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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com

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The Insider @theins.press · 08/03/2026
“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear @michaeldweiss.bsky.social talks to a CIA whistleblower who says the spy agency set out to prove Anomalous Health Incidents weren’t real or caused by a foreign adversary. Neither is true, he says.
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“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear
In 2024, The Insider and its investigative partners at 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel uncovered evidence showing that “Anomalous Health Incidents,” also known as Havana Syndrome, were likely the result of...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
U.S. war with Iran looms. I spoke to @alexplitsas.bsky.social about the military options the U.S. has in place for an attack on Iran, and what Iran is likely to do in retaliation, from missiles to militias: t.co/lEPZL1ZuJ9
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
New: I wrote a long critical essay about Marco Rubio -- the moral compromises he's made and the intellectual hypocrisies he hourly indulges to serve Donald Trump. macspaunday.substack.com/p/marco-solo...
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Marco Solo
Trump’s Secretary of State adopts positions he never believed, to advance the ones he does. Is it worth it?
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New: We translated 1988 KGB training manual on how to psychologically profile agents for recruitment cultivation using their biographies, physical appearances and handwriting. Pliable middle children, cheerful fatties, and why the KGB loves a midlife crisis: t.co/cwKTQotsGI
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Went on @thebulwark.com's Shield of the Republic podcast to discuss Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and AHI. Much of the discussion focused on why Europe and Ukraine have a difficult time accepting that the US won't always be on side. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Michael Weiss joins The Trump Report with Fergus Macphee to discuss anomalous health incidents (AHIs), better known as Havana Syndrome.: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Havana Syndrome: US Govt Bought Mystery Weapon Linked to Symptoms
Michael Weiss on Havana Syndrome and recent CNN report.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New: We published another translated KGB training manual, this one about Moscow's use of 'compatriots' abroad. A highly relevant topic. Expertly introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle. You can subscribe to Foreign Office here: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-co...
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Inside Moscow's Compatriots Policy
How the KGB instrumentalized the Soviet diaspora for intelligence work
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Maduro Op
Cuban intelligence runs Venezuela's security apparatus. Where was it when the U.S. snatched the Venezuelan strongman?
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What to make of the Mar-a-Lago meeting: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Gipper’s Gravespin @gippersgravespin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social Excellent interview with Michael Weiss regarding #Ukraine & Trump‘s dodgy negotiations with the Kremlin… youtu.be/QX1T0nmb6bU?...
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Russia: Trump has ‘promised us Ukrainian territory’ | Ukraine: The Latest
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I chatted with the great Maddie Hale at Times Radio on the latest in U.S.-Ukraine talks, Europe's responsibility, and how Zelensky is performing a bit of tactical jujitsu on Trump's (and Putin's) demands of him. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
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Michael Weiss on X: "Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6" / X
Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control." spiegel.de/politik/ausl...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Twitter in the past 48 hours has been like watching a remedial version of SPECTRE convene a meeting in real time.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New at @spiegel.de: We obtained the transcript of a conference call of top European leaders and Zelensky, warning of American dirty tricks to the end war. "We mustn't leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys." spiegel.de/politik/ukra... Eng. derspiegel.substack.com/p/we-must-no...
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(S+) Wie sehr der Kanzler und Macron den USA bei den Ukraine-Verhandlungen misstrauen
Hören Trumps Unterhändler vor allem auf Russland? Dem SPIEGEL liegt die Mitschrift einer Krisenschalte vor, die zeigt, wie tief das Misstrauen bei den Europäern sitzt – auch bei Kanzler Merz und Präsi...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Big story dropping tomorrow.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"The European Union will add three GRU officers from Russia’s military unit 29155 to its sanctions lists...The officers, all of whom specialize in cyber operations...were featured in The Insider’s investigation Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad." t.co/8vdZPrjzem
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I talked to former Lithuanian Foreign Minister @glandsbergis.bsky.social about the future of Europe without the United States, and what Europe should do to prepare for that contingency: t.co/srZWfxn7MJ
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
On Tom Stoppard: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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On Tom Stoppard
The great playwright was great in another respect most artists aren't.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Stoppard’s plays stuck with you long after you left the theatre, to the extent that you ended up stacking your shelves with all the source material. He made A.E. Housman interesting. www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/14/t...
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The Poet of Social Distancing - The American Interest
Why the work of A.E. Housman resonates in a time of enforced isolation.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you, you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Next week we will publish a newly translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets worked up psych profiles for recruiting prospective agents. Another piece of relevant Cold War history… open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live: snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
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IO Leo Fella (callsign "Leo") @ioleo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🍊👑♥️🇷🇺 Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Polish cartoon “The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.” “And from the American side?”
Polish cartoon depicting a press conference

The spox, US flag at the side, says in Polish:

“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”

A reporter rises the hand and ask:

“And from the American side?”
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Dominic Holland @dominicholland.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
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Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Stay tuned for the @theins.press story, in collaboration with @spiegel.de, about how we knew Kirill Dmitriev was the architect of this “peace plan.” Drops tomorrow at 5am EST.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/11/2025
"Outer borough boys stick together... 'you're a fascist, you're a communist'... that's about at 1 a.m. at the bar, you say that," @michaeldweiss.bsky.social says of the lovefest between Trump and Mamdani. "By 3 a.m. you got arms around each other, you're like smoking a J on Queens Boulevard."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/11/2025
A dead pedophile, a Kremlin bagman, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and the future of NATO. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the chaotic “peace plan” for Ukraine and what it says about Trump’s collapsing grip on power.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
With the U.S. continuing to advance Russian interests over Ukraine’s, join @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and me on Thinking Live today, Nov. 24, at 2:00pm ET, as we break down what’s really happening. snyder.substack.com
Graphic card reading: Thinking Live with Michael Weiss, "U.S. Promotion of Russian interests in Ukraine," 11/24 at 2:00 p.m. ET. snyder.substack.com. The card includes photos of Michael Weiss and Timothy Snyder
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tomorrow at 2pm EST I’ll be joining @timothysnyder.bsky.social on his Substack Live to discuss Ukraine, focusing on what we believe Americans need to know. Do join.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
On MS NOW tomorrow at 10am EST with Ana Cabrera to talk Ukraine.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
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The Insider @theins.press · 21/11/2025
“He must have got this from K.”: How a Russian operative used the American media to bring a risible “peace deal” into existence The 28-point plan looks like a Russian information op, not a serious diplomatic effort, Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social argues.
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“He must have got this from K.”: How a Russian operative used the American media to bring a risible “peace deal” into existence
Rhetoric around Russia’s war in Ukraine has once again shifted to discussions about a potential “diplomatic solution.” However, the “deal” on the table — a 28-point plan that contains many of Moscow’s...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“Zorin loses track of his lies … and the lies of his government, because he’s indifferent to both in pursuit of his own delusions of grandeur.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social covers the fictionalized career of Russian spy-diplomat Gen. Alexander Zorin.
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The Accidental Revelations of a Russian Spy’s Memoir
Alexander Zorin’s desire to make himself larger than life inadvertently exposes Moscow’s lies about how the war in Syria was waged
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We know the familiar pattern: “Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.” More essential reading from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions
Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions
Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My friend @michaeldweiss.bsky.social weighs in on the recent New York City mayoral election and...whew open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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On New York Exceptionalism
Zohran Mamdani’s election has been turned into a broader comment on American politics. But it’s as local as it gets.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Everyone loves or hates New York now. No thanks, says this New Yorker: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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On New York Exceptionalism
Zohran Mamdani’s election has been turned into a broader comment on American politics. But it’s as local as it gets.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New on Foreign Office, I talked to two of my favorite missile junkies, Fabian Hoffmann and Colby Badhwar, about Tomahawks, Flamingos, Ukraine's deep strike needs, Alabuga, and "A House of Dynamite": open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New: Meet the Unit 29155 operative who became such a well-known international judo champ in his cover life, the GRU decided to erase his real identity: theins.ru/en/inv/286477
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A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military Intelligence, the GRU, has dramatically stepped up its activities across Europe — from assassinations and acts of sabotage...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A new GRU investigation dropping tomorrow. And later this week: a translated KGB trainining manual about infiltrating U.S. institutions. Oh, and cruise missile talk with two special guests. Subscribe to and follow Foreign Office: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New: I acquired the private memoir of Gen. Alexander Zorin, a senior GRU officer who was Putin's envoy to Syria and is now leading POW exchanges with Ukraine. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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The Accidental Revelations of a Russian Spy’s Memoir
Alexander Zorin’s desire to make himself larger than life inadvertently exposes Moscow’s lies about how the war in Syria was waged
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