Maintenance in progress

four states rebuilt intelligence architecture in the same week: japan launched a national intelligence bureau, its first centralized intelligence body since the second world war; sweden created a new foreign intelligence service after concluding it had tracked russian hardware well but misread russian intent before 2022; ukraine put a close presidential ally over its foreign intelligence service; south korea restructured military counterintelligence. simultaneous structural reorganization of secret services across unrelated capitals is unusual — these bodies normally change over years, not days.

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