Story Surveillance is a weekly exploration of IP opportunities around the world – including everything from book announcements and magazine articles to harder-to-find nuggets in social media, library vaults, lost manuscripts and other rich sources. The survey is carried out by the staff of Project Brazen for its own purposes, but we also share it with a small group of companies and collaborators.
Story Surveillance #25: Spies & Whistleblowers
In this week's special edition: A little-known CIA operation against Castro, the revelations of a professional whistleblower, espionage in the Arctic and a cult leader who could walk through walls.

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Story Surveillance #52
A corporate espionage scandal in big tech, a feature film about a kind-hearted smuggler, the wild story of a Brazilian judge's identity fraud and a series of exciting new novels.

Story Surveillance #51
A true crime thriller about an errant grandson, a murder-suicide on the Irish border, the new water-pistol assassination game sweeping through America, and an anonymous tell-all memoir from a nanny to Russia's oligarchs and Hong Kong's elite.
Story Surveillance #50
A punchy novel about a woman lost in San Francisco's seedy underground, a Project X-style feature about a residential home being secretly converted into a nightclub, and a grounded sci-fi tale about a tech titan's son and his increasingly human son.