Associate Prof/SL in Intelligence Studies @warstudies @kcl.ac.uk www.KCSI.uk Interests: #ColdWar #intelligence #covertops, #terrorism, USSR/Russia, CEE, #MiddleEast Author of 📙 #WatchingTheJackals 👉 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watching-the-Jackalshttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3mchrvznxoc22☀️🎓 Thrilled to be celebrating the MA Intelligence & International Security graduation on such a glorious day. 🎉 Huge congratulations to the Class of 2026! What a brilliant cohort and genuinely fun to teach. 🙌🏻 We cannot wait to see where you all go next and the impact you will make along the way.15 Jan 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchrvznxoc22https://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3mbphb3ofdk2w📢 #WatchingTheJackals is 1 year old. The reception has gone far beyond what I had expected (and Central Europeans aren't known for low expectations). Here’s a snapshot of highlights from the past 12 months. A collective 🙏 to all who quietly made this happen. You know who you are. 1/4 ENDORSEMENTS05 Jan 2026 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbphb3ofdk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3manry3w6os2aThe 2025 #KCSI Holiday Book Guide is here! ✨ Old favourites, 2025 releases and what’s coming next from the 🕵️‍♀️📚 shelves. 📍 Available now via @kcsi.uk.23 Dec 2025 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3manry3w6os2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m7cvflrsl22j📕 🕵‍♀️ Very happily stunned that Chris Costa, Executive Director of International Spy Museum has put #WatchingTheJackals at the top of his 2025 "must read" list & called it "gripping". 👉 Check out the International Spy Museum's socials for Chris' reflections on his top 5 reads.06 Dec 2025 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7cvflrsl22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m6zjaiukkc2n🎧 Grateful to contribute to the 📻 prgm "CURRENTLY: Playing Spies", drawing on what I’ve learned while observing recent UK trials linked to RU sabotage & espionage. Thanks 🙏 @gordoncorera.bsky.social & #BBC Radio 4 production team for putting this excellent programme together! 👉 shorturl.at/icEjs https://shorturl.at/icEjs02 Dec 2025 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zjaiukkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m6ukxqjx622s📕 🎄 📘 I am grateful to Walter Landgraf for including #WatchingTheJackals on this year’s @warontherocks.bsky.social Holiday Reading List. It means a great deal to have the story recognised alongside such an impressive list of titles 👉 shorturl.at/fc6l1 🙏 to the GUP team & editors for their support https://shorturl.at/fc6l130 Nov 2025 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ukxqjx622shttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m66ewg576s2t🔍 Spotlight on “Strategic Vandalism” See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence. 📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Nov 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m66ewg576s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m4ds7njuk22p📢 Check out the latest publications by Team @kcsi.uk 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Oct 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ds7njuk22phttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m3uiulg5ak2r🐧 Grateful and excited about what lies ahead. 🙌 Thankful to everyone involved! https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/viking-acquires-daniela-richterovas-extraordinary-untold-story-of-a-spy23 Oct 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3uiulg5ak2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m3pzkfnddc2g📢 📚 Very much looking forward to this! Danke schön @recetvienna.bsky.social for the invite.21 Oct 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pzkfnddc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m2okkcm7gc2k📙 #WatchingTheJackals spotted in the wild 🌴 in exquisite company by Ted Reinert @jfbooks in DC. 🙏08 Oct 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2okkcm7gc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m2jezy6vbs2tFantastic speaking to Michael Young of Malcolm H. Kerr @carnegiemec.bsky.social about #WatchingTheJackals & lessons from Cold War CT. 👉 shorturl.at/v1tr1 https://shorturl.at/v1tr106 Oct 2025 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jezy6vbs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m252kwahek2t1/4 🎓🕵️‍♀️ Exciting times for #KCLMAIIS - the MA in Intelligence & International Security, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, co-run with @paulmcgarr.bsky.social, @paulineblistene.bsky.social, David Easter, Huw Dylan & Celia Parker-Vincent.01 Oct 2025 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m252kwahek2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3m22u35g4lc2w1/3 📕 #CovertAction: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention is now out! I am delighted to have co-authored the chapter “Czechoslovakia: Covert Measures in Peace and War.”30 Sep 2025 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22u35g4lc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lwvu5nnzls2z21 Aug 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwvu5nnzls2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lwter4wxsc2rDo you have an older 💻 or 📱 you no longer use? Back in 2021, Sarah G.Solecki, Ilke D.Hustings & I organised several small-scale initiatives to help Afghan families settle in the UK. We also donated 2 older laptops to Screen Share UK – an org dedicated to empowering refugees through access to tech. https://www.screen-share.co.uk/20 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwter4wxsc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lvlu5kbt5k2z🙌 Delighted to have taken part in the @camsecurity.bsky.social ISI Summer School of '25. 🚨 Enjoyed lecturing & discussing the history & contemporary relevance of #sabotage. More coming soon! 🎓 Wishing the cohort all the best in their pursuit of understanding or shaping #internationalsecurity.04 Aug 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlu5kbt5k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3luxawps4s225Many 🙏 to Dr Rosie Johnston & @recetvienna.bsky.social in Vienna for hosting me on the #TransformativePodcast: shorturl.at/X6Do9. Do check out Rosie's fantastic research on the #ColdWar politics of #audiojournalism & her team's project on global politics of #Czechoslovak #weapons: shorturl.at/NStm227 Jul 2025 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3luxawps4s225https://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3luhum6dtc22p21 Jul 2025 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3luhum6dtc22phttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lu4a5ipbqk27🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin? 🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jul 2025 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu4a5ipbqk27https://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3ltzvitsjxc23Still #Commandos, wild Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. #SpyGems15 Jul 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzvitsjxc23https://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lrahlnmg422pMany 🙌 @nytimes.com for including #WatchingTheJackals in your Father’s Day roundup — in my favourite category, no less: "For the dad who’s still talking about The Americans finale." If you're shopping for the espionage aficionado in your life (or just yourself), see full list: shorturl.at/nov9V https://shorturl.at/nov9V10 Jun 2025 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrahlnmg422phttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lqr2g7a5xs2u📺 A new #BBCFour #Storyville documentary on #CarlosTheJackal now streaming on iPlayer. A sharp recap for those interested in the history & mythology of Cold War-era international terrorism. Many 🙏 to the creators for bringing insights from 📚 #WatchingTheJackals to life on screen. shorturl.at/JFUFh https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d35t04 Jun 2025 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqr2g7a5xs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lq5kiyvnf22sWho were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances? 🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode. 👉 shorturl.at/ipOUl https://shorturl.at/ipOUl27 May 2025 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5kiyvnf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lpui77hcnc2qMany thanks to @shaunwalker7.bsky.social & @christogrozev.bsky.social for a fantastic evening at @theguardian.com Live. 🙌 @kcsi.uk / @camsecurity.bsky.social / @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social / @warstudieskcl.bsky.social23 May 2025 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpui77hcnc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3loosg4xgpc2s#shame shorturl.at/UDzYd https://shorturl.at/UDzYd08 May 2025 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3loosg4xgpc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3loksxmiypc2y💼 Had a fantastic time teaching @charlesuni.cuni.cz in Prague on CEE's ties w/ #ColdWarJackals. The students excelled in the final simulation exercise on intel liaison — sharp analysis & fantastic visuals that brought their presentations to life. Big 🙏 to Irena Kalhousova for making this happen!07 May 2025 06:56 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3loksxmiypc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/drichterova.bsky.social/post/3lo4xc55hcs2u📢 Join in person/online for @theguardian.com Live Events where I'll be speaking alongside christogrozev.bsky.social & @shaunwalker7.bsky.social about the UK's largest #spytrial and what it tells us about contemporary #espionage & #activemeasures. 22nd May / 19:30-21:00 / Register: shorturl.at/yY8cf https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2025/mar/24/russias-spies-uncovering-russias-secret-espionage-programmes01 May 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:katfuvzysqwjs25peho32j27/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4xc55hcs2u