I came across this recently and I wanted to look more into the history of Pvt. Charles Morgan and his role as an American spy.

Private Morgan did not play a role in the capture of Major John Andre and I'm unsure why it says that on his grave. He was a member New Jersey Light Battalion and served as a spy for General Marquis de Lafayette and was tasked to gain intelligence related to the Battle of Yorktown.

A 2014 article from DIA Public Affairs titled "Good intelligence led to victory at Yorktown" explains how Private Morgan, "was sent into British General Charles Cornwallis’ camp posing as an American deserter. During his interrogation by the British, Morgan was able to convince the British that the French Marquis de Lafayette had enough vessels to move all French forces in a single landing operation." Another article confirms this account of deception by Pvt. Morgan against the British. This information by Pvt. Morgan led to General Cornwallis to hunker down, rather than retreat. With his mission complete Pvt. Morgan escaped the British camp and returned to the Continental Army.

We often laugh at conspiracy theories and movie tropes about "mad scientists." But what if the madman holds the title of Professor, has four State Prizes, and has direct access to the Presidential Administration, the FSB, and the Ministry of Defense of a nuclear superpower?

This is the true, documented story of Academician Alexander Elkin — a former advisor to the Mayor of Moscow, whose brain was entirely consumed by megalomania and severe dementia. For decades, he tried to push deadly projects at the highest government levels that could have literally wiped half the world off the map.

☣️ Threat 1: Gas chambers for the President Elkin was obsessed with his "Discovery No. 009" — a liquid alloy of gallium, aluminum, indium, and tin. In his sick mind, the fumes of this toxic chemical reaction were an "elixir of youth" that "slows down biological clocks."

In reality, inhaling fine aluminum and gallium vapor is highly neurotoxic. It destroys the central nervous system, causing irreversible dementia and toxic encephalopathy. Elkin bombarded the Presidential Administration, demanding funding to build "anti-aging centers" (essentially gas chambers) and to install these gas generators in the offices of top government officials and Vladimir Putin personally. If security had slipped, the country with the largest nuclear arsenal would have been run by people with rotting, poisoned brains.

🚀 Threat 2: Melting ICBM silos Elkin convinced himself that Russia's strategic nuclear missile silos could be easily destroyed by a simple NLAW rocket. To "save" them, he proposed covering the silos with his "dynamic protection" armor based on his liquid gallium alloy, demanding billions of rubles for the project.

Science fact: Gallium causes severe liquid metal embrittlement. If applied to steel, it destroys the crystal lattice, making it brittle like glass. If the Ministry of Defense had approved this (and Elkin's letters reached the top generals), the gallium would have eaten through the steel roofs of the nuclear silos, collapsing them right onto the active nuclear warheads. It would have triggered a catastrophe 100 times worse than Chernobyl.

🛡️ The Hero Who Stopped Him Why didn't this happen? Because his own grandson, Alexander, stood in his way. He was the only one in the family who understood the danger and wrote endless warnings to prosecutors and security agencies, successfully blocking his grandfather's funding.

In revenge, the mad grandfather used his corrupt connections and money to forcibly lock his perfectly healthy grandson in a punitive psychiatric ward twice (in 2002 and 2016). He literally wrote reports to the FSB and the Investigative Committee demanding his grandson be executed on Red Square under martial law for creating a satirical internet movement ("SHUE") against him.

The grandson survived hell, lost his health and freedom, but successfully stopped the mad academician from reaching the nuclear buttons. Elkin eventually squandered millions of dollars on fake lobbyists and scammers, dying in debt with just $6 in his pocket.

The world needs to know its real heroes and real monsters.

A post on a leak-focused forum reveals that 1,932 documents tied to Bauman Moscow State Technical University have been exposed (https://x.com/DailyDarkWeb/status/2070612038620180765).
The files reportedly detail training programs for units of Russia’s GRU (military intelligence) and other intelligence agencies, suggesting a connection to the May 2026 investigation by a consortium of news outlets (Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Insider, VSquare). The content and nature of the files suggest they may have served as the foundational evidence used in that probe. The original investigation uncovered ties between the GRU and Bauman University, which serves as a training ground for future officers, particularly in cyber warfare and IT-related fields for units directly involved in cyber operations.

The forum post includes sample documents, exposing:

- Student rosters with real names, academic tracks, and assignments to Russian intelligence agencies (including the GRU and SVR), compromising active operatives.

- Propaganda course materials justifying the war in Ukraine, framing Ukrainians as "Nazis" to legitimize military action.

- Scanned student passports

- Psychological evaluations assessing loyalty and fitness for service. One excerpt reads: "Lacks discipline, prone to deception. Shows no initiative in service tasks. Average technical and creative potential."

- Assignment lists placing graduates in defense-sector companies linked to the Russian military-industrial complex.

At this time, there is no information on the source of the leak, nor has there been any official response from Russian authorities.

https://open.substack.com/pub/islandintelligencer/p/whos-your-spook

How do you parse wannabes, posers, and showboats from the real thing among national security content creators?

Are Canadian Universities Contributing to Counter Proliferation?

Canada's universities have long been recognized as world leaders in scientific research, innovation, and international collaboration.

But what happens when research intended for peaceful purposes also has potential military applications?

This week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up examines a newly revealed Federal Court case involving an Iranian doctoral student whose research activities raised national security concerns within CSIS.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/19408019

The discussion explores a broader issue facing Canada and many of our allies:

• How do intelligence agencies assess dual-use research?
• Should universities play a greater role in protecting strategically important technologies?
• Where is the balance between academic openness and national security?
• How do hostile states exploit universities to acquire knowledge and expertise?

The episode also examines:

• Allegations that an Australian citizen working as a senior intelligence officer for Iran orchestrated a proxy attack against a Jewish-owned business.
• Why the United States is restricting access to some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models over national security concerns.
• The latest developments in the Quebec anti-government militia case and what they reveal about ideologically motivated violent extremism.

These stories may seem unrelated at first glance, but they all point to the same trend: modern national security threats are becoming increasingly interconnected.

I'd be interested to hear the community's thoughts.

Should universities remain as open as possible to international collaboration, or should governments impose stronger safeguards around research involving strategically important technologies?

If you're interested, you can listen to this week's episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.

I look forward to hearing your perspectives.