Intelligence

For two decades, the Epstein affair was confined to the realm of sexual scandal. In early 2026, the massive declassification of 3 million pages from the US Department of Justice and European investigations reveal a much darker reality: Operation “Epstein” was merely the tip of the iceberg of a “state capture” and financial destabilization mechanism piloted from Moscow.

For a long time, the tradition of British intelligence could be summarized by the very existence of its services: officially, they did not exist. But over the last decade, London has undergone a radical cultural […]

Russia is waging an insidious “grey war” in the United States, using money, data, and donations to influence American politics. This strategy relies on a complex network, the “Putinosphere,” which ranges from intelligence services to agents of influence and “useful idiots.”

Laurence Saint-Gilles’s paper delves into the “Gor affair,” a political firestorm ignited by a New York Post investigation into Sergio Gor, President Trump’s powerful personnel chief. Tasked with vetting thousands of officials, Gor has suspiciously avoided submitting his own mandatory security clearance form, the SF-86. This refusal, amplified by accusations from his rival Elon Musk, has fueled speculation that Gor may be a Russian mole—a “ghost in the Trump machine.” Saint-Gilles dissects the glaring inconsistencies in Gor’s biography, from his fabricated Maltese identity and mysterious parents to his original Russian surname. The analysis scrutinizes the “agent theory” and traces Gor’s calculated political ascent through the GOP’s ultraconservative wing. Ultimately, the paper highlights the profound national security risk posed by a potentially compromised individual with access to the sensitive data of America’s top government officials.