, JD from Penn Law. Mom to Amelia & kitty cat crew. She/her.
Dr Robert T. Foley @robertfoley.bsky.social Reader in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Sometime writer on warfare and strategic thought, particularly Germany in the First World War. Occasional runner of longish distances. Views my own.
Sophie Duroy @sophieduroy.bsky.social Lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social | Formerly @kfgintlaw.bsky.social & @eui-law.bsky.social
Public International Law - Intelligence & Security - Human Rights - Feminism.
Book: http://shorturl.at/itU19
Clément Renault @clementrenault.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social Associate Prof/SL in Intelligence Studies @warstudies @kcl.ac.uk www.KCSI.uk
Interests: #ColdWar #intelligence #covertops, #terrorism, USSR/Russia, CEE, #MiddleEast
Author of 📙 #WatchingTheJackals
👉 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watching-the-Jackals
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Jyrki Isokangas @jyrkiisokangas.bsky.social Colonel (ret.), M.Sc (cyber security). University Teacher (intelligence and intelligence analysis), University of Jyväskylä.
Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD @technopolitics.bsky.social Assist Prof #IntelligenceStudies #NatSec #TechnoPolitics @paedutr •POLS & TV/Media @BiLGiOfficial •Author of #IntelligenceAnalysis : Reproduction of Information
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Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Adam D.M. Svendsen @intstrategist.bsky.social (Prof./Dr.) // An international intelligence + defence strategist, researcher, educator (Oslo | Georgetown | Salamanca), analyst, adviser + consultant - learn more via: http://www.intstrategist.com
Fraser McGowan @drmcgowan.bsky.social Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅
Hedvig Ördén @hedvigorden.bsky.social Assistant Professor, International and Regional Politics, Department of Political Science and Public Management.
Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies.
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Ronan Mainprize @ronanmainprize.bsky.social Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication
Research on intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
Conor Tobin @drconortobin.bsky.social Historian/lecturer at UCD and Maynooth University. Previously IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Book project on Carter, Brzezinski, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/44/2/237/56992
jjoerlemans @jjoerlemans.com Universitair docent Strafrecht | Universiteit Leiden | Cybercrime | Cybersecurity | Digitale onderzoeken
https://jjoerlemans.com/
Jonathan Guiffard @joeguiffard.bsky.social 🇨🇵 in 🇬🇧
Researching strategic competition on
1. 🇺🇸 Cyber & SIGINT
2. 🌾W-African rivalries
🔬PhD in Geopolitics @ GEODE (IFG/Paris 8 Uni.)
🪔 Teaching @ Sciences Po Paris (intel&cyber)
🏖 Fmr 🇨🇵 gov
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Peter Schrijver @psguu.bsky.social PhD student Faculty Military Sciences Breda | Leiden University | interests: influence, intelligence, drones | BA History Utrecht, MA Military Strategic Studies Breda
Latest article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2026.2669810
David Strachan-Morris @drdavidsm.bsky.social Lecturer in Intelligence and Security. Links to recent work on Combat Intelligence at https://shorturl.at/pBDjL and warning intelligence at https://shorturl.at/waeL2
Keen rugby fan and supporter of Ulster Rugby and Ireland.
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