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April 28, 2010
CIA to Improve Intelligence Gatheri...
Just about everything about the CIA is classified – including its budget – but occasionally we get a little insight into how it’s spending its money: This week, the agency announced plans to pour millions of dollars over the next five years into improving intelligence gathering techniques, technologies and communications.
Number 1 on the agenda is …
April 23, 2010
N Korea’s assassination plans sta...
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 …
January 20, 2010
China poised to win cyber war?
Google shocked the Chinese government – not to mention all us gmail users – by announcing on January 12 that the company had suffered a serious cyber security breach, likely perpetrated by China. Encouraged by Google’s bold step, other companies are now coming forward, and so we see...
January 8, 2010
White House issues report on Xmas s...
January 7, 2010
Obama open about U.S. Intelligence ...
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...
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 23, 2009
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...
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...
September 2, 2009
Taliban successfully targets Afghan...
Today’s Taliban suicide bombing, which exploded through a crowd outside a mosque in Mehterlam, a city 60 miles east of Kabul, killed Afghanistan’s deputy chief of intelligence onsite. The attack left over 20 others dead as well and...