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S. Korea spy agency launches educational ‘spot th ...
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…
N. Korea says it will fire at any Japanese spy plan ...
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…
UK: Deloitte in the counter-espionage game
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…
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…
New spy drama: The Spy and the Sparrow
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…
Debate on FBI use of informants in mosques
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 in…
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…
U.S. satellites not to spy on Americans
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cuban spies plead for house arrest over detention
Denied bail because they were deemed to be a flight risk, the Cuban spy couple arrested on June 4 have requested they be…
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…
Ex-Chinese spy appeals to stay in Bangkok
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…
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…
Supreme Court: bad news for Cuban spies
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that they won’t be reviewing the convictions of five Cuban intelligence operatives who appealed to the court on grounds of having received unfair trials…
CIA recruits Wall Street execs
Britain’s not the only country looking to recruit intelligence officers in unusual places. But while the Brits have turned to their nation’s teaching force, in the United States it’s not teachers we can spare, but rather? You got it, all those…
MI5 Hiring Teachers
To teach? No, of course not – to spy. The British security agency MI5, whose mission is to frustrate terrorism, stop foreign espionage and prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, has decided that Britain’s teachers have just the…
No bail for Cuban spies
Yesterday, a U.S. federal judge denied bail to a retired State Department employee and his wife, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers, who were both recently…
Israel develops spying snake
Although robotic serpents are not a brand-new idea, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been developing a robot spy snake capable of recording both video and audio across a variety of battlefield terrains. The robot is about 6.5 feet long and…
Cuban spies shock unsuspecting neighbors
On Thursday, June 4, a retired State Department analyst with top secret security clearance and his wife were arrested by FBI agents on charges of fraud, conspiracy and acting as…
12 years in N. Korea prison for 2 U.S. reporters
Arrested in March for ‘spying’ on and entering North Korea illegally, two female American journalists – after a 5-day trial – were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for committing…
Night vision without the carrots
Apparently eating lots of carrots helps you see better in the dark, but if you’re looking for a more immediate option, you’ll want to check out these Eyeclops night vision goggles from…
Spy flick to feature Chanel head designer
It’s not often that folks mention spies and haute couture in the same sentence, but here it is: Haute Couture icon Karl Lagerfeld (the designer at the helm of the fashion house Chanel) has agreed to voice for one of the characters in…
Mosque informant says FBI didn’t pay him
A man claiming to have worked as an FBI informant is seeking damages of $10 million for not being paid as he should have been, not to mention having had to spend eight months in prison for a charge he…