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Obama Forces U.S. Spy Chief to Reti...

On Thursday May 20, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair resigned from his post as head of the sixteen agencies that together create the U.S. intelligence community. Although his resignation was originally attributed to his security...

Reiss guilty of nuclear espionage?

Clotilde Reiss in courtThe 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...

French spy escapes captivity in Som...

Mogadishu, Somalia If you listen to the rumors, it seems that this security agent paid extra close attention when trained in the art of escape. One of two French agents kidnapped last month by Somali insurgents, he earned his freedom by killing three of...

Iran insists charges against Reiss ...

It comes as no surprise that Iran thinks France’s official perspective regarding Clotilde Reiss is “biased and irrational.” France managed to win her temporary release, at the hefty bail fee of $300,000, but calling for Tehran to drop the charges against Reiss altogether has met with indignation. Iran insists that Ms. Reiss is not a political …

Iran: French ‘spy’ out on bail

Clotilde ReissClotilde 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...

Spy charges against French woman ba...

Clotilde ReissThe 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...

Iran arrests French woman for ‘sp...

Tehran AirportFrance’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...

Spy flick to feature Chanel head de...

karl_lagerfeldIt'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...

Cyber Spies Strike Greenpeace

Spies have infiltrated Greenpeace. Espionage comes in many forms – and government or insurgent intelligence operatives need not always play a role, although corporate spies sometimes come from a government background, as in the recent spy flick Duplicity.

This time, Greenpeace has allegedly been targeted by EDF, the huge French nuclear energy company whose initials …

Sexspionage: Talking about Wonder W...

Former spies and spy lovers alike will converge in Raleigh, North Carolina from March 25 to 27, 2009 for the sixth annual International Spy Conference. This year’s intriguing conference theme “Sexspionage: Famous Women Spies and the Ancient Art of Seduction” will explore the careers of some of the most successful female spies in the world.…

20 foreign agencies spying on Brita...

According to a UK government security document dated January 19, Great Britain is currently under the surveillance of spies from 20 foreign intelligence agencies. The report singles out Russia and China as having the most active espionage operations in the country, but NATO allies like France and Germany are also listed among those trying to get …