Tag Archives: Intelligence

1980s-90s: Soviet/Russian Intelligence Internal Rivalries and the Russian State

Posted on 10/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

From Russian writer Oleg Grechenevsky rejected-in-Russia and now online book “Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles.  Grechenevsky contacted me about his online book last year and I translated a portion of his very long work as “A Russian … Continue reading →

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2006: How the Intelligence Services Took Over in Russia

Posted on 05/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Returning to Oleg Grechenevsky’s mammoth online book The Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime [original title ИСТОКИ НАШЕГО “ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКОГО” РЕЖИМА] on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles. on the political evolution of the late Soviet Union and the early Russian Federation, here in part … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC National Security Day — Beware Intelligence Agency Pitches While Abroad

Posted on 04/28/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

April 15 is tax day in the USA but in China it is the annual National Security Education Day. That day PRC media publicizes some recent successes in PRC counter-intelligence work as examples and warnings to others. See also: While … Continue reading →

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2021: Q&A May PRC Min State Security Employees Marry? Do they have Secret Identities?

Posted on 04/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This 2021 article on the PRC news portal Sougou below confirms that PRC intelligence agencies have the authority under Chinese law to compel PRC citizens to cooperate with them in their intelligence work. That requirement is in the PRC intelligence … Continue reading →

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2019: Russian View ‘Why Nobody Can Cope with Chinese Intelligence’

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

‘Why Nobody Can Cope with Chinese Intelligence’ Почему с китайской разведкой не может справиться весь мир by Valery Ponomarev [I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I … Continue reading →

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2010: From a Russian Perspective: History of PRC intelligence

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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2020: Russian Press — Traitors to the Motherland

Posted on 02/19/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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2022: Accused Japan-China Friendship “Spy” Hideji Suzuki Talks About His Torture and Imprisonment in China

Posted on 02/15/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Mainichi Shimbun in October – November 2022 published a four part series on the detention, torture and six year imprisonment of Hideji Suzuki who returned on Japan after completing his sentence in October 2023. Below are links to the Mainichi … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Balloon Blacklist; Aerospace Experts, ChatGPT Comment

Posted on 02/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Also in this series: See also: The Conversation: Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see Contents: US just announced blacklist of some Chinese companies that manufacture components of the … Continue reading →

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2020: Deteriorating Sino-Soviet Relations and Chinese Intelligence

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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