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July 14, 2009
China says has conclusive evidence ...
China has surprised just about everyone with its recent arrest of four employees of the world’s second largest mining company, Rio Tinto. The detainees – one Australian and three Chinese – have been accused...
July 13, 2009
Rush of cyber attacks in South Kore...
The websites in South Korea that have recently been crashing under a series of Denial of Service (DoS) cyber attacks seem to be operating regularly again, since last Thursday’s assault. As a result, South Korea’s National Intelligence...
July 12, 2009
Spy charges against French woman ba...
The first time we got wind of the French woman who was recently arrested in Iran for spying, not too many details of her circumstances had yet been shared with the public – not even her name. Slowly, more information is...
July 10, 2009
Seven ‘spies’ beheaded in Somal...
In Somalia today, seven people were executed by the fanatic Islamic insurgency for being spies and followers of Christianity. The group responsible for the beheadings is Al Shabaab (Youth in Arabic), a rebel faction affiliated with Al Qaeda. Al Shabaab is committed to overthrowing the Somali government and imposing...
July 9, 2009
CIA misled Congress for 8 years
A group of seven Democrats, all members of the House Intelligence Committee, has just made public a rather controversial admission made by CIA Director Leon Panetta in closed-door testimony before the committee last month.
Panetta testified that the CIA routinely hid “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 through to June 2009. Although we do not know …
July 8, 2009
Goldman code spy out on bail
Sergey Aleynikov – a Russian computer programmer who started working at Goldman Sachs in May 2007 and was recently accused of stealing code from the company – was released on $750,000 bail. In addition to...
July 7, 2009
British spy chief’s Facebook faux...
Britain’s newly appointed spy chief has suffered his first international embarrassment and he hasn’t even started in his new role yet! Sir John Sawers (53), who will lead the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency come November, has been caught on Facebook with...
July 6, 2009
Iran arrests French woman for ‘sp...
France’s foreign ministry has appealed to the European Union for support in pressuring Iran to release yet another foreigner accused by the Iranians of spying. The French woman, an academic by profession, had been in Iran for...
July 5, 2009
CIA out to sabotage ex-employee’s...
Stephen Lee used to work for the CIA as an operations manager. He now blogs for The Washington Examiner, and is getting the sneaky suspicion that his former employer is out to make his life in his new career a little difficult.
“I believe I am being subjected to a campaign of low-level harassment,” said …
July 3, 2009
Former CIA spy laments Milan rendit...
An ex-U.S. spy – once a CIA station chief in Italy – recently spoke to the Italian paper Il Giornale about his involvement in a 2003 CIA rendition heist, which took a Muslim cleric (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr) suspected of terrorist involvement from his home in...
July 2, 2009
N. Korea leader names son new spy c...
Last summer, when Kim Jong Il – the leader of the communist state of North Korea – had a stroke, speculation ran wild about who would take the reins of the country if Kim were to die without naming a successor. Kim recovered, and it looks like he’s got big plans for...
July 1, 2009
Guantanamo inmate to be released
Abdulrahim Al Janko, a Guantanamo detainee, was picked up by the U.S. military in 2002 in an Afghan prison renowned for its extremely grim conditions. He was purportedly suspected by the Taliban and Al Qaeda of being an American spy...