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Upcoming Events

Elisabeth Braw on the Stasi’s Cold War Espionage Campaign inside the Church
East Germany only existed for a short forty years but in that time the Stasi developed a highly successful ‘church department’,... read more
Recent Events
- Breakfast Briefing - How People Radicalise: The Anatomy of Violent Extremism
- “Changing Times, Changing Treason?" A Lecture by the New Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation
- A Conversation with the US Secretary of Defense
- Project Sandstone: On the Trail of the Tae Yang - AIS Spoofing and North Korean Coal Smuggling
- HM Government Economic Crime Plan Publication











Episode 1: The Suspicious Transaction Report
An Ambassador for Countering Hybrid Threats
Trailer: The Suspicious Transaction Report