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June 30, 2009
S. Korea spy agency launches educat...
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) in South Korea has decided it’s time to educate the country’s youth about the Northern spies in their midst. And the ‘spot the spy’ flash video game is how they plan to do it. The game marks the 59th anniversary of the start of...
June 29, 2009
N. Korea says it will fire at any J...
In North Korea, officials have issued a no-jokes warning to the Japanese, whom they’ve accused of carrying on aerial espionage very close to one of North Korea’s missile launch sites. The threat is as follows: any Japanese planes to enter...
June 28, 2009
UK: Deloitte in the counter-espiona...
The international consultancy Deloitte has announced the launch of a new corporate counter-espionage team within its Security, Privacy & Resilience department. Corporate espionage is on the rise, and Deloitte has cautioned others that this sort of spying can have severe affects on...
June 27, 2009
VP Biden to decide: CIA v. DNI
For the majority of folks, the CIA is the be-all and end-all in American intelligence, but as you likely know – there are 16 distinct U.S. intelligence agencies, and a rather long-standing dispute between the CIA and the...
June 26, 2009
New spy drama: The Spy and the Spar...
Here’s something of note – an espionage thriller that doesn’t have the stamp of Hollywood all over it. The Spy and the Sparrow, part spy movie part intense family drama, premiered recently at the Seattle International Film Festival, which makes sense...
June 25, 2009
Debate on FBI use of informants in ...
Recently, several news stories have made it more than clear that the FBI is planting informants in mosques around the U.S. to spy on fellow worshipers. There’s the case of the mosque informant who claims the FBI failed to pay him for spying on mosques in Southern California and also that of the homegrown terrorist plot …
June 24, 2009
Russians spy on German industry
The top dog in Germany’s domestic counter-espionage department reported this past weekend that Russian spies continue to target the German energy sector to steal secrets that will...
June 23, 2009
U.S. satellites not to spy on Ameri...
If you were one of those people worrying about the Bush administration’s controversial plan to use U.S. spy satellites to monitor the general population – you can put those fears to rest. According to a recent LA Times article, Homeland Security has nixed the...
June 22, 2009
ROTC for spies?
Every year, the U.S. military gets loads of college grads joining its ranks who’ve already been through a fair amount of army training. This is thanks to the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program, which pays college tuition for...
June 21, 2009
Cracking Codes: Part IV
Here are a couple more ciphers for you to mull over and add to your encryption repertoire: the ancient Masonic cipher and a variation, called the tic-tac-toe cipher, which is used to encrypt numbers instead of letters...
June 20, 2009
Taliban kills two spies
According to the Daily Times - a new voice for a new Pakistan - the Taliban killed two locals in Mir Ali subdivision, which is about 15 miles east of Miranshah. They were murdered, it appears, for allegedly spying on...
June 19, 2009
Cuban spies plead for house arrest ...
Denied bail because they were deemed to be a flight risk, the Cuban spy couple arrested on June 4 have requested they be...
June 18, 2009
Spy plane to patrol Canadian border
The U.S. is going to start monitoring the U.S.-Canadian border with an unmanned plane, just like the drones they’ve been employing to keep a watchful eye on the U.S.-Mexican border for...
June 17, 2009
Ex-Chinese spy appeals to stay in B...
For once – a Chinese spy caper that has nothing to do with the United States. Beijing has been pressuring Bangkok to extradite Li Yuzhou, a confessed Chinese spy and dissenter, who has been accused of...
June 16, 2009
UK chooses new spy chief
The UK has chosen its next overseas spy chief. Come November, John Sawers, who is currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, will be heading up England’s international intelligence...