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September 30, 2009
Prison sentences for Americans in I...
In Italy the trial against those Italian and American agents believed to be involved in an alleged CIA rendition operation continues. The Italian prosecutor has...
September 22, 2009
Trial begins for U.S. informant to ...
You’re a former U.S. Air Force officer, and your local New Orleans furniture salesman asks you to share with him some top secret military information. What do you do? Well, we guess it depends on what you’re being offered in...
August 31, 2009
Son of notorious CIA double agent p...
Earlier this year, it was discovered that the son of the highest-ranking CIA operative ever to be convicted of spying for the other side, was helping his imprisoned father to continue collaborating with the Russians. The father – Harold Nicholson – was...
August 24, 2009
Egypt: Trial of Hezbollah spies in ...
This Sunday, Egypt brought 26 alleged Hezbollah agents to the stand, where they were formally accused of passing information to a foreign organization, possession of explosive material and planning terrorist attacks on Egyptian...
August 20, 2009
Iran insists charges against Reiss ...
It comes as no surprise that Iran thinks France’s official perspective regarding Clotilde Reiss is “biased and irrational.” France managed to win her temporary release, at the hefty bail fee of $300,000, but calling for Tehran to drop the charges against Reiss altogether has met with indignation. Iran insists that Ms. Reiss is not a political …
August 18, 2009
Hacker hunter turns bad
Albert Gonzalez once used his wily computer skills to help the U.S. government track down hackers. Now it seems he’s crossed over to the other side, where instead of spying to protect U.S. citizens, he’s been spying to steal millions...
August 17, 2009
Iran: French ‘spy’ out on bail
Clotilde Reiss, a French teacher accused of spying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections, was released on bail yesterday after spending a month and a half in Tehran’s now infamous Evin prison. Just shy of her 24th birthday...
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...
July 31, 2009
U.S. getting soft on Cuban spies?
On October 13, 2009, U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard will issue new sentences for Fernando González, Luis Medina and Antonio Guerrero, three members of the Cuban Five spies. The latter two have been serving life sentences and...
July 20, 2009
China says U.S. lying about economi...
Last Thursday, July 16, Chinese-born engineer Dongfan ‘Greg’ Chung was convicted in the first economic espionage trial in the United States. China’s response to the implied accusation of being...
July 16, 2009
China-born engineer guilty of econo...
At the beginning of June, the first economic espionage trial in the United States got under way. Today, about six weeks later, the verdict is in: an engineer who once worked for Boeing has...
July 8, 2009
Goldman code spy out on bail
Sergey Aleynikov – a Russian computer programmer who started working at Goldman Sachs in May 2007 and was recently accused of stealing code from the company – was released on $750,000 bail. In addition to...
July 1, 2009
Guantanamo inmate to be released
Abdulrahim Al Janko, a Guantanamo detainee, was picked up by the U.S. military in 2002 in an Afghan prison renowned for its extremely grim conditions. He was purportedly suspected by the Taliban and Al Qaeda of being an American spy...
June 19, 2009
Cuban spies plead for house arrest ...
Denied bail because they were deemed to be a flight risk, the Cuban spy couple arrested on June 4 have requested they be...
June 11, 2009
No bail for Cuban spies
Yesterday, a U.S. federal judge denied bail to a retired State Department employee and his wife, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers, who were both recently...