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August 31, 2009
Son of notorious CIA double agent p...
Earlier this year, it was discovered that the son of the highest-ranking CIA operative ever to be convicted of spying for the other side, was helping his imprisoned father to continue collaborating with the Russians. The father – Harold Nicholson – was...
August 30, 2009
See through Oz’s new spy HQ
And we do mean literally. Australia is sparing no expense on the new Canberra-based headquarters of its domestic spy agency ASIO, which will be the 2nd largest building in the city. The project’s just begun – tell-tale signs mark...
August 28, 2009
CIA under investigation
Despite protests (we’ve already conducted an internal investigation; employees who committed abuses have already been duly reprimanded) and extenuating circumstances (the CIA was up against a then very unknown enemy...
August 27, 2009
Reiss guilty of nuclear espionage?
The plot thickens in the case of Clotilde Reiss, whom the Iranian ambassador to Paris believes is guilty of nuclear espionage. Ambassador Seyyed Mehdi Mirabutalebi was interviewed by a French daily newspaper...
August 26, 2009
French spy escapes captivity in Som...
If you listen to the rumors, it seems that this security agent paid extra close attention when trained in the art of escape. One of two French agents kidnapped last month by Somali insurgents, he earned his freedom by killing three of...
August 25, 2009
Warning: fake DHS e-mails circulati...
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a warning about a slew of fake e-mails in circulation that claim to be from the Department’s intelligence unit. The e-mails appear to contain legitimate...
August 25, 2009
More U.S. spy planes sent to fight ...
Spy planes are playing a significant part in the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and the United States has decided that with the growing sophistication of the Taliban, it’s becoming increasingly important to deploy additional spy...
August 24, 2009
Beware of ‘diplomatic immunity’...
By Haggai Carmon
The email message below has been circulated on the Internet and is just one example of many. This one is obviously a scam, but some are more convincingly written and somewhat harder to see through. I strongly recommend that diplomatic missions advise their staff of this type of scam, which targets individuals who …
August 24, 2009
Egypt: Trial of Hezbollah spies in ...
This Sunday, Egypt brought 26 alleged Hezbollah agents to the stand, where they were formally accused of passing information to a foreign organization, possession of explosive material and planning terrorist attacks on Egyptian...
August 21, 2009
CIA’s contractor conundrum
The CIA’s been under a microscope lately, and Director Leon Panetta didn’t help matters by coming clean to Congress this June about a terrorist assassination operation that went on for seven years (unbeknownst to Congress). Worse yet is...
August 20, 2009
Iran insists charges against Reiss ...
It comes as no surprise that Iran thinks France’s official perspective regarding Clotilde Reiss is “biased and irrational.” France managed to win her temporary release, at the hefty bail fee of $300,000, but calling for Tehran to drop the charges against Reiss altogether has met with indignation. Iran insists that Ms. Reiss is not a political …
August 19, 2009
Prague expels spies; Russia retalia...
Russia’s tit-for-tat policy continues with its expulsion of two Czech diplomats yesterday in direct retaliation to Prague’s removal of two Russian diplomats believed by the Czech Republic to be spying. Spying on...
August 18, 2009
Hacker hunter turns bad
Albert Gonzalez once used his wily computer skills to help the U.S. government track down hackers. Now it seems he’s crossed over to the other side, where instead of spying to protect U.S. citizens, he’s been spying to steal millions...
August 17, 2009
Iran: French ‘spy’ out on bail
Clotilde Reiss, a French teacher accused of spying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections, was released on bail yesterday after spending a month and a half in Tehran’s now infamous Evin prison. Just shy of her 24th birthday...
August 16, 2009
New spy show to air on FX
Don’t expect another typical spy show here, folks. "Archer," an animated half-hour comedy launching this fall on FX, may be set at an international spy agency (ISIS), but you’ll find it’s more about the relationships between the agents than the spy missions. It seems that when global...