Within the last week, came word from Iran of the arrests of 12 purported CIA “assets” or local recruits, who stand accused of espionage targeting that country’s nuclear program and industrial sector. Reports surfaced that Iran, in conjunction with Hezbollah, had uncovered supposed CIA informants, including a ring operating out of a Pizza Hut. Heydar Moslehi, …
By Daria Carmon
The CIA spy network in Lebanon has sustained severe blows in recent months, according to accounts given to the Associated Press by current and onetime U.S. officials, commencing with Hezbollah’s apprehension of two American spies. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who has led Hezbollah for many years, took to the airwaves in June to brag …
A recent series of articles penned by reporter Sean Naylor for the Virginia-based publication Army Times, recounts the repeated espionage and counterterrorism activities in which the CIA and American military special operations teams were engaged in Somalia, dating back eight years. The sources for the revelations were predominantly anonymous and are now or were at one …
By Daria Carmon
The trial of Hanjuan Jin, an American woman who held the position of senior software engineer at Motorola, Inc., and who is suspected of appropriating trade secrets that would in all likelihood been used by the Chinese military, commenced earlier this month. While Beth Gaus, counsel for the Chinese-born Jin, admitted Jin had …
By Daria Carmon
During the past week, Kuwait figured prominently in a spate of spying incidents that have engulfed the region. A Syrian national was taken into custody by the Kuwaiti Coast Guard off the coast of Kuwait City on suspicion of espionage, according to the daily Annahar. Questioned before his arrest, his explanation for his …
By Daria Carmon
Taiwan’s Control Yuan, the government body responsible for keeping an eye on the actions of public officials and agencies, issued its findings this month in the case of a onetime general who was found guilty of being a Chinese spy and received a life sentence from the Military High Court in July of …
Formal charges of attempted espionage were brought against U.S. Army Specialist William Colton Millay earlier this month, subsequent to his arrest last month at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, located in the Anchorage area of Alaska. Millay, a military policeman, had been the subject of a joint investigation by the FBI and Army Counterintelligence special agents. It is …
A report submitted by U.S. intelligence agencies to Congress earlier this month held no punches in charging that the Chinese and Russians engage in cyber spying and theft targeting U.S. technology and economic secrets, which is carried out by both intelligence agencies and corporate hackers, and is regarded by their governments as national policy. The report …
More and more, foreign spies are turning their attention to America’s relatively inconspicuous underwater drone fleet A number of military counterintelligence experts have claimed a notable recent increase in old school espionage and cyber spying aimed at gathering information concerning American autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), particularly by unspecified Asian countries, the goal being to undermine the …
A Canadian scientist born in China named Kexue Huang, who has worked for two giants in the American agricultural industry, last month pleaded guilty to economic espionage and theft charges in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis. He admitted to passing on American industry secrets concerning a pesticide and a newly developed food product to the Chinese …
The arrest of two accused Russian spies in Germany earlier in October harkens back to the waning days of the Cold War, in the account given by the publication Der Spiegel. Whereas the German prosecutor’s office declined to identify the couple as alleged Russian spies, stating only that they were thought to have served as operatives …
By Daria Carmon
In 2010, indictments were issued against 11 members of a Russian espionage ring operating in America, and they were charged with working for the SVR, the Russian Federation counterpart of the infamous KGB. Four agents had posed as Canadians and the Canadian Press published an article in mid October of this year on …
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Ekaterina “Katia” Zatuliveter insists that she is not a Russian spy operating in the UK. Russia also insists that she was not their spy. MI5, the British internal intelligence service insists that she was working for Russian intelligence and wants her deported from the UK. Zatuliveter is currently fighting in the …
By Daria Carmon
The African country of Zambia has alleged that three Czech men are guilty of espionage, reportedly taking them into custody on October 12th. The Zambia Daily Mail disclosed their names, ages, and occupations as Michal Vebr, a 45 year old welder, Jiri Cetel, a technician of the same age, and a carpenter named …