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In February 2024, Indonesia elected Prabowo Subianto as its next president. While he does not take office until October, speculation over whether and how Indonesia's foreign policy might change is already swirling. Certainly, there have been indications that Prabowo...

The sustained attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels since November 2023 have given a fresh boost to a budding Central Asian trade network known as the "Middle Corridor" and, in so doing,...

In September 2023, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held its first ASEAN-only joint military exercise. Personnel from all ten of its member countries participated in five days of drills that practiced maritime patrols, search-and-rescue operations, and the...

In May 2022, a Chinese navy Type 815 electronic surveillance ship, the Haiwangxing, sailed close to the Harold E. Holt naval communication station in western Australia, a facility jointly operated by Australia and the United States. On the edge...

The RFE as a frontier melting pot, 1863-1917 -- Intervention, 1918-1922 -- Korean korenizatsiia and its socialist construction -- Koreans becoming a Soviet people, 1923-1930 -- Security concerns trumping korenizatsiia, 1931-1937 -- The Korean deportation and life in Central Asia, 1937-early 1940s -- Voices in the field

Abstract: This study is about the East Asians in Soviet intelligence (EASI) in the Cheka and other incarnations of the Soviet political police to 1945. It will investigate and analyze the "naturals," one variant of the Soviet illegal, who were sent on intelligence operations (called Maki Mirage) in the Far East from 1920 to 1945. This paper will also explain why the Foreign Department (INO) expanded and pivoted to the use of two sets of agents—"Russians" and East Asians—in Manchuria. Then, we will examine five outstanding "naturals" in the INO for overseas missions. Finally, this study connects the significance of the INO and EASI missions in regards to Stalinism and Soviet socialism. This is the sixth article in the series on East Asians in Soviet intelligence.