About Joseph and Ian
JOSEPH FITSANAKIS, BSocSc, MSc, PhD, is Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies in the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University. Prior to joining Coastal, he built the Security and Intelligence Studies program at King University, where he also directed the King Institute for Security and Intelligence Studies. An award-winning professor, Dr. Fitsanakis has lectured, taught and written extensively on subjects such as international espionage, intelligence tradecraft, wiretapping, cyberespionage, and transnational crime. He is a syndicated columnist and frequent contributor to news media such as BBC television, CBC television, ABC radio, and NPR, and his work has been referenced in outlets including The Washington Post, Newsweek, Forbes, Foreign Policy, Politico, Vice News, and The Huffington Post. He can be contacted via email at joe [at] intelnews.org, or by calling 423-742-1627 in the United States.
IAN ALLEN, MEng, MSE, retired from the intelligence profession in the 2000s, after more than 25 years of service. He is currently active in private security consulting. His professional expertise is in the highly technical field of telecommunications security, communications interception countermeasures and related support services. Ian spent much of his professional career working in a variety of locations in North and South America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. His post-retirement work has been referenced in specialized outlets including The Cipher Brief, Wired, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Military Review, and in news media such as Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, International Business Times, Metro News, Libération, La Razón and others. Ian edits intelNews‘ popular “News You May Have Missed” feature and writes the occasional opinion piece. He can be contacted via email at ian [at] intelnews.org.
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I saw your page by chance, i read mostly all the stories and all of them are so logical and intresting, your way of wrinting the story is so profesional and i liked this so much, wish you the best
yeah, i also read dear Joseph’s one article about “Nazi glorification in Latvia” – one can hear those ‘ so logical and interesting’ claims every day from Russian migrants who are waving Russia’s flags and walking arond with Czar’s honor signs :))) I mean. it shows clearly enough democratic credentials and mentality of those posers-“liberators” :)
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Congratulations!
Big thumbs up for supplying credentials.
Now we can examine our sources in a little more depth. Triangulate for bias. So on.
Little suggestion? Put your names in rugged typewriter font, white on dark background; at the moment the elaborate script at the top of the sidebar is hard to spot, at first.
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Sorry to have missed the posting of JF’s credentials. Exactly how did he gain his “expertise” in these matters and what qualifies him to teach this stuff?
I don’t generally respond to anonymous queries, but I thank you for yours nonetheless. Generally, instructors in higher education acquire their academic expertise by successfully completing an accredited Ph.D., a commonly used abbreviation that denotes the conclusion of a specialized research project lasting anywhere from three to six years. The Ph.D. is then coupled with continuing scholarly research, a strong publication record, and specialized teaching that both reflects and sustains the instructor’s academic expertise. My own academic credentials are listed here. [JF]
Well written response to anonymous :-)
What’s up with this Nazi Latvija stuff? Are the Latvian Russians Nazis or are the Latvians themselves Nazis? Anyway, the relationship of the Baltic peoples to German and Russian invasions is quite complex.