Top all-time · #5729
Jeff Stein
Personal blog · spytalk.copoliticssecurity
Jeff Stein writes SpyTalk, a personal blog at spytalk.co about politics and security. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link SpyTalk, Jeff Stein's Substack on intelligence and national security, as a source for reporting on UFO claims, 9/11 court filings and the Snowden archive. The comments cite it for facts rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Intelligence for Thinking People.
Most-linked posts?
- FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
- The Curious Fate of Citizen Snowden’s Archive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-03
What Hacker News says?
By the way, you might be interested to know that recent reporting [0] (by Rolling Stone contributing editor Seth Hettena on the Substack SpyTalk , the media project run by veteran former Newsweek national security reporter Jeff Stein), based on legal filings in Guantanamo Bay cases against 9/11 plotters, suggests that the FBI believes the CIA did fund some of the 9/11 terrorists, in the sense that they were cultivat…
Comment linking /p/exclusive-fbi-agents-accuse-cia-of
on “US Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs”Submitted Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq as a story · 93 points
HN discussionLooks like there's 3 copies of Snowden's files: https://www.spytalk.co/p/the-curious-fate-of-citizen-snowden... Bart Gelman has his copy in "cold storage" whatever that means. He doesn't sound happy about having it.
Comment linking /p/the-curious-fate-of-citizen-snowdens
on “New revelations from the Snowden archive surface”Submitted Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Evidence Ties Russia to Havana Syndrome Attacks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted High-Level Chinese Defection Rumored as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dmitri Alperovitch on the New Cold War with China as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dmitri Alperovitch on the New Cold War with China as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Huge China Data Dump Disappears as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curious Fate of Citizen Snowden’s Archive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Long Arm of China’s Police Reaches into the U.S. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted CIA Officer Became ‘Formidable Foe’ of U.S. Government as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why a CIA Psychiatrist Called Trump Nuts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jack Teixeira and Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Le Carré: The Spy Who Saw into Our Eyes as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
