- As the news initially broke, one could only wonder about the clout Ms. Kelley had for such an investigation to have been launched, the indiscretion on the part of Ms. Broadwell, and the resignation along with the fall from grace of Mr. Petraeus.
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Countries including the UK and Canada have expelled Russian diplomats for alleged spying in recent years. Three apparently separate events within three days have brought the activities of Russians in Romania under the microscope. One led to a 19-year-old Romanian being seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident, and another involves serious alleged espionage with a tint …
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- Characterized as a “shame for the military”. Taiwan has arrested Chang Chih-hsin, the former chief of political warfare at the Taiwanese naval meteorology and oceanography office, along with two other former military officers; on charges of spying for China
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- An FBI affidavit unsealed Monday says Hitselberger copied documents last spring that discussed gaps in U.S. intelligence in Bahrain as well as military troop activities in the region. His superiors later found the material stashed in his backpack, and investigators said they subsequently discovered additional classified material at Stanford in the "James F. Hitselberger Collection."
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Upon discovering that his wife of 19 years was having an affair, Canadian Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, decided to walk into the Russian Embassy in 2007 and offer his services. Thus began Jeff Delisle’s double life in espionage that abruptly ended when he aroused the suspicion of the border agent who noticed that he was carrying …
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Citing a series of “disruptive” attacks against U.S. companies, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta detailed the far more serious so-called “Shamoon” virus attack on the Saudi Arabian state oil company, Aramco. That August strike wiped out 30,000 of the companies computers. It created the image of a U.S. flag in flames on the infected computers and …
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The Chinese government detained a security official believed to be a minister in China’s intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, who is suspected of passing information to the United States. It is unknown what kind of information the official may have divulged to the U.S. If true, the situation could prove to be the biggest …
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Israeli citizen Massoud Bouton isn’t who everyone around him—from government officials to fellow businessmen—thought he was. As an Israeli spy in Israel’s military intelligence service, he was known to all as Mustafa Taleb, a Lebanese businessman of Algerian descent. Residing in Beirut, his real work was to recruit operatives in enemy countries. In 1962, after Algeria’s …
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A plethora of articles are in the headlines these days on the CIA’s and the Army’s use of drones to strike terrorist targets in Pakistan. The question is, what else are they used for? The answer: for high-tech surveillance. It has already been released to the public that the U.S. has tiny remote-controlled vehicles based on …
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Waterboarding by the military has been front and center in the news media. For nearly 10 years, American officials have been criticized for waterboarding and have been accused that waterboarding interrogation techniques are a form of torture. A former CIA intelligence officer has revealed insights on this practice.
Jose Rodriguez, Jr. is the former chief of …
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What U.S. Homeland Security does to protect the U.S. is interesting to many, but now you can find out how your own online activity might trigger Homeland Security to monitor you. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the department had to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to look for signs of terrorist …
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Three of the top 5 on America’s Most Wanted list of terrorists are in Pakistan. Furthermore, only one of them is in hiding. Bruce Riedel is a former CIA analyst, the former senior National Security Council official in the Clinton Administration, and is currently a fellow in a DC-based conservative think tank. He identifies the 3 …
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A Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 during the Cold War has been opened as a museum in North Korea. The ship is riddled with bullet holes and has dirty floors and unpainted walls, a testimonial to the nightmare faced by the men on this ship, the USS Pueblo. The ship is equipped with …
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The Pentagon’s new espionage unit, called the Defense Clandestine Service (DCS), gives it the authority to focus on spy operations of high-priority targets outside of war zones. The new unit will work closely with the CIA, bringing together two organizations which typically have opposition between them. This expansion was made because in today’s times espionage in …
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Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government’s communications headquarters, GCHQ. Even the date the papers were written is not definitive. GCHQ estimated their age by an item that mentions Hitler’s age. The two papers are now available to view at the National Archives at Kew …
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