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Inside the Secret World of America&...

Officially, the Special Collection Service, a secret joint program with the CIA codenamed F6, doesn’t exist. Unofficially, its snoops travel the world intercepting private messages and cracking high-tech encryption. SCS is responsible for placing super-high-tech bugs in unbelievably hard-to-reach places. Data collected is then transmitted to the National Security Agency. The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, the …

Finnish-Born Political Scientist Fa...

A Finnish-born professor of international politics is being charged by Danish authorities with helping a Russian espionage organization. According to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET, the Russian diplomats whom Kivimäki met with were spies. Kivimäki said that the Russians he interacted with behaved like diplomats and not spies. …

Russian Spy Agency Linked to Dead L...

New papers show that Russia’s spy agency authorized a raid on a British investment firm in Moscow that led to a massive tax scam by allegedly corrupt officials and the death of a lawyer who tried to expose the fraud. Sergei Magnitsky, a Moscow-based lawyer, died in November 2009 during pre-trial detention after he was arrested …

RUSSIAN SAILOR SUSPECTED OF SPYING ...

Nanec Hikov, a Russian crew member on the Russian cargo vessel Natali 1, was taken into custody in the North Cyprus port of Famagusta over a purported episode of espionage, as disclosed in Turkish Cypriot media accounts earlier this month. He was allegedly discovered photographing Turkish troopships, and occupation authorities expressly ban any and all photo …

NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR SENTENCED IN ...

The North Korean defector designated solely in the Seoul Central District Court by his last name of Ahn, drew a four year prison sentence earlier this month for conspiring to murder Park Sang-hak, another North Korean defector who has become a high profile anti-Pyongyang activist. When arrested in September of 2011, Ahn, known to have served …

RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE PRESENCE IN BR...

A Daily Telegraph report earlier this month claimed that as much as fifty percent of the personnel staffing the Russian embassy in London might be engaged in espionage. A prominent KGB defector, Oleg Gordievsky, cautioned that the mid-1980s norm of 39 intelligence officers operating out of the embassy could have been surpassed. Mr. Gordievsky served as …

RETIRED RUSSIAN COLONEL ACCUSED OF ...

Formal espionage charges were filed last week against Vladimir Lazar, a retired colonel, for allegedly providing classified topographical maps to the Pentagon. Investigators asserted said information could be employed in organizing military operations against Russia and was applicable in coordinating missile strikes. According to the prosecution, Lazar, a former member of the topography service, bought a …

MI5 EXPOSES ALLEGED ASSASSINATION C...

The British intelligence agency MI5 unmasked a murder plot against Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen politician living in exile in England, according to news reports last week. Mr. Zakayev fled his homeland, the rebel Russian republic engulfed in a brutal civil war, ten years ago, and thereafter received asylum from the British government. He serves as the …