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Iranian Doctoral Student Being Tried In His Country ...
By Daria Carmon
Omid Kokabee, an Iranian Ph.D. candidate in physics at the University of Texas in Austin, is standing trial on espionage charges in his homeland, after being held in custody since the end of January or February. It is believed he was picked up at the Tehran airport en route to continuing his graduate studies…
Georgia President’s Photographer, Four Others ...
The official photographer for Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Irakli Gedenidze ,and four other suspects, were taken into custody by Georgian authorities on suspicion of working for a foreign government. Gedenidze’s wife Natia, Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs photographer Giorgi Abdaladze and European PressPhoto Agency photographer Zurab Qurtsikidze were identified as the other arrestees, while an unnamed…
Wahhab’s Bodyguard Arrested On Charges Of Bei ...
The military court in Lebanon brought charges of espionage against Jalal A.D., the personal bodyguard of Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab, on Wednesday, June 15th, after he came under suspicion by Hezbollah of collaboration with Israel. According to the pro-Hezbollah publication Al-Akhbar, Wahhab’s security chief was taken into custody by Hezbollah and brought to Beirut’s…
Raymond Davis is a Spy? Not So, Says U.S.
Relations between the United States and Pakistan are heating up as the details surrounding an imprisoned American become less clear. Raymond Davis was arrested by Pakistani officials in January on murder charges after shooting and killing two men. He claims that they approached him in his car with guns drawn in an attempt to rob him…
Top North Korean Nuclear Researcher Arrested on Spy ...
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 Alleged Russian Spy R ...
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…
Lebanon Breaks Up Alleged Israeli Spy Ring
Last week, Lebanon’s military intelligence agency reported the arrest of a Palestinian man, purportedly a spy recruited by Israel. Sources say that the suspect was recruited by Mossad to gather information on terror groups and Lebanese Army movements. Allegedly, he was also told to search for details about Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator. Arad…
Iran Blames West for Stuxnet; Arrests Spies
In the aftermath of the discovery of the complicated and effective Stuxnet worm, Iran’s intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi blamed western intelligence agencies for developing and unleashing the virus on thousands of Iranian computers. He has now announced on Iranian TV that his own intelligence team has captured “several spies” implicated in the plot to derail Iran’s…
Israeli Operative Released on Bail; Dubai Protests
Even though a Polish court upheld the decision to extradite to Germany an Israeli operative going by the name of Uri Brodsky, Mr. Brodsky avoided espionage charges, thanks to a deal seemingly brokered by Israel with Poland and Germany. Although forgery charges are still pending against him in Germany, Mr. Brodsky was released on bail and…
Texas Girl Arrested for Attempted Smuggling to Russ ...
A 24-year-old Texas beautician was arrested on July 15 after trying to smuggle three night-vision rifle scopes into Russia aboard a JFK-Moscow flight in March. Although rifle scopes, which allow riflemen to see more precisely at further distances, are widely available in the U.S., exporting them without a license is illegal.
Anna Fermanova, born in Latvia but…
Israeli spies arrested in Lebanese telecoms industr ...
Lebanon has arrested a telecoms company transmissions engineer, Tareq Raba, on suspicion of spying for Israel. His arrest follows on the heels of last month’s arrest of Charbel Qazzi, a telecoms technician at the same state-owned cellphone company, Alfa.
It seems very likely that Qazzi gave up Raba’s name during interrogation by Lebanese security and intelligence agents,…
N Korea’s assassination plans stalled
It’s no secret that refugees from North Korea’s oppressive government are streaming in droves to South Korea, looking for a place where they can speak freely and find enough food to subsist on. But we bet you didn’t know that every refugee seeking a safe haven in South Korea gets screened and interviewed by intelligence services…
S. Korean drug trafficker spies for enemy
Accused of spying for North Korea in China, a 55-year-old South Korean man was arrested last Thursday while on a brief trip to South Korea. The China-North Korea border is a hotbed of activity for North Koreans looking to escape the clutches of an authoritarian government..
Italy arrests Iranian spies smuggling weapons
Iran’s steadily progressing nuclear program is top of the terrorist/espionage pops and it comes as no surprise that the country’s got its spies on the hunt for weapons and nuclear materials to import into Iran illegally.
In a nutshell, Iran is under an international UN arms embargo, so they’re having a tough time getting their hands on…
Obama open about U.S. Intelligence ‘screw-up’
On December 25, 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was allowed to board Delta flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, even though he had explosives, which he planned to detonate en route to Detroit, sewn into…
Former spy arrested in Israel for breaking parole
Mordechai Vanunu, once a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who served 18 years in prison for espionage against Israel, was arrested on Monday for violating the terms of his parole, which…
Ahmadinejad indignant in Sawyer interview
Diane Sawyer, anchor for ABC’s “World News,” interviewed Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Copenhagen, Denmark, after he attended the UN’s climate change conference. From an espionage perspective, Iran’s been…
Iran to Charge 3 U.S. Hikers with Espionage
It’s official, the three U.S. citizen hikers who were apprehended just inside the Iranian border in July, are being accused of espionage and may face trial in Iran. Does anybody actually think backpackers Shane Bauer, Sarah…
British intel helps thwart terror attack on NY subw ...
9/11 may seem a distant memory, but as the recent arrest of Najibullah Zazi – an airport shuttle bus driver with plans to detonate homemade bombs on the New York subway – shows, Al Qaeda still has its eye on the Big Apple. It turns out…
FBI exposes U.S. spy for Israel
It seems that the FBI has caught former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette red-handed. As a result of an undercover sting operation, during which Nozette accepted $11,000 in exchange for classified U.S. information, he…
Son of notorious CIA double agent pleads guilty
Earlier this year, it was discovered that the son of the highest-ranking CIA operative ever to be convicted of spying for the other side, was helping his imprisoned father to continue collaborating with the Russians. The father – Harold Nicholson – was…
Reiss guilty of nuclear espionage?
The plot thickens in the case of Clotilde Reiss, whom the Iranian ambassador to Paris believes is guilty of nuclear espionage. Ambassador Seyyed Mehdi Mirabutalebi was interviewed by a French daily newspaper…
Hacker hunter turns bad
Albert Gonzalez once used his wily computer skills to help the U.S. government track down hackers. Now it seems he’s crossed over to the other side, where instead of spying to protect U.S. citizens, he’s been spying to steal millions…
Iran: French ‘spy’ out on bail
Clotilde Reiss, a French teacher accused of spying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections, was released on bail yesterday after spending a month and a half in Tehran’s now infamous Evin prison. Just shy of her 24th birthday…
Spying v. Intelligence
As we’re sure you’ve noticed, lots of the items we post here have to do with pretty serious stuff. Being imprisoned for espionage in North Korea or Iran – whether you are guilty or not – is no joke. Neither are the terrorist plots that…