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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 British Spies?
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 Revealed
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 of…
Russian Spy Infiltrates Czech Military
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 now…
In China, Telco/Internet Companies Forced to Spy
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 companies…
Former spy arrested in Israel for breaking parole
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 has military ai ...
Iran 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 espionage
When 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 China
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…
Prague expels spies; Russia retaliates
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
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…
Lebanon: Israeli spy toll increases
On 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 nuclear info
As 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 agents
So 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…
Ex-spies reveal illegal espionage in Colombia
Two former officers of Colombia’s main security and intelligence agency, the Department of Administrative Security (DAS), recently told all to La FM radio station. Turns out the candidates who ran against the then incumbent and current president Alvaro Uribe in 2006 were spied upon by…
Pentagon official leaks secrets to China
Pentagon official James Wilbur Fondren has been charged with sharing classified information with a Chinese secret agent. Fondren, once an air force lieutenant colonel, has been serving as…
Ex-NATO Rep Admits to Spying on Georgia for Russia
Vakhtang Maysa, who used to be Georgia’s representative to NATO, was arrested by the Georgian Internal Ministry and has allegedly confessed to spying on…
U.S. Rep Accused of Helping Alleged AIPAC Spies See ...
Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat whose potentially compromising 2005 telephone conversation with a suspected Israeli agent was secretly recorded, has asked that the Department of Justice release…
British Agent Loses Drug Intelligence in Handbag
For most females, a handbag is a veritable extension of the body, but that doesn’t mean they never get lost or accidentally left behind – probably something an undercover British female agent should have considered before traipsing across South America with a USB stick chock-full of intelligence in her purse.
The Sunday Times reported this weekend that…
India Penetrated by Foreign Intelligence Agencies
A former chief of India’s external intelligence agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), recently announced that counterintelligence ops in India have not been successful in shutting out the efforts of foreign intelligence agencies in India. Admissions such as this are rare, especially given that this one involves the surprising fact that even the Prime Minister…
Russia Accuses U.S. Base of Spying
This Friday, April 3, the United States was accused by the Russian state television channel Rossiya of using its only air base in Central Asia as a cover for a big espionage operation whose focus is China and Russia. The accusation came with the teaser of a documentary about U.S. intelligence ops at Manas base in…
Still No Parole for Israeli Spy Convicted in 1998
Israel does not suffer spies lightly. Over a decade has passed since Israeli spy and businessman Nahum Manbar was convicted of treason. He put Israel’s national security in danger by selling potentially harmful info and materials to enemy state Iran, both of which could have helped Iran advance their chemical weaponry.
Manbar was sentenced to 16 years…
Leaked Report: U.S. intelligence failures hinder pr ...
A confidential, novel-length report compiled by the RAND national defense research institute for U.S. Joint Forces Command has been leaked to the public, exposing failed U.S. intelligence as a major hindrance to the counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan.
The report – based on dozens of interviews with British, Canadian, Dutch, and U.S. army, intelligence and diplomatic officials –…
NSA Joins Facebook for Spies
Baltimore Sun’s David Wood reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has finally, several months after launch, decided to join a whopping 16 other US intelligence agencies in signing up for A-Space, the secure Facebook for intelligence analysts. You guessed it (or even if you didn’t), the ‘A’ stands for ‘analyst.’
You know that social networking has…