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The Intelligence Community And Open-Source Information In The Digital Age – Analysis

On January 22, 2021, the New York Times reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was acquiring commercially available databases from vendors containing U.S. person location data generated by smartphone applications, and the DIA was periodically using that data to track U.S. person device locations (specifically, the Times reported, “Defense …

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Italy’s Ambassador To DRC Killed In Ambush

Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. The U.N. World Food Program says at least two other people were killed and several more injured in the attack Monday that killed Italian …

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Turkey Signals Sweeping Regional Ambitions – Analysis

A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from South-eastern Europe on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and Libya on its southern shore across North Africa, the Gulf …

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