Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social Mil-Poster, Black 'n Arab, Unapologetic NATO Shill, Progressive. Proud Canadian; Patch Guy 🇦🇬🇱🇧
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social Retired #Marine, scribbler, #wargame analyst, podcast co-host, geek. Author of “A New Conception of War” on #USMC reading list. All views my own.
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.
Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Tony Comer @tonycomer.bsky.social Former Departmental Historian at GCHQ.
Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social Former counterterrorism intelligence analyst now working as an intelligence educator. I have a tendency to end up in documentaries.
Also single childless woman dog lady who people say achieved something meaningful.
Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social International Relations Afficionado | Aspiring Novelist | Book & Movie Lover | Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@alanthecommentariat
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/ 
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 🌅
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
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.
Jeff Rogg @jrogg.bsky.social Historian, academic, fisherman. “Better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.” —Georges Danton
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
Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️
https://linktr.ee/yusufozkan
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.- G Gill Bennett @gillhistory.bsky.social Intelligence historian, music-lover
DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social Historian of US Army in The First World War. Interested in intelligence and learning development. Available for book reviews. Social media manager at the Strategy Bridge. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧
Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book #1 : "Weapons in Space" | Book #2 "Wiring an Empire" (contracted w/ MIT Press)
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
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
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’.
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and the Arctic | 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
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own
Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social Public Policy scholar; Assistant Professor, @UTEP Intelligence & National Security Studies (INSS); @ClementsCenter alum; @SocIntelHist; IC veteran.
Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
Hedvig Ördén @hedvigorden.bsky.social Assistant Professor, International and Regional Politics, Department of Political Science and Public Management.
Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies.
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
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
Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Melbourne. Formerly of other places. Research: war, intelligence, innovation, and normative change in international politics. Cat paparazzo. He/Him 🇨🇦🏳️🌈✡️
Electrospaces.net @electrospaces.bsky.social Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications. Also tweeting in Dutch and sometimes in German.
SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social Founding editor, SpyTalk.co. Longtime DC-based natsec journalist. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, CQ/Homeland Security, books, magazine freelance
Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...
Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/
Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Dr Steven Wagner @stevenbwagner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University
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
Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. Does Interpretivist Research on Foreign Policy Analysis. Currently working on Political Myth in diplomacy and foreign policy.
thomaseason.co.uk
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
Alexa O’Brien @alexaobrien.bsky.social Analyst & writer focused on intelligence and espionage.
alexaobrien.com/about
Christopher Burgess @burgessct.bsky.social 30+yrs w/CIA🕵️♂️ | ✍️ Burgess Writing: NatSec/Espionage/Insider/Cyber and more | Co-Author Book 📕 Secrets Stolen Fortunes Lost
https://www.burgessct.com/about/bio-christopher/
Bill Robinson @billrobinson.bsky.social Researcher focused on Canadian SIGINT activities past and present. Also FVEY and other countries. Citizen Lab Research Fellow. Occasionally compared to a hedgehog. He/him.
Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
Dan Stanton @danstanton.bsky.social A writer and recovering spy.
Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social “How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social Not Laconic
Marcus Faulkner @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War, knows about War Studies and has an amateur understanding of Space. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social waking up everyday in a full sprint. cyber(punk) & counterintelligence. bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy. i see kanly today in everything.
#FUZZYSNUGGLYDUCK
opinions are my own.
Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Dr. Claudia Hillebrand @ckhillebrand.bsky.social 👋 I mainly share posts about contemporary intelligence 🕵🏼♀️🕵️♂️, state secrecy 🤫, politics 🌍, and cats 🐈⬛ 🐈.
Paul Chichester CMG MBE @0xchich.bsky.social Director Operations, NCSC, GCHQ. 30+ years in Government Cyber Operations. Views entirely my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my organisation. 🏴 🇺🇦
Leah West @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social SJD. Associate Prof at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Sr Fellow @CIGI. Ex Armoured Officer & DOJ Nat Sec lawyer. Write about the law of spies, robots and terrorism. Sanctioned by Russia.
Jason Hines @missmykhakis.bsky.social Naval historian, Dr.phil. @unipotsdam, retired naval officer
Douglas Selvage @deselv.bsky.social Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
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.
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Damien Van Puyvelde @dvanp.bsky.social Associate Professor | Head of Intelligence & Security Research Group @unileiden.bsky.social
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.
Tony Craig @tonycraig.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Sara C @sarabcastro.bsky.social Historian and strategic thinker focused on China, global security, intel studies; all views my own -- personal account
Justin Pyke @justinpykehistory.bsky.social MA in History. Studies intelligence, sea power, air power, and the Asia-Pacific War. Researching U.S. intelligence assessments of Japanese air and sea power, 1919-1941. Andor appreciator, PC gamer, mediocre miniature painter, and musician.
Raphael Ramos @raphaelramos.bsky.social 🎓 History PhD
✒️ Writes and teaches -- history, intelligence, and foreign policy
📚 Author, *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* (Editions du Cerf, 2025), *Une chimère américaine* (PULM, 2018)
Alex Bollfrass @bollfrass.bsky.social Nuclear weapons and intelligence history.
David Abrutat @trooperabs.bsky.social Intelligence services and military historian
Rob Joyce @rgblights.bsky.social Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
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.
Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.
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.
Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
IntelArchive @intelarchive.io Sharing publications, events, conferences, and calls for papers from the most comprensive database on intelligence studies, IntelArchive: Intelligence Studies Database (https://intelarchive.io/).
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@Natvogel @natvogel.bsky.social Research Fellow Center for Intermarium Studies Washington D.C. 🏛 Intelligence studies, statecraft, national security https://www.iwp.edu/faculty/nathalie-vogel
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 
Lucia Frigo @luciafrigo.bsky.social Researching intelligence and security.
Currently working on post-Brexit EU security and EU-UK cooperation.
PhD @rhulpir, law and security studies here and there 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇨🇦
Elena Grossfeld @kloosha.bsky.social PhD Researcher
War Studies, Kings College London
Russia | Intelligence | Strategic Culture | Cold War
views own
Dov H. Levin @dovlevin.bsky.social Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only- J Jock ‘Anonymous Low Level Loser’ Bruce @jockbruce.bsky.social Retired futteret trainer. Sometime civil servant. Fossicker in archives.
Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com
alexzfinley.substack.com
Shannon Vavra @shanvav.bsky.social National Security & Cybersecurity | Priors: @cnas.bsky.social Fellow, National Security Reporter @thedailybeast.bsky.social, @cyberscoop.bsky.social, @axios.com | Probably in need of covfefe and a snack | shanvav01 on Signal
Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social Space policy wonk, former engineer, husband, father, Dungeon Master, and all around geek. I post things I find insightful, informative, or provocative
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social FBI Assistant Director (retired); 25 year veteran Special Agent; Author, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers; and, The FBI Way; Democracy defender.
Jonas Mueller-Töwe @jmuellertoewe.bsky.social Senior Investigative Editor @t-online.de, Berlin / Reporting on Foreign influence operations, National security, Lobbying and Crime (Threema: 4E6EXA2Y)
David E. Hoffman @davidehoffman.bsky.social davidehoffman.com — The Oligarchs, The Dead Hand, The Billion Dollar Spy, and Give Me Liberty. Washington Post 2023 editorial series “Annals of Autocracy”: https://wapo.st/3K8LVNd
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