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Finnish-Born Political Scientist Faces Espionage Ch ...
A Finnish-born professor of international politics is being charged by Danish authorities with helping a Russian espionage organization. According to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET, the Russian diplomats whom Kivimäki met with were spies. Kivimäki said that the Russians he interacted with behaved like diplomats and not spies.
TWO RUSSIAN PROFESSORS TO BE TRIED AS CHINESE SPIES
A pair of professors on the faculty of the State Military Mechanical University in St. Petersburg will soon stand trial in that city for espionage, in what promises to be one of the most noteworthy spy cases there since Alexander Nikitin was tried in the late 1990s on allegations of supplying top secret information to Norwegian…
Georgia President’s Photographer, Four Others ...
The official photographer for Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Irakli Gedenidze ,and four other suspects, were taken into custody by Georgian authorities on suspicion of working for a foreign government. Gedenidze’s wife Natia, Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs photographer Giorgi Abdaladze and European PressPhoto Agency photographer Zurab Qurtsikidze were identified as the other arrestees, while an unnamed…
Russian Double Agent Who Brought Down Sleeper Ring ...
Huffington Post Op Ed 6/30/10
Huffington Post Op Ed 7/8/10
Colonel Alexander Poteyev, the Russian double agent instrumental in the arrests of ten Russian spies in the United States last June 27, was convicted of treason and desertion in absentia by the Moscow District Military Court, which handed down a prison sentence of 25 years. The conviction of…
Official Charged with Betrayal Flees Russia
By Daria Carmon
In the wake of the exposure of a Russian spy ring in the U.S, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has begun a campaign against the man who is supposedly responsible for the failure. Aleksandr Poteyev, a former Russian intelligence officer, has been accused in Moscow of betraying the spy ring and faces up to…
Georgia Announces Break Up of Alleged Russian Spy R ...
The Georgian government announced on Friday that it had arrested 13 people accused of spying for Russia’s armed forces. The accused include six military pilots, a naval radio operator, the founder of a non-governmental group called the Globalization Institute, and four Russian citizens. Most are accused of providing Russia with information about Georgia’s combat readiness. The…
Dead Russian Spy: Accidental Drowning or Murder?
52-year-old General Yuri Ivanov’s decomposing body washed up on the shores of southern Turkey on August 12. On August 30, an official Russian eulogy reported that he had drowned while swimming “several days ago.” Various sources indicate he had been missing for ten days when his body was turned into the authorities by Turkish fisherman from…
Texas Girl Arrested for Attempted Smuggling to Russ ...
A 24-year-old Texas beautician was arrested on July 15 after trying to smuggle three night-vision rifle scopes into Russia aboard a JFK-Moscow flight in March. Although rifle scopes, which allow riflemen to see more precisely at further distances, are widely available in the U.S., exporting them without a license is illegal.
Anna Fermanova, born in Latvia but…
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…
A Russian-U.S. Spy Swap: What’s the Rush?
By Haggai Carmon
At this very moment, there are growing rumors about plans for a prisoner swap that would return ten suspected Russian spies to Russia, in exchange for an imprisoned Russian military researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was convicted of espionage in 2004. The rumors also suggest that the U.S. has compiled a list of 11 Russian…
The Russian Sleeper Spy Ring in the U.S. — Pr ...
By Haggai Carmon
This week the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York filed criminal complaints against ten alleged Russian sleeper agents in the U.S. Although the cases concern U.S. national security, the sleepers were not indicted for espionage but rather for lesser charges of money laundering related felonies and for failure to register as foreign agents, under…
Ex-spy shot to death in Moscow
The former Jewish spy Shabtai von Kalmanovic was killed in his car yesterday in Moscow not far from Russian Prime Minister Putin’s office. A triple citizen of Israel, Russia and Lithuania, Kalmanovic spied for…
Famous female Russian spy dies at 97
When it comes to infamous spy couples, most of us think Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, but even though Mikhail and Elizaveta Mukasei had somewhat less eventful deaths, they were easily one of the world’s most notorious…
In Russia, soaring surveillance figures released to ...
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…
Son of notorious CIA double agent pleads guilty
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…
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…
25 yrs after death, British double agent’s memoir ...
A quarter century after his death, Anthony Blunt – a British spy secretly working for the Russians – reveals some of the details of his clandestine life in a 30,000-word manuscript, which he penned after his very public exposure as a…
Goldman code spy out on bail
Sergey Aleynikov – a Russian computer programmer who started working at Goldman Sachs in May 2007 and was recently accused of stealing code from the company – was released on $750,000 bail. In addition to…
New spy drama: The Spy and the Sparrow
Here’s something of note – an espionage thriller that doesn’t have the stamp of Hollywood all over it. The Spy and the Sparrow, part spy movie part intense family drama, premiered recently at the Seattle International Film Festival, which makes sense…
Russians spy on German industry
The top dog in Germany’s domestic counter-espionage department reported this past weekend that Russian spies continue to target the German energy sector to steal secrets that will…
Europe: More expulsions follow spy accusations
In what is seemingly a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry has asked NATO’s top representatives in Moscow to leave Russia. Just recently, two Russian diplomats…
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…
Russian diplomats kicked out of NATO – Spy Sc ...
Two Brussels-based Russian diplomats, suspected of being undercover intelligence operatives, have been…
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…
Angelina Jolie to Play CIA Agent / Russian Spy in M ...
Can’t get enough of those CIA agent spy dramas? Well, you’ve already got something to look forward to in 2010, when Columbia Pictures’ espionage thriller Salt is due to hit the big screen. There’s already been a lot of chatter about this movie, and it hasn’t even started shooting. Filming’s due to begin on Long Island, NY…