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June 15, 2009
Supreme Court: bad news for Cuban s...
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...
June 13, 2009
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...
June 12, 2009
MI5 Hiring Teachers
June 11, 2009
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...
June 10, 2009
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...
June 9, 2009
Cuban spies shock unsuspecting neig...
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...
June 8, 2009
12 years in N. Korea prison for 2 U...
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...
June 7, 2009
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...
June 6, 2009
Spy flick to feature Chanel head de...
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...
June 5, 2009
Mosque informant says FBI didn’t ...
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...
June 4, 2009
First U.S. economic espionage trial...
In 1996, the U.S. Economic Espionage Act was passed, making the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime. No one suspected of economic espionage has gone to trial (six settlements) – until Tuesday, when a...
June 3, 2009
U.S. gov accidentally leaks secret ...
As per today’s NY Times, the U.S. government inadvertently web-published a confidential report on nuclear sites and programs, which included specific location of Uranium stocks. Whoops. Blunders like this are not unheard of – especially in the UK where...
June 2, 2009
U.S. diplomat killed in 2003 was re...
In 2003, Gregg Wenzel (33) died in Ethiopia in what was then reported to be a random traffic accident on the streets of Addis Ababa, caused by a drunken driver. Wenzel was supposedly a U.S. diplomat...
June 1, 2009
23 years later, aging spy fined $50...
