The documentary Putin, Russia and the West, which aired on the BBC the 19th of this month, incorporates the admission by former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, that the seemingly farfetched Russian allegations dating to 2006 of British use of a fake rock in a Moscow park for espionage, were indeed true. …
Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle, an intelligence officer in the Canadian Navy, holds the dubious distinction of being the initial espionage suspect charged under that country’s Security of Information Act, following his arrest by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during the weekend of January 14th. The aforementioned legislation was enacted in 2001 in the aftermath of the …
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, an ex Marine Arabic translator, was found guilty of being a CIA agent by an Iranian court, which handed down a death sentence, according to a state radio account last week. Specifically, the conviction entailed charges of spying for an enemy nation, serving as a CIA operative, and attempting to cast Iran as …
March 22 was set by an Indian court this week as the start date for the trial of Madhuri Gupta, an erstwhile Second Secretary grade diplomat at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, on espionage and conspiracy charges related to allegations she had turned over classified information to Pakistani intelligence. The espionage charges against the officer …
The mission of the top secret American spaceplane, the X-37B, called the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) as well, has come under increased scrutiny, leading to suppositions that it is being utilized for espionage. The unmanned spacecraft remains in orbit after a launching by the United States Air Force this past March, and has drawn the close …
Kexue Huang, a scientist who pled guilty in October of last year to industrial espionage carried out while an employee of Dow Chemical Co. and Cargill Inc., received a prison term of seven years and three months at his sentencing on December 21 in Indianapolis before United States District Judge William T. Lawrence. The landmark action …
In the wake of the December 18th release of two Kuwaitis from a 36 day detention by Iranian authorities, Kuwait denied that a deal had been reached for it to release two Iranians found guilty of spying. The two detained Kuwaitis, lawyer and journalist Adel Al Yahya, and TV cameraman Raed Al Majid, first were accused …
Convicted Russian spy Chris Vaneker, an ex F-16 pilot in the Dutch Air Force, last month received a five year prison term from a court in The Hague. Specifically, his espionage conviction entailed the transmission of classified information to a Russian diplomat. According to the court, Vaneker initiated contact with the Russian delegation’s military attaché at …
Swiss authorities brought formal charges against Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco, all Swiss engineers, last month in connection with a Pakistani directed nuclear smuggling network that served as a supplier for the Libyan atomic weapons program. The indictments against the Tinners dealt specifically with purported violation of arms export laws, and came after …