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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...
October 1, 2009
Lebanese who won’t spy on Hezboll...
The Lebanese living in the United Arab Emirates are starting to pay a high price for harking from the same country as the terrorist organization...
September 29, 2009
Two ‘spies’ publicly executed i...
In Somalia, two men were executed on Monday by a 10-person firing squad. They were – according to Al-Shabaab, the militant Islamic group ruling large areas...
September 23, 2009
More and more spies sent to Afghani...
As the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan drags on, the number of intelligence officials deployed to the country continues to grow, and it seems now that...
September 22, 2009
Trial begins for U.S. informant to ...
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...
September 18, 2009
Colombia’s spy agency to close it...
In the continually unfolding scandal plaguing Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency DAS, all signs point to guilty. New evidence seems to confirm time and again not only that the intelligence agency carried out an illegal...
September 4, 2009
In Russia, soaring surveillance fig...
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...
September 3, 2009
MI5 manhunt for dead Nazi revealed
A hitherto classified MI5 file, finally released a couple days ago, reveals that the British secret services were, for a long time, chasing after a dead Nazi. Seems like a productive use of taxes folks, and also a classic plot-line for a...
September 2, 2009
Taliban successfully targets Afghan...
Today’s Taliban suicide bombing, which exploded through a crowd outside a mosque in Mehterlam, a city 60 miles east of Kabul, killed Afghanistan’s deputy chief of intelligence onsite. The attack left over 20 others dead as well and...
September 1, 2009
Arab Israeli feeding intel to Hezbo...
Rawi Sultani, an Arab Israeli belonging to the same gym as the Israeli Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, has been accused of collaborating with Hezbollah plans to assassinate Ashkenazi. It is believed by Israeli officials that...
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...
August 26, 2009
French spy escapes captivity in Som...
If you listen to the rumors, it seems that this security agent paid extra close attention when trained in the art of escape. One of two French agents kidnapped last month by Somali insurgents, he earned his freedom by killing three of...
August 19, 2009
Prague expels spies; Russia retalia...
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...
August 11, 2009
Spying v. Intelligence
As we’re sure you’ve noticed, lots of the items we post here have to do with pretty serious stuff. Being imprisoned for espionage in North Korea or Iran – whether you are guilty or not – is no joke. Neither are the terrorist plots that...
August 7, 2009
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...