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Turkey Telling on Israeli Mossad Ag...
Did Turkey give Iran the names of Israeli Mossad agents allegedly operating in Turkey? David Ignatius of the Washington Post writes that “early last year the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is said to have disclosed to Iranian intelligence the identities of up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with …
Highly Secret SEAL Mission in N. Vi...
Operation Thunderhead was so highly classified it took 36 years to release the story of a SEAL mission on the North Vietnamese coast on June 3, 1972. Several 4-man SEAL teams were sent to facilitate the escape of American POWs from a prison in Hanoi. One team, led by Philip “Moki” Martin and Lt. Dry, two …
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 …
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 …
Round Two in Iranian Cyber Attacks
By Daria Carmon
Several months after Iran’s nuclear facilities were hit by ‘Stuxnet’ a vicious computer virus, senior government official Gholam Reza Jalali has confirmed that another computer virus, this one borne through the Internet, has been aimed at Iran’s government computer systems. Jalali, head of an Iranian military unit that combats sabotage, alleges that the …
Colombia’s Financial Intelligence...
Mario Aranguren, former director of Colombia’s financial intelligence agency (UIAF) was freed from house arrest late last week. He is awaiting trial for illegally spying on Supreme Court magistrates, journalists, politicians and human rights organizations, peering into their finances without permission or warrant. He had originally been placed under house arrest while the Prosecutor General’s Office …
Iranian Spy Rings Reaching to Kuwai...
In May 2010, seven people were arrested in Kuwait after being accused of spying for Iran. On April 5, 2011, the verdicts in their trials were handed in. Three were sentenced to death, two were given life terms in prison, and two were acquitted. The men sentenced to death are two Iranian men and a Kuwaiti …
Want to Help the FBI? Test Out Your...
In 1999, the FBI found two notes written in encrypted code on the body of a murdered man. The victim, Ricky McCormick, was found in a field with the two notes in his pants pockets. In the following 12 years, McCormick’s killer was never found. Neither was the solution to the coded notes, despite extensive work …
Hints for Asset Hunters
The Swiss government’s decision, on February 12, to freeze Hosni Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks will probably cause sleepless nights to other Middle Eastern rulers who liked to keep themselves in the sun and their assets in the dark. (Cynics will wonder what the Swiss government suddenly discovered that it didn’t know …
Spy Technology Takes Flight
By Daria Carmon
A new age of spy-plane technology is being ushered in, with several large technology companies unveiling and testing new plane designs. AeroVironment Inc, a company based in Monrovia, California, recently tested an experimental plane whose wingspan is almost the size of Boeing 747. The $30 million plane, called the Global Observer, uses liquid …
Libya Arrests Two on Spying Charges
Same Story, Different Day: Germany ...
On Monday, German prosecutors stated that a preliminary investigation had been opened concerning whether a former KGB colonel who had moved with his wife to Germany three months ago had been poisoned. The inquiry comes after a weekly magazine, Focus, wrote that doctors treating the couple found lethal amounts of mercury in their blood after arriving …
CIA Coverup in Swiss Atomic Blackma...
A Swiss family who once acted as moles inside the atomic black market and had a relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency might be in big trouble. A Swiss magistrate recommended on December 23 that the men be charged with trafficking in technology and information for making nuclear weapons. The CIA has been trying to hide …
Top North Korean Nuclear Researcher...
According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper based in Seoul, North Korea’s chief nuclear scientist has been arrested on charges of espionage. The senior researcher, Kim So-in, is rumored to have been arrested in May and taken to the Yodok concentration camp. It is also believed that his family was arrested with him.
So-in …
Georgia Announces Break Up of Alleg...
The Georgian government announced on Friday that it had arrested 13 people accused of spying for Russia’s armed forces. The accused include six military pilots, a naval radio operator, the founder of a non-governmental group called the Globalization Institute, and four Russian citizens. Most are accused of providing Russia with information about Georgia’s combat readiness. The …