Calder Walton
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Sanctioned by Russia as “subversive” | Best-selling author, SPIES | @Harvard @Kennedy_School | PhD: Cambridge, former Barrister | My views
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3 weeks ago |
foreignpolicy.com | Calder Walton
U.S. Foreign Policy Science and Technology United States The Signal scandal that engulfed Washington last week constitutes a major breach of US national security.
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1 month ago |
thecipherbrief.com | Calder Walton
Posted: March 6th, 2025 OPINION — “Munich” is one of the most used historical analogies – and almost always, it is used inappropriately to justify force. For once, however, the Munich analogy is sadly relevant for present-day circumstances over the war in Ukraine. Munich is a story of appeasing a dictator in Europe set on territorial expansion. It is a tale of great powers “settling” the fate of a smaller nation in Europe without the latter’s involvement in the peace process.
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1 month ago |
thebulletin.org | Calder Walton |John Mecklin
Most people would agree that, if waste could reasonably be reduced within the US federal government, the reduction would ultimately be beneficial to US taxpayers. Unfortunately, the tactics by which Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—which has a stated aim of cutting $2 trillion of government waste—is pursuing its work are far from reasonable. In fact, those efforts create major threats to US national security.
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2 months ago |
thecipherbrief.com | Calder Walton
Posted: January 27th, 2025 OPINION — Earlier this month, a tranche of British Security Service (MI5) records was declassified on the most notorious traitors in modern British history: the five “Cambridge spies.” The records, released to the National Archives in London, contain the first ever opened MI5 dossiers on three members of the Cambridge spy network: H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
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Jun 6, 2024 |
telegraph.co.uk | Calder Walton
The CIA was created in 1947, under the presidency of Harry S Truman Credit: Bettmann It’s hardly news that after 1945, the United States of America became an empire in all but name. Speak to anyone in the “global South” today, and that view will be quickly confirmed.
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Just finished this. I think it’s one of the best books on intelligence to be published in the last several years. An excellent & sweeping history of the Russian illegals programme, based on a great deal of original reporting and interviews with former illegals & their families.
