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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Ilir Nazmi Kumbaro, who was once the spy chief in Albania, did not show up earlier this month at Westminster magistrates’ court in London, for his extradition hearing related to six counts of torture and kidnapping brought against him in his homeland, and has disappeared. Among the charges, an accusation of abduction was leveled in the…

Hezbollah took to the airwaves earlier this month, and in a broadcast from the television station al-Manar, identified 10 CIA operatives in Lebanon. Al-Manar reported that those named were CIA officers, who all had been cloaked under diplomatic cover. It further purported that their assignment was the supervision of the spy rings in Lebanon. The station…

Iran divulged the arrest this past week of an Iranian national it claimed was working for American intelligence, specifically, the CIA. State TV reported the Intelligence Ministry account that the purported operative had been furnished with weapons instruction at American bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, and whose assignment entailed supplying false information to the Iranians. The…

GCHQ, the British spy agency known for signal intelligence, posted a puzzle online earlier this month in an effort to not only drum up recruits but assess the code cracking capabilities and measure the technical expertise of these would be agents of the computer age. Visitors to the website, which made no mention of the espionage…

A series of mysterious explosions that have plagued Iran, along with the slayings of several of its nuclear scientists, have caused the supposition by some in the intelligence community of a campaign of destruction by the U.S. and Israel directed at Iranian nuclear and missile programs, according to a Los Angeles Times report earlier this month.…

U.S. officials have admitted that the unmanned RQ-170 plane that seemingly fell into Iranian hands earlier this month was from the CIA fleet. The stealth aircraft has a highly sophisticated surveillance capability, due in part to its customized coatings and batwing form, features facilitating penetration of foreign air defenses without detection. The CIA employed the RQ-170…

By Daria Carmon

Two people were placed into government custody in Taiwan early this week as Taiwanese investigators probe the most recent espionage attack on Taiwan’s defense system. One is a military intelligence officer from Taiwan who allegedly transferred classified data to another Taiwanese man with business interests in China. This business man then allegedly passed the…

A conference was held last month in Ottawa for the express purpose of combating the annual losses in billions of dollars inflicted on Canadian industry by corporate spies. The title of the forum that took place over two days was CISC 2011: Protecting Your Company Against Corporate Espionage, and had at its helm Michel Juneau-Katsuya, onetime…

A onetime operative for China’s Ministry of State Security identified as Li Fengzhi, disclosed while a participant in a spy conference held recently in Canada, that a chief priority of Chinese agents there is gathering information from politicians as well as gaining greater political clout for Beijing in that country. Li, whose defection to the U.S.…

Within the last week, came word from Iran of the arrests of 12 purported CIA “assets” or local recruits, who stand accused of espionage targeting that country’s nuclear program and industrial sector. Reports surfaced that Iran, in conjunction with Hezbollah, had uncovered supposed CIA informants, including a ring operating out of a Pizza Hut. Heydar Moslehi,…

By Daria Carmon

The CIA spy network in Lebanon has sustained severe blows in recent months, according to accounts given to the Associated Press by current and onetime U.S. officials, commencing with Hezbollah’s apprehension of two American spies. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who has led Hezbollah for many years, took to the airwaves in June to brag on…