By Daria Carmon
A young Libyan woman, operating under the codename Nomidia, played an inestimable role in the success of the NATO bombing campaign against the Muammar Gaddafi regime by providing information on sites of weapons storage, intelligence much needed of course in pinpointing targets. Nomidia, an engineer whose true identity has been withheld, traced her …
Rose Greenhow and Elizabeth Van Lew were but two of hundreds of women who were employed as spies for the Confederate and Union causes during the War Between the States, but their exploits are noteworthy nonetheless. Rose O’Neal Greenhow had become a leading figure in Washington, D.C. social circles by virtue of a rich, well- known …
By Daria Carmon
This week Stewart David Nozette, a noted onetime government scientist, pled guilty to one charge of attempted espionage, specifically endeavoring to turn over top secret information to Israel. The classified data encompassed satellites, early warning systems, and communications intelligence. Nozette took a plea deal whose terms included a 13 year prison sentence and …
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 …
By Daria Carmon
MI5 files declassified by the British spy organization just last month, chronicle the espionage career of German operative Werner Plack and subsequent search for him during the Nazi era, and the account sounds like the plot of a movie, somewhat fitting since he had once been a film extra. Plack, elegant, charming, and …
Iran’s judiciary has handed down a death sentence in the case of Majid Jamali Fashi, who was found guilty of killing prominent nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi last year, and of acting as a Mossad agent. Jamali Fashi had been charged in the bombing outside Ali Mohammadi’s house at Iran’s judiciary has handed down a death …