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Are spies on the heels of WikiLeaks...

It appears likely that Australian spy agencies tailed WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange, but as he travels around the world, hiding out and leaking classified, sensitive information about various governments’ activities, are other intelligence agencies tapping into...

UK Foreign Secretary Too Open About...

Not too long ago, the official word was that MI5 and MI6, the UK’s top secret intelligence agencies, didn’t exist. Spies were certainly never admitted to in arenas accessible to the public, and spy agencies were only 'rumors.' But UK Foreign Secretary William Hague...

Israel’s Intel-Gathering Base Rev...

CIA, MI6, Mossad – organizations with name recognition, with clout. But what about Unit 8200, the British Government Communications Headquarters and the American National Security Agency? A little less familiar perhaps, a lot less glamorous certainly, but these signal deciphering bodies are no less important. Even more interesting is...

Spy v. Spy in Iran

While Ahmadinejad would have you believe that internally everything is hunky dory, and the only problems Iran has are with the meddling West, an August 23 shoot-out between two different intelligence units whose interests are at odds, indicates otherwise.

As per a DEBKAfile exclusive, members of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) clashed with plain clothes members …

Russian Spy Infiltrates Czech Milit...

Turns out the U.S. is not the only country targeted by post-Cold War Russian spies. A Czech newspaper just reported that in 2009, three Czech generals were forced to leave the army as a result of the activities of a Russian spy who infiltrated their respective offices.

The Czech Republic, once a Soviet satellite state and …

In China, Telco/Internet Companies ...

While in other countries, government places limitations on businesses to help protect citizens’ privacy, China seems hell-bent on doing exactly the opposite…that is legally enforcing telco and internet companies to spy on users and disclose private information to the government.

Indeed, China is on the verge of passing a law that would require telecommunications and internet …

Former spy arrested in Israel for b...

Mordechai Vanunu, once a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who served 18 years in prison for espionage against Israel, was arrested on Monday for violating the terms of his parole, which...

Proof that Iran’s nuclear program...

Nuclear BlastIran swears up and down that its ongoing uranium enrichment is strictly for the civilian benefits of attaining nuclear power, but the rest of the world doesn’t exactly believe this front. And with good reason – bogus...

Hilton marked by corporate espionag...

hiltonworldwideWhen Hilton launched its new lifestyle brand hotel Denizen in April 2009, Starwood freaked, and brought suit against Hilton for “the clearest imaginable case of corporate espionage, theft of...

Trial begins for U.S. informant to ...

James FondrenYou’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...

Prague expels spies; Russia retalia...

Czech Republic v. Russia?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...

Surrender in Colombia spy scandal

President UribeLast 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...

Lebanon: Israeli spy toll increases

Lebanese FlagOn Tuesday, Lebanon’s As-Safir newspaper published a detailed update on the 22 most recently arrested ‘Israeli spies’ – part of the spy hunt that has been going on since April of this year. In case you were wondering, when...

U.S. gov accidentally leaks secret ...

Sensitive, not classifiedAs per today’s NY Times, the U.S. government inadvertently web-published a confidential report on nuclear sites and programs, which included specific location of Uranium stocks. Whoops. Blunders like this are not unheard of – especially in the UK where...

Terrorists use Facebook to recruit ...

Facebook LogoSo while the FBI is using Facebook and other online marketing tools to help catch fugitives and find missing children, terrorists have decided there may be something in these sites for...