As is common in intelligence affairs, the people who know cannot comment. But even the public coverage of recent spy swaps between Estonia and Russia provides some insight into a change of paradigm in post-Cold War “intelligence culture”.
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University of Southern Denmark and Polish Institute for National Remembrance held a conference “Need to Know VII: The Hidden Hand of Intelligence” on 9–10 November 2017 in Budapest. Dr. Juurvee from ICDS presented on Soviet “Active Measures” as we know them from the legacy of Vasily Mitrokhin.
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On 7 November European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in cooperation with Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Eastern Europe Studies Centre held a conference “Russia’s Influence in the Baltic Sea Region: National and Institutional Experiences in Countering Hybrid Threats” in Vilnius
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Parliament of the Czech Republic and Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes organized a conference dedicated to the centennial of creation Soviet security service Checka on 2-3 November in Prague.
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On 20-21 October NSA Center for Cryptologic History held its biennial Symposium on Cryptologic History
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