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ISRAELI CITIZEN BEING TRIED IN ABSE...

The Egyptian daily publication Al-Ahram identified the purported Mossad accomplice of accused Israeli spy Bashar Ibrahim Abu-Zeid as Ophir Harari in its account on February 24th of the spy trial currently underway in Egypt. Jordanian engineer Abu-Zeid was an employee of the leading Egyptian mobile service provider Mobinil, and allegedly attempted to smuggle 300 SIM cards …

LEBANESE MILITARY COURT CONDEMNS TH...

A Lebanese military tribunal handed down the death penalty on February 24th to three Lebanese men convicted of espionage as Israeli agents. Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war and so a conviction on spying charges can carry a death sentence. According to Naharnet, a Lebanese news website, one of the men, Moussa Ali Moussa …

FORMER TURKISH AGENT DETAINED ON SU...

An ex operative for the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence organization, referred to only by the initials OS in that country’s news accounts, was placed in Turkish custody along with four others in early February, awaiting indictment on charges related to the kidnapping of two former Syrian military officers from a refugee camp in Hatay province, and their …

EXPULSION OF RWANDAN DIPLOMAT BY SW...

A well placed source has disclosed to the Associated Press under cover of anonymity that the Swedish government ordered a Rwandan diplomat to leave the country earlier this month because of espionage targeting Rwandan exiles living there. A second anonymous source identified the Rwandan envoy as Evode Mudaheranwa, who held the second highest ranking position at …

RUSSIAN MILITARY COURT FINDS OFFICE...

A Russian military tribunal handed down a conviction on the 10th of this month in the case of Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nesterets, who had entered a guilty plea to charges of turning over classified information on Russian missiles to the CIA, and consequently decreed a 13 year prison term. According to the Federal Security Service, successor …

ARRESTS OF TWO ACCUSED SYRIAN SPIES...

Two men, identified solely as Akram O. and Mahmoud El A., a Syrian national and a German-Lebanese dual citizen respectively, were taken into custody in Berlin on the 7th on suspicion of espionage targeting Syrian opposition groups operating in Germany. They are alleged to have carried out a systematic monitoring spanning a number of years. The …

EX MOTOROLA EMPLOYEE FOUND INNOCENT...

U.S District Judge Ruben Castillo last week found onetime Motorola software developer Hanjuan Jin guilty of stealing industry secrets from her former employer, but failed to convict on the more serious economic espionage charges, citing insufficient evidence the naturalized American citizen was a foreign operative. The bench trial held in Chicago underscored national jitters concerning China’s …

COURT MARTIAL PROCEEDINGS LATEST DE...

A court martial was ordered last week in the Bradley Manning case, wherein the Army private and onetime intelligence analyst is alleged to have turned over hundreds of thousands of secret documents to the WikiLeaks website, which constituted the most massive leak ever of classified American information. Military District of Washington commander Major General Michael Linnington …

ANOTHER TWO RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC PERS...

CTV News reported last week that two additional Russian diplomatic personnel have left Canada and gone home, following the arrest of naval officer Jeffrey Delisle in mid January on charges of turning over classified information to a foreign entity, and subsequent speculation the recipient was Russia. The already referred to defense attaché in Ottawa and consulate …

FORMER CIA OFFICER LATEST SUSPECT C...

John Kiriakou, an ex CIA officer, was charged last week under the Espionage Act with passing on classified information to journalists. The Obama administration has made unparalleled use of the aforementioned legislation in its crackdown on current or onetime government officials turning over information to reporters, according to Steven Aftergood, who monitors the intelligence community for …

ZAMBIAN OFFICIAL DEMANDS THREE ACCU...

Kennedy Sakeni, Zambia’s Interior Minister, has called on three Czech nationals who were to go on trial for espionage there this month, but jumped bail in December and subsequently turned up in their native Czech Republic, to go back and stand trial. Michal Vebr, Jiri Cetel, and Jan Coufal, employees of a Dutch exhibition logistics firm, …

FORMER AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYEE...

Elliot Doxer, an ex employee of Akamai Technologies Inc. who entered a guilty plea to a charge of foreign economic espionage this past August, specifically to turning over trade secrets of his employer to an undercover FBI operative he thought was an Israeli agent, received a six month prison term and a $25,000 fine at a …