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U.S. getting soft on Cuban spies?

Cuban Five protestOn 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...

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...

Australian domestic spy chief speak...

Australian flagDavid Irvine, who for many years headed Australia’s ultra secretive foreign intelligence agency (ASIS), recently shifted into a domestic intelligence role, and now – 4 months in – he’s started to talk about where the country’s at. As head of ASIO, Australia’s internal spy agency, Irvine is expected to...

Moroccan-born ‘Belgian spy’ get...

Abdelkadir BellirajAlthough he claims that his contact with terrorist organizations the world over was all part of his undercover work for the Belgian government, the Moroccan courts believe otherwise and have jailed Abdelkader Belliraj (51) for the remainder of his life. He has been convicted of leading a terrorist...

Guinea pig spy flick flops

G-Force guinea pig spyG-Force reviews are out and the consensus is: cool idea, great visual execution, star-studded cast, but the movie falls short of real innovation and interest. Just in case you’re not familiar with the concept: A team of three guinea pigs plus one mole are trained as federal spies. They are given...

UAE tries to spy via BlackBerrys

Spies on your BlackBerry?BlackBerry users in the UAE recently found out that a regular software update they were encouraged to download by the state-controlled service provider Etisalat was really a spy program that once installed, would give the government access to...

U.S. spy chief in favor of less sec...

Dennis BlairDirector of National Intelligence Dennis Blair addressed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this Wednesday, July 22 and it seems he’s looking to involve the private sector in intelligence operations. This is an indication of a few things: 1. the recognition of the need to bring in...

25 yrs after death, British double ...

Anthony BluntA 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...

Germany gears up for Chinese spy sc...

While China’s busy denying its hand in the decades-long economic espionage case that recently came to light in the U.S., Germany is ramping up to deal with a spy onslaught from the Chinese. According to the widely read German weekly Der Spiegel, a German intelligence agency has created the “China Task Force,” whose purpose is …

Deutsche Bank spying on board membe...

Deutsche Bank spiesGermany’s biggest bank – Deutsche Bank – may face criminal charges for spying on board members who were suspected of being liberal with confidential company details. There’s also been talk of the bank spying on outspoken shareholder Michael Bohndorf. It is now up to state prosecutors...

China says U.S. lying about economi...

China stealing secret data from the U.S.?Last Thursday, July 16, Chinese-born engineer Dongfan ‘Greg’ Chung was convicted in the first economic espionage trial in the United States. China’s response to the implied accusation of being...

Need a light?

This is a lighter...or is it? So you won't be able to pick up a girl outside a bar by offering to light her cigarette with this lighter, but you may be able to pick up some incriminating evidence for later. Covering all the stops, this generic-looking...

Spies subsidize Chinese summer camp

High schoolers studying ChineseThe new approach in the U.S. intelligence community seems to be – let’s get them started early, real early. Plans for a ROTC-style program for college students with spy aspirations were announced recently, and now there’s news of the National Security...

China-born engineer guilty of econo...

Boeing LogoAt the beginning of June, the first economic espionage trial in the United States got under way. Today, about six weeks later, the verdict is in: an engineer who once worked for Boeing has...

Iran: nuclear weapons in 6 months?!

Time is running outAs spy agencies all over the West hazard guesses as to when Iran will officially join the ranks of nuclear world powers, a report recently issued by Stern, a weekly Hamburg publication, has sped up Iran’s trajectory substantially. Stern gives Iran 6 months, upon the...