Christos military and intelligence corner

The plot thickens… NSA and GCHQ might have been able to spy on people by impersonating Google. According to motherjones they used a...

During WWII both the Allies and the Axis were able to capture equipment used by the other side. This equipment (tanks, planes, artillery, ri...

The compromise of the State Department’s strip cipher by Axis codebreakers in WWII was one of the worst failures of Allied crypto security....

The Guardian has published more information on the NSA global surveillance program. This time it’s about NSA’s ability to intercept and d...

So far i’ve covered many interesting cases of WWII signals intelligence and codebreaking but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some myst...

Added a file from TICOM D-69 ‘Correspondence between OKW/CHI and intercept stations’ in US military attaché codes of WWII .

The Washington post has a nice article on the US secret intelligence budget . I found it strange that humint gets more money than sigint. ...

I added information from FMS P-038 ‘German Radio Intelligence’ and ADM 223/505 ‘Cypher security and W/T (Wireless Telegraphy) deception’ in...