Mark Stout

@markstout.bsky.social

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Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.

The first few paragraphs of a magazine article entitled "Weather Reports Back on Air as Censorship Ban is Eased."
A sign on a movable shelving unit that says "RG 263; GAMBIT (KH-7); HEXAGON (KH-9); CANS 001 TO 1862."
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman Dixon.
A crowd of anti-ICE protestors.
Classification Secret/Control -- U.S. Officials Only; Security Information
A page of graph paper with shapes marked in dark lines on it and numbers handwritten in the boxes within the shapes.
Tres Secret written vertically.
A red classification marking on a document. It says "TOP SECRET - UK EYES A."
Inside the book is a small bookplate that says “H.A.R. Philby.” The same text is hand written on the facing page. It is Kim Philby the British Cold War spy for the Soviets.
Line drawing cartoon. Two men are talking and one says "It's true, Tony Lake says he didn't know anything about what was going on all around him. But what other qualifications does he have to be CIA director?"
Secret and Confidential; For Official Use Only; Not to be Taken into Front-Line Trenches
Cover 1948 publication called "Greece" by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows part of the globe with Greece highlighted in the middle. South is toward the top of the image.