TEL AVIV — In testimony released publicly last week, Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS conceded that he opposed Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and that his negative opinions of the politician may have “entered” into his “thinking.”
EILAT, Israel — The founders of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS admitted that they helped the researcher they hired to compile their infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump to share the document with Sen. John McCain.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Thursday directly blamed a CIA official and Israeli Mossad backing for a week of protests calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, as the strength of the demonstrations was uncertain with fewer reports of rallies.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced new legislation on Tuesday designed to implement the most extensive overhaul his nation’s intelligence and espionage services have seen in decades. The move is driven by what Australia’s ABC News describes as “growing concerns within the intelligence community about the influence of Chinese Government agents and political donations.”
Sources told NBC News and CNN that President Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller told lawmakers in a closed interview that he rejected an offer to have five Russian women sent to Trump’s hotel room.
As the US seeks to revive the long-dormant Middle East peace process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Trump administration to let freed spy Jonathan Pollard move to Israel, the Hebrew media outlet Channel 2 reported on Tuesday.
GENEVA, Switzerland — The Baha’i community on Tuesday welcomed the release of a member serving a 10-year prison term in Iran, but expressed concern for six co-religionists tried alongside her.
State sponsor of terrorism Iran has denied the appeal of an American citizen, sentenced by the Islamic Republic to ten years in prison for allegedly spying on behalf of the United States, revealed the defendant’s former employer Princeton University.
JERUSALEM — During yesterday’s State of the Union program on CNN, host Jake Tapper wildly asserted that “every intelligence expert, both under the Obama administration and under the Trump administration” agrees with the assessment that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times published yesterday, President Donald Trump accused former FBI Director James Comey of possibly trying to leverage the contents of the now infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier compiled on the billionaire.
Azerbaijan on Thursday sentenced a Russian-Israeli travel blogger who wrote in support of Armenian separatists to three years in jail for visiting the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, crossed the line from scrutiny of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election into scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Wednesday, when he appeared on CNN to blast Trump for a supposed “second meeting” with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg last week.
Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran over the weekend, on charges of spying for the U.S. government.
TEL AVIV — Information contained inside a Washington Post article may disprove perhaps the most infamous claim made by the already discredited, 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump.
Lebanese media claimed Saturday that an Iraqi citizen was arrested in the country on suspicion of spying for Israel, quoting a statement by the Hezbollah terror group.
The controversial, partially discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump compiled by a former British intelligence officer reportedly served as the basis for the FBI’s justification to secure court approval to clandestinely monitor Carter Page, who has been identified as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are conducting a joint investigation into one of the “worst security breaches in their history” that exposed thousands of top-secret documents describing CIA tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions and computer systems, CBS News is reporting.
Iran is responsible for more than 80% of Israel’s security problems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, quoting one of the country’s security agencies.
Radio host Mark Levin used his Thursday evening show to outline the known steps taken by President Barack Obama’s administration in its last months to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, later, his new administration.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have raided the apartments of four Islamic clerics suspected of spying on opponents of the Turkish government.
Five people in Lebanon were arrested on Wednesday on claims they allegedly were spying for Israel, according to Lebanese security services.
President Donald Trump told the CIA it had his full support on Saturday as he paid a visit to mend fences after publicly rejecting its assessment that Russia tried to help him win the US election.
An Israel embassy employee in London has resigned after being caught conspiring to discredit British politicians he perceived as unfriendly to Israel.
TEL AVIV — U.S. intelligence officials warned their Israeli counterparts not to trust President-elect Donald Trump with intelligence secrets, citing alleged fears that Russia held blackmail information over Trump, according to a report today in Israel’s respected Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper.
The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday.
Iran’s intelligence agency planned terrorist attacks against pro-Israel organizations and individuals in Germany, according to German media reports.
Israel’s shadowy international spy agency, Mossad, is seeking to bolster its ranks with more women, launching its first recruitment drive specifically targeting females.
German prosecutors have indicted a Pakistani man accused of spying on a group that promotes German-Israeli relations for an Iranian intelligence agency.
Russia has an interest in not getting along with the United States, which is going to frustrate any American administration, like it or not.
Despite left-wing “fake news,” there is no evidence from the CIA investigation that Russian hackers actually distorted the voting process.
A prominent advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cooked up a simmering controversy with the suggestion that foreign chefs on Turkish television shows are undercover spies.
British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats and defense firms in addition to its military, the French daily Le Monde reported based on leaked documents.
A Saudi court on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death for spying for Iran, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.
Once an employee of the powerful CIA, Jeffrey Sterling now sits behind bars at a federal prison in Colorado. He bides his time by reading and writing and working at the facility’s recreational center.
Iran said on Wednesday it would accept no US “interference” after Washington demanded the release of a dual national and his 80-year-old father given 10 year sentences for espionage.
A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday dismissed a claim by researchers that he worked as a Soviet agent in Damascus in the 1980s, calling it a smear intended to derail a Russian peace initiative.
BERLIN – German intelligence authorities met with Iran’s Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi in Berlin on Tuesday, according to the Tasnim News Agency in Tehran, a paper with close links to the Revolutionary Guards Corps.
China has indicted 56-year-old American business consultant Phan “Sandy” Phan-Gillis on charges of spying for a foreign government, with a possible life sentence hanging in the balance. She is a naturalized American citizen of Chinese descent, who arrived in the United States as a refugee from Vietnam.
Dubai – Iran has arrested a member of the negotiating team that reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.
Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, on Thursday lost a bid to overturn restrictive probation conditions imposed when he was released in November after serving 30 years in prison.