Press Room

November 16, 2009
IntelNews celebrates one year online. Read the brief note by Ian Allen on the one-year anniversary of our effort.

September 28, 2009
Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis’ work for intelNews and his academic teaching are featured in an article by Laura J. Mondul, published today in The Bristol Herald Courier.

September 24, 2009
Ian Allen’s article about the ongoing dismantlement in Lebanon of what is probably Israel’s largest spy ring in the Arab world, published on intelNews on September 23, has made Wired.com’s list of Hottest Web Links.

August 24, 2009
Today intelNews marks its 500th post. We officially began our effort on January 1, 2009, which means we have posted on average around three posts per weekday.

July 1, 2009
Today intelNews marks six months of operation.During this period we have seen our visitor count grow to nearly 1000 hits per weekday. We appreciate the continuous support we receive from intelligence experts and lay readers alike.

June 30, 2009
We have succumbed to popular pressure. As of today, you can follow intelNews on . Incidentally, you can also share or bookmark intelNews articles, you can subscribe to read intelNews in one of the popular readers out there, you can get intelNews articles on your email, and you can even place our headlines on your website. So there.

May 21, 2009
Investigative journalist Joseph Huff-Hanon has quoted Joseph Fitsanakis in an in-depth report, published in AlterNet, about the ongoing wiretap scandal in Colombia, that has brought about a major purge in the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the DAS.

April 22, 2009
Information technology website Computer Weekly has linked Ian Allen’s report on alleged espionage against Greenpece by French Energy Giant Électricité de France (ÉDF), in a news story about the affair.

March 30, 2009
An intelNews report by Ian Allen, about suspected assassination operations by Russian intelligence agents in Turkey, has been referenced by Adrian Blomfield, foreign correspondent of British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in an article about the recent assassination of former Chechen rebel commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

March 11, 2009
Ian Allen’s article about allegations of CIA covert activities in Bolivia, published on intelNews on March 11, has made Wired.com’s list of Hottest Web Links.

March 10, 2009
Joseph Fitsanakis is quoted in an article by Wave magazine on international espionage in Brussels, Belgium, targeting the headquarters of the European Union.

February 12, 2009
An intelNews article by Joseph Fitsanakis, on the practice of extraordinary rendition under new CIA Director Leon Panetta, has been linked to by The Huffington Post, in a story about Mr. Panetta’s Senate confirmation.

February 12, 2009
An intelNews article by Ian Allen was referenced by Agencia EFE, the Spanish News Agency, in a story about increasing espionage activity at the European Union headquarters in Brussels.

February 11, 2009
An intelNews article by Ian Allen was referenced by French newspaper Libération in a story about increasing espionage activity at the European Union headquarters in Brussels.

January 24, 2009
IntelNews is selected by WordPress as the 64th fastest-growing blog in the WordPress universe. We appreciate this opportunity to raise awareness in the blogosphere of all things intelligence.

January 24, 2009
Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis’ opinion piece “Is CIA Director Nominee a Hypocrite?” makes it to #39 of the WordPress Top Posts list for January 24, 2009.

January 1, 2009
IntelNews goes officially on the air. A mission statement is published, outlining the project’s aim of “filtering through the melodrama and sensationalism of the daily news to bring to the surface intelligence-related developments that rarely make news headlines”.

November 16, 2008
Intelligence experts Joseph Fitsanakis and Ian Allen unofficially launch intelNews as an online news and commentary blog specializing on intelligence and espionage-related news and developments from around the world. The website is located under its own domain (www.intelNews.org) using the WordPress interface.