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January 22, 2010
U.S. official gets 3 years for help...
In September of 2009, an ex-Pentagon official with top security clearance was put on trial for knowingly sharing military secrets with an agent of a foreign government - the Chinese government to be specific. James Fondren, 62...
December 30, 2009
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...
December 4, 2009
Imprisoned spy denounces deal with ...
Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel and imprisoned in 1987, has spoken out against the deal Israel is currently making with the terrorist group Hamas in order to...
October 13, 2009
Life sentence reduced for Cuban spy
Today, as per schedule, a U.S. Federal Judge decreased the sentence of a convicted Cuban spy from life to just under 22 years. 50-year-old Antonio Guerrero is one of the Cuban Five, a group of Cuban spies convicted in...
August 31, 2009
Son of notorious CIA double agent p...
Earlier this year, it was discovered that the son of the highest-ranking CIA operative ever to be convicted of spying for the other side, was helping his imprisoned father to continue collaborating with the Russians. The father – Harold Nicholson – was...
July 31, 2009
U.S. getting soft on Cuban spies?
On October 13, 2009, U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard will issue new sentences for Fernando González, Luis Medina and Antonio Guerrero, three members of the Cuban Five spies. The latter two have been serving life sentences and...
July 12, 2009
Spy charges against French woman ba...
The first time we got wind of the French woman who was recently arrested in Iran for spying, not too many details of her circumstances had yet been shared with the public – not even her name. Slowly, more information is...
July 3, 2009
Former CIA spy laments Milan rendit...
An ex-U.S. spy – once a CIA station chief in Italy – recently spoke to the Italian paper Il Giornale about his involvement in a 2003 CIA rendition heist, which took a Muslim cleric (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr) suspected of terrorist involvement from his home in...
July 1, 2009
Guantanamo inmate to be released
Abdulrahim Al Janko, a Guantanamo detainee, was picked up by the U.S. military in 2002 in an Afghan prison renowned for its extremely grim conditions. He was purportedly suspected by the Taliban and Al Qaeda of being an American spy...
June 11, 2009
No bail for Cuban spies
Yesterday, a U.S. federal judge denied bail to a retired State Department employee and his wife, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers, who were both recently...
June 8, 2009
12 years in N. Korea prison for 2 U...
Arrested in March for ‘spying’ on and entering North Korea illegally, two female American journalists – after a 5-day trial – were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for committing...
May 27, 2009
Berlin: Spy convicted of helping Ir...
In October 2008, an Iranian-Canadian businessman, now 61, who spied on behalf of Germany (codename Sinbad) was arrested on charges of supporting Tehran’s missile program. He has just been convicted and...
May 13, 2009
Belgian spy chief warns against Gua...
Although President Obama has promised to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo, one small detail remains to be worked out – where are the 200+ Guantanamo inmates going to go? Obama has been approaching...
May 4, 2009
Vigil Held in N. Dakota for Alleged...
Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian reporter recently convicted of espionage in Iran after a 1-day trial that was held behind closed doors, has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, April 21. On Saturday, hundreds gathered on the...
April 30, 2009
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 …