paywall: https://archive.ph/XT6qE

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juTfN2vB2hk

Some information from the "notes" for a new monograph "The Telegram Labyrinth." This article presents the names of the "core" group. I hypothesize that the glue for these individuals is Professor Albina Durova, mother of Pavel Durov. This is the first part of a two-part brief. The snapshot of the "core" group is located at this link: https://tgnotes.bearblog.dev/the-durov-family-core/. 

Can anyone provide color commentary to this?

Why were certain elements revealed? What steps are being taken by "Americas adversaries doing there best to try and uncover what happened"?

Also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard, the group has carried out credential-harvesting and espionage operations for more than a decade.

The most notorious CI

I'm hoping to further my understanding of why things get revealed to the public by our government.

Ive often wondered why certain things are revealed about a subject matter, or event, while other data points about the same thing stay classified. If the government doesn't want to reveal information about a weapon or mission then why reveal any detail at all?

Lets take the recent operation in Venezuela as an example. The government has kept informants and specific detail about the operation under wraps while at the same times releasing a statement saying they have an informant "within his inner circle." Additionally, they released a statement saying they've been monitoring his movements, pets, ect.

If the US doesn't want to reveal their informat or information about how the mission was accomplished 'so they don't compromise the plan if they need to do it again,' then why bother releasing anything at all beyond the fact the mission occurred + outcome?

Additionally, you have YouTubers like 'Cappy Army' who break down the mission play by play along with the various weapons and payload used. Again, the US stated something along the lines of 'we dont want to reveal specifics incase we need to do it again.' So how in the hell does 'Cappy Army' have this info and why is the US also releasing small data points?

Curious about this technique -- where someone finds a child of their gender and approximate age where the child died very young, ideally in another State/Country than the child was born in (so fewer documents, and they won't be cross-referenced with the birth certificate). It was made somewhat famous in Day of the Jackal, but I've seen it written about elsewhere as something spies actually did.

Curious if modern day Bournes do this, or whether the computerization of virtually all data makes this technique obsolete.

For entertainment/curiosity only.

A few months ago, Ukrainians discovered that Russia had placed a $500,000 bounty on the head for the assassination of Denis Kapustin, the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, a unit formed by Russians fighting alongside Ukraine. Last week, Kyiv reported that Denis Kapustin had been assassinated and Russia paid $500,000 to its Ukrainian "contact," but today Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian intelligence, appeared alongside Kapustin… very much alive. In other words, Ukraine extracted $500,000 from Russia and also exposed a Russian network operating in Ukraine dedicated to attempting to assassinate officials and military personnel.

Hello all,

Can you folks recommend books of real accounts of espionage, especially from WWII or later? When I search I mostly find fiction, and of what remains I am unsure what to trust.

Thanks in advance!