Welcome Secrets Machine subscribers
As you can see, I’ve started a new Sustack here about government secrets, hoping to build a home for new reporting — small articles, reports on new secret organizations, codenames, secret programs, etc. I still write for Newsweek (where I’m Senior Editor - Intelligence) and I’ll still write books. But everyday I pick up small details and clues about what’s going on right now, and I have no outlet for them. Often they’re just not enough for a formal article, and almost always they are mostly outside the journalistic trade’s conventions of second sourcing and agency comment.
I’m only one person, and I’m still figuring out the best way to pass on what I know and learn, but I’ll endeavor to provides insights and tips that I hope will enhance understanding and provoke futher inquiry, particularly amongst the mainstream news media. I hope to bring in collaborators over time to add skills that I don’t possess
I’m a little off the Substack model. My opinions are not what I’m pushing here, though you’ll aways detect my cynical view of the bureaucracy and the generals. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber to support the newsletter; I’ll pay you back in terms of keep an eye on a world that few try to track in real time.
Bill