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Reluctant Spy Reluctantly Prepares ...
John Kiriakou, author of “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror”, pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and was sentenced to 30 months in Federal Prison.
Initially, Kiriakou thought he was assisting in an FBI investigation, and only too happy to offer his services. About an …
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...
Mussolini once in cahoots with MI5
In 1917, when Mussolini was the journalist in charge of the newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia, he was on the payroll of British Intelligence, reports the historian Peter Martland of Cambridge University. Might sound hard to believe, but...
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...
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...
CIA out to sabotage ex-employee’s...
Stephen Lee used to work for the CIA as an operations manager. He now blogs for The Washington Examiner, and is getting the sneaky suspicion that his former employer is out to make his life in his new career a little difficult.
“I believe I am being subjected to a campaign of low-level harassment,” said …
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...
Iran: Alleged Spy Finally Released
In a move that has given Obama, Clinton and the Saberi family immense cause for relief, Iran reduced and suspended...
U.S. Reporter convicted of spying i...
Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist from North Dakota who was recently sentenced to 8 years in prison in Tehran for espionage, went on a hunger strike on Tuesday.
Her father Reza appeared before an Iranian court yesterday, where he was questioned about Roxana’s strike, but what he shared comes as no surprise. She is refusing to …
U.S. Female Reporters Face Trial in...
Over a month ago, on March 17, two US journalists working for the San Francisco-based CurrentTV, which is owned by former VP Al Gore, were arrested by Korean patrolmen for having allegedly crossed the China/North Korea border illegally. They were in the area on an assignment pertaining to North Korean refugees.
North Korea did not share …
8 Years in Iranian Prison for Alleg...
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was convicted of espionage against Iran in a sentence announced by Tehran on Saturday. The verdict carries with it an eight-year prison term and was reached after a closed-door trial in Iran that lasted exactly one day.
The U.S. isn’t keeping quiet, but how Iran will respond to federal pressure is yet …
U.S.-Iranian Reporter Held in Iran ...
U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi, who is a dual American-Iranian citizen, was detained in a prison in Tehran in late January. Now, over two months later, she has been officially charged with espionage. Deputy Prosecutor Hassan Haddad says Saberi was “carrying out spying activities under the guise of being a reporter.” She has been accused of gathering …