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
"A Ukrainian official claimed that during the talks, Witkoff and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut off Ukraine from U.S. intelligence if it continued to ignore his requests". www.axios.com/2026/10/10/t...
U.S. official: Trump cut deal with Putin after Zelensky ignored his requests
Zelensky "misread the room," the official said.
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"The bronze sculpture, designed by Norwegian artist Håkon Anton Fagerås at his studio in Italy, depicts two figures carrying out surveillance and serves as a memorial to the intelligence cooperation between Norway and Britain during World War II". www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...
Princess Anne Travels Back to Norway to Unveil a Memorial Statue in Oslo
The Princess Royal is on a three-day official visit to the country.
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"Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, has been charged with offences under the National Security Act (NSA) including an allegation of obtaining protected information which could benefit an unnamed foreign power". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Royal Navy service member charged with spying
The 24-year-old man is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday after being arrested at his home in Bedfordshire.
bbc.co.uk
Dr. Dan Lomas@sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 5d ago"Hanning has worked as a consultant in security and business areas worldwide. He also had connections to Russia and China. Also to government agencies there and via a short distance to the Kremlin. Hanning also maintained the best contacts with Israel". m.bild.de/politik/spio...
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g...
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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CIA officer arrested with gold bars admits he exposed secret intelligence source to a foreign official www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
CIA officer arrested with gold bars admits he exposed secret intelligence source to a foreign official
David Rush, who was fired by the spy agency, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and will be sentenced Jan. 28.
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"Hanning was, as was well known, in considerable financial difficulties: his pension had been seized for years. The reason: his work as a supervisory board member for a bank in the Baltic States. This is said to have been gutted by an oligarch and led into bankruptcy". Motivations clearer ...
Dr. Dan Lomas@sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 5d ago"Hanning has worked as a consultant in security and business areas worldwide. He also had connections to Russia and China. Also to government agencies there and via a short distance to the Kremlin. Hanning also maintained the best contacts with Israel". m.bild.de/politik/spio...
"Hanning has worked as a consultant in security and business areas worldwide. He also had connections to Russia and China. Also to government agencies there and via a short distance to the Kremlin. Hanning also maintained the best contacts with Israel". m.bild.de/politik/spio...
August Hanning festgenommen: Ex-BND-Chef unter Spionageverdacht
Nach BILD-Informationen wurde Ex-BND-Chef August Hanning festgenommen. Der Generalbundesanwalt ermittelt wegen des Verdachts auf Landesverrat und Spionage.
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"He is accused of receiving sensitive data from the BND after he left the agency, which was supplied by accomplice Manfred D in return for payments. Both Mr Hanning and Manfred were arrested in separate raids on Tuesday morning". www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3b94dee...
Germany’s former spy chief arrested for treason
August Hanning is accused of receiving sensitive data from the intelligence service after his departure
telegraph.co.uk
Call me old fashioned, but I always believed academics should be professional - erm, and not use it as a lifestyle choice. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
varsity.co.uk
Really pleased to contribute to this article in The Times, basically countering the view that intelligence ties are threatened. I'm less alarmist 😉 www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
Israel could cut intelligence ties with UK, ex-CIA chief warns
Ralph Goff says MI6 would suffer more than Mossad if the diplomatic rift deepens because Israel holds superior cyber capabilities against Iran
thetimes.com
BBC News - UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over RAF Fairford incident
The 27-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, marking the sixth arrest in connection with Sunday's incident near the airbase.
bbc.co.uk
Ahh, Cambridge. Keeping up with tradition by working for both sides 😉
Dr. Dan Lomas@sandbaggerone.bsky.social · last wk.Cambridge University was among the institutions whose staff received funding from a Chinese research body MI5 today issued a rare espionage warning about, The Times can reveal. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
Cambridge University was among the institutions whose staff received funding from a Chinese research body MI5 today issued a rare espionage warning about, The Times can reveal. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
British university research funded by Chinese spies, warns MI5
Vice-chancellors have been told to sever links with a Beijing institute accused of covertly strengthening state intelligence capabilities
thetimes.com
Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/j...
Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
A CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative.
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"The alert advises UK academic institutions to immediately review any ongoing or planned collaboration with CGTRI and advises academics to establish the ultimate funding source when conducting any research collaboration with Chinese institutions". www.mi5.gov.uk/mi5-issues-e...
MI5 issues Espionage Alert - CGTRI 中国通用技术研究院 | MI5 - The Security Service
MI5 has issued a Security Service Espionage Alert stating that the primary purpose of the CGTRI 中国通用技术研究院 is to fund research that directly improves Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) technical ...
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"How would you feel if you grassed yourself up?"
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w agoSuspect in RAF Fairford incident called police before arrest
MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research
Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service
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🎙️TODAY: Listen to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' intelligence expert Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on @bbc5live.bsky.social talking to Adrian Chiles about the past, present and future of spies. ⏰ Tune in from 12pm ⬇️
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European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato
Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops
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"This is my call to arms after 25 years: government, business, academia, and the public must treat national security not as the specialist concern of a handful of agencies, but as a shared national endeavour". www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
The MI5 chief is right: we must all take threats to our security more seriously
Editorial: Sir Ken McCallum, in an exclusive article for The Independent to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, issues a call to arms that must be heeded
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‘It was all hands on deck’: how the CIA responded to 9/11 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘It was all hands on deck’: how the CIA responded to 9/11
Veterans recall chaos and confusion as the attacks unfolded – followed by a ‘war on terror’ that left agency with a tarnished reputation
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Two arrested in London on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service news.sky.com/story/two-ar...
Two arrested in London on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service
A woman, 42, and a man, 60, and were arrested by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing London.
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👀 New article in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence looking at MI6/SIS and the 2004 Butler Report on intelligence and Iraqi WMD. ✍️ MI6 and the Butler Report: Fallout, Reform and Legacy. 50 free downloads ⏬️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KRW7P...
Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Butler Report: Fallout, Reform and Legacy
The Butler report had significant implications for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known as MI6). Though much has been said about the report’s findings and the follow-up work of the...
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📚 Out this month in paperback with @edinburghup.bsky.social A study of the UK intelligence community through the declassified reviews that shaped MI5, GCHQ, SIS/MI6, with introductory essays by myself and Dr Chris Murphy ⏬️ 🔗 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intelli...
"Joshua Cammidge, from Swindon, allegedly received instructions from an individual believed to be linked to the GRU Volunteer Corps, a group controlled by Russia's military intelligence agency". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Swindonan charged with assisting Russian intelligence services
Joshua Cammidge will appear in court on Thursday accused of two offences under the National Security Act.
bbc.co.uk
BBC News - Spanish intelligence warned of Ceuta mass crossing plans before surge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish intelligence warned of Ceuta mass crossing plans before surge
Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day before tens of thousands entered Ceuta.
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