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July 29, 2010
Texas Girl Arrested for Attempted S...
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 …
September 21, 2009
Famous female Russian spy dies at 9...
When it comes to infamous spy couples, most of us think Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, but even though Mikhail and Elizaveta Mukasei had somewhat less eventful deaths, they were easily one of the world’s most notorious...
August 27, 2009
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...
August 17, 2009
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...
August 16, 2009
New spy show to air on FX
Don’t expect another typical spy show here, folks. "Archer," an animated half-hour comedy launching this fall on FX, may be set at an international spy agency (ISIS), but you’ll find it’s more about the relationships between the agents than the spy missions. It seems that when global...
August 6, 2009
Spy school: girls only!
Alright, ladies, this is it – your chance to pick up the skills that’ll leave you as seductive and spy-tastic as any of the Bond girls. The Stiletto Spy School, with training sessions in New York and Vegas, plus custom events if...
August 5, 2009
American reporters freed from N. Ko...
So, what happens when two American journalists are arrested in a communist country in which the U.S. has no diplomatic presence, and – following accusations of espionage – are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in...
August 3, 2009
Iran to accuse 3 U.S. hikers of spy...
Three American hikers who accidentally crossed into Iran from Kurdish Iraq while on a hiking trip in the resort town of Ahmed Awaa were surrounded and arrested by Iranian troops on Friday. There is no indication that the three were working as spies, but given Iran’s...
July 12, 2009
Spy charges against French woman ba...
The first time we got wind of the French woman who was recently arrested in Iran for spying, not too many details of her circumstances had yet been shared with the public – not even her name. Slowly, more information is...
July 6, 2009
Iran arrests French woman for ‘sp...
France’s foreign ministry has appealed to the European Union for support in pressuring Iran to release yet another foreigner accused by the Iranians of spying. The French woman, an academic by profession, had been in Iran for...
June 19, 2009
Cuban spies plead for house arrest ...
Denied bail because they were deemed to be a flight risk, the Cuban spy couple arrested on June 4 have requested they be...
June 11, 2009
No bail for Cuban spies
Yesterday, a U.S. federal judge denied bail to a retired State Department employee and his wife, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers, who were both recently...
June 9, 2009
Cuban spies shock unsuspecting neig...
On Thursday, June 4, a retired State Department analyst with top secret security clearance and his wife were arrested by FBI agents on charges of fraud, conspiracy and acting as...
June 6, 2009
Spy flick to feature Chanel head de...
It's not often that folks mention spies and haute couture in the same sentence, but here it is: Haute Couture icon Karl Lagerfeld (the designer at the helm of the fashion house Chanel) has agreed to voice for one of the characters in...
May 15, 2009
Saberi leaves Iran in aftermath of ...
Released from prison and finally free to leave Iran, Roxana Saberi is making her way back home to the US with a recuperative stop in laid back Vienna. She’s not yet ready to speak at length with the press about...