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July 26, 2011

Iranian Doctoral Student Being Trie...

By Daria Carmon

Omid Kokabee, an Iranian Ph.D. candidate in physics at the University of Texas in Austin, is standing trial on espionage charges in his homeland, after being held in custody since the end of January or February. It is believed he was picked up at the Tehran airport en route to continuing his graduate …

July 15, 2011

Prominent Czech Researcher Exposed ...

Dr. Jiri Bartek, an esteemed Czech cancer researcher, was an operative for the StB, his country’s secret intelligence agency, during his tenure at the London based Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the 1980s, according to intelligence papers that have recently come to light in Prague. Known by the code name Raki, Bartek exploited his researcher position …

July 11, 2011

Georgia President’s Photograp...

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 …

July 5, 2011

Russian Double Agent Who Brought Do...

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 …