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Son of notorious CIA double agent pleads guilty
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…
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…
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…
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…
French spy escapes captivity in Somalia
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…
Warning: fake DHS e-mails circulating
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…
More U.S. spy planes sent to fight Taliban
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…
Beware of ‘diplomatic immunity’ scams
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 may…
Egypt: Trial of Hezbollah spies in motion
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…
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…
Iran insists charges against Reiss legitimate
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 victim.
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Prague expels spies; Russia retaliates
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sudan president demotes top spy chief
Salah Gosh, head of Sudan’s security and intelligence agency since 2002, will be moving to a presidential advisory position bearing significantly less power, as per a decree issued by Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Gosh has been in…
Taliban’s drug money funding overestimated
So how much drug money does the Taliban rely on for survival and ops? Apparently not that much, according to a Senate report sharing the findings of CIA and DIA investigations, but…
Sri Lanka spies battle on against Tiger rebels
After the Sri Lankan government put a stop, in May, to a 25-year war waged by the rebel militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country’s intelligence ops are now focused on making sure those militants trying…
Spying v. Intelligence
As we’re sure you’ve noticed, lots of the items we post here have to do with pretty serious stuff. Being imprisoned for espionage in North Korea or Iran – whether you are guilty or not – is no joke. Neither are the terrorist plots that…
UK spy chief says British intelligence not guilty o ...
Allegations are mounting – have MI5 and MI6 agents been involved in the extreme interrogation and torture of terror suspects abroad? It would not be shocking, given the threat of terrorism, the pressure to stop it in its tracks, and…
Surrender in Colombia spy scandal
Last Thursday, arrests warrants were issued for 10 former officials of Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency DAS. The 10 are suspected of having spied illegally on people – including judges, journalists and…
Spy school: girls only!
Alright, ladies, this is it – your chance to pick up the skills that’ll leave you as seductive and spy-tastic as any of the Bond girls. The Stiletto Spy School, with training sessions in New York and Vegas, plus custom events if…
American reporters freed from N. Korea
So, what happens when two American journalists are arrested in a communist country in which the U.S. has no diplomatic presence, and – following accusations of espionage – are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in…
U.S. hikers accused of working for CIA
According to a Tehran television news program, local Iranian police are now accusing the three Americans arrested in Iran on Friday of being U.S. spies in the employ of the CIA. Shocked? Of course not. The accusation is…
Iran to accuse 3 U.S. hikers of spying?
Three American hikers who accidentally crossed into Iran from Kurdish Iraq while on a hiking trip in the resort town of Ahmed Awaa were surrounded and arrested by Iranian troops on Friday. There is no indication that the three were working as spies, but given Iran’s…