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August 14, 2009
Sudan president demotes top spy chi...
Salah Gosh, head of Sudan’s security and intelligence agency since 2002, will be moving to a presidential advisory position bearing significantly less power, as per a decree issued by Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Gosh has been in...
August 13, 2009
Taliban’s drug money funding over...
So how much drug money does the Taliban rely on for survival and ops? Apparently not that much, according to a Senate report sharing the findings of CIA and DIA investigations, but...
August 12, 2009
Sri Lanka spies battle on against T...
After the Sri Lankan government put a stop, in May, to a 25-year war waged by the rebel militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country’s intelligence ops are now focused on making sure those militants trying...
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 10, 2009
UK spy chief says British intellige...
Allegations are mounting – have MI5 and MI6 agents been involved in the extreme interrogation and torture of terror suspects abroad? It would not be shocking, given the threat of terrorism, the pressure to stop it in its tracks, and...
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...
August 6, 2009
Spy school: girls only!
Alright, ladies, this is it – your chance to pick up the skills that’ll leave you as seductive and spy-tastic as any of the Bond girls. The Stiletto Spy School, with training sessions in New York and Vegas, plus custom events if...
August 5, 2009
American reporters freed from N. Ko...
So, what happens when two American journalists are arrested in a communist country in which the U.S. has no diplomatic presence, and – following accusations of espionage – are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in...
August 4, 2009
U.S. hikers accused of working for ...
According to a Tehran television news program, local Iranian police are now accusing the three Americans arrested in Iran on Friday of being U.S. spies in the employ of the CIA. Shocked? Of course not. The accusation is...
August 3, 2009
Iran to accuse 3 U.S. hikers of spy...
Three American hikers who accidentally crossed into Iran from Kurdish Iraq while on a hiking trip in the resort town of Ahmed Awaa were surrounded and arrested by Iranian troops on Friday. There is no indication that the three were working as spies, but given Iran’s...
August 2, 2009
N. Korea accuses U.S. and S. Korea ...
The state-run Korean Central News Agency recently issued a government statement saying that the U.S. and South Korea have conducted 180 spy flights over North Korea’s airspace in the month of July, Bloomberg reports. North Korea refers to this campaign as a massive mobilization of...