Ilir Nazmi Kumbaro, who was once the spy chief in Albania, did not show up earlier this month at Westminster magistrates’ court in London, for his extradition hearing related to six counts of torture and kidnapping brought against him in his homeland, and has disappeared. Among the charges, an accusation of abduction was leveled in the …
Hezbollah took to the airwaves earlier this month, and in a broadcast from the television station al-Manar, identified 10 CIA operatives in Lebanon. Al-Manar reported that those named were CIA officers, who all had been cloaked under diplomatic cover. It further purported that their assignment was the supervision of the spy rings in Lebanon. The station …
Iran divulged the arrest this past week of an Iranian national it claimed was working for American intelligence, specifically, the CIA. State TV reported the Intelligence Ministry account that the purported operative had been furnished with weapons instruction at American bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, and whose assignment entailed supplying false information to the Iranians. The …
GCHQ, the British spy agency known for signal intelligence, posted a puzzle online earlier this month in an effort to not only drum up recruits but assess the code cracking capabilities and measure the technical expertise of these would be agents of the computer age. Visitors to the website, which made no mention of the espionage …
A series of mysterious explosions that have plagued Iran, along with the slayings of several of its nuclear scientists, have caused the supposition by some in the intelligence community of a campaign of destruction by the U.S. and Israel directed at Iranian nuclear and missile programs, according to a Los Angeles Times report earlier this month. …
U.S. officials have admitted that the unmanned RQ-170 plane that seemingly fell into Iranian hands earlier this month was from the CIA fleet. The stealth aircraft has a highly sophisticated surveillance capability, due in part to its customized coatings and batwing form, features facilitating penetration of foreign air defenses without detection. The CIA employed the RQ-170 …
By Daria Carmon
Two people were placed into government custody in Taiwan early this week as Taiwanese investigators probe the most recent espionage attack on Taiwan’s defense system. One is a military intelligence officer from Taiwan who allegedly transferred classified data to another Taiwanese man with business interests in China. This business man then allegedly passed …
A conference was held last month in Ottawa for the express purpose of combating the annual losses in billions of dollars inflicted on Canadian industry by corporate spies. The title of the forum that took place over two days was CISC 2011: Protecting Your Company Against Corporate Espionage, and had at its helm Michel Juneau-Katsuya, onetime …
A onetime operative for China’s Ministry of State Security identified as Li Fengzhi, disclosed while a participant in a spy conference held recently in Canada, that a chief priority of Chinese agents there is gathering information from politicians as well as gaining greater political clout for Beijing in that country. Li, whose defection to the U.S. …