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December 1, 2009
Pakistan spy agency gunning down it...
According to Kamran Shafi -- a notably vocal critic of Pakistan’s military and security department -- those he criticizes want to silence him. Shafi, who once was an army major, is now a newspaper columnist who does not...
November 5, 2009
American spies get time for CIA kid...
On Wednesday, 23 Americans and two Italians were convicted of participating in an extraordinary rendition allegedly carried out by the CIA in Milan in 2003. In a nutshell, the CIA wanted to interrogate a Muslim...
October 28, 2009
Venezuela detains Colombian spies
Late yesterday, Venezuela announced the capture of an unspecified number of Colombian security agents allegedly “committing acts of espionage” with the intent to...
October 19, 2009
CIA turns to open-source intel
Web 2.0 means that there’s a plethora of user-generated information out there to monitor – blog posts, tweets, commentary on news pieces, videos, reviews of books, etc. But the CIA’s not interested in any of that harmless chatter, right? Wrong. The investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, In-Q-Tel – which serves...
September 25, 2009
Dems fight to lessen US gov domesti...
The Patriot Act, drawn up and passed within weeks of 9/11, is under review. Three major Patriot Act provisions will expire at the end of the year, and it seems...
September 22, 2009
Trial begins for U.S. informant to ...
You’re a former U.S. Air Force officer, and your local New Orleans furniture salesman asks you to share with him some top secret military information. What do you do? Well, we guess it depends on what you’re being offered in...
September 18, 2009
Colombia’s spy agency to close it...
In the continually unfolding scandal plaguing Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency DAS, all signs point to guilty. New evidence seems to confirm time and again not only that the intelligence agency carried out an illegal...
September 16, 2009
U.S. spy chief reveals spy strategy
Tuesday night, U.S. Intelligence Director Dennis Blair shared with the public his new official spy strategy for U.S. intelligence, which includes more collaboration between the 16 different spy agencies, increased...
September 4, 2009
In Russia, soaring surveillance fig...
In an unprecedented show of transparency – ironically, about something that is carried out in secret – Russia’s Supreme Court has revealed to the public the shocking extent to which the Federal Security Service (FSB) spies on...
August 30, 2009
See through Oz’s new spy HQ
And we do mean literally. Australia is sparing no expense on the new Canberra-based headquarters of its domestic spy agency ASIO, which will be the 2nd largest building in the city. The project’s just begun – tell-tale signs mark...
August 19, 2009
Prague expels spies; Russia retalia...
Russia’s tit-for-tat policy continues with its expulsion of two Czech diplomats yesterday in direct retaliation to Prague’s removal of two Russian diplomats believed by the Czech Republic to be spying. Spying on...
August 14, 2009
Sudan president demotes top spy chi...
Salah Gosh, head of Sudan’s security and intelligence agency since 2002, will be moving to a presidential advisory position bearing significantly less power, as per a decree issued by Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Gosh has been in...
August 12, 2009
Sri Lanka spies battle on against T...
After the Sri Lankan government put a stop, in May, to a 25-year war waged by the rebel militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country’s intelligence ops are now focused on making sure those militants trying...
August 10, 2009
UK spy chief says British intellige...
Allegations are mounting – have MI5 and MI6 agents been involved in the extreme interrogation and torture of terror suspects abroad? It would not be shocking, given the threat of terrorism, the pressure to stop it in its tracks, and...
August 7, 2009
Surrender in Colombia spy scandal
Last Thursday, arrests warrants were issued for 10 former officials of Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency DAS. The 10 are suspected of having spied illegally on people – including judges, journalists and...