Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an Iranian diaspora opposition group, met in Paris on Saturday, renewing tensions between the Palestinian leadership and Iran.
Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy U.S intelligence officer convicted of one count of spying for an ally, Israel, petitioned a New York judge on Friday to overturn his highly restrictive probation conditions. In December, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest stated the
An Egyptian court has sentenced six people, including two journalists for the Al-Jazeera news service, to death for allegedly leaking state secrets to Qatar.
The Saudi security services have uncovered 33 spies who have been working for the Israeli Mossad and the Iranian intelligence for the past three years, reports said on Sunday.
It will be difficult for the U.S. government to justify the draconian, nonsensical parole conditions under which Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is currently living in New York City.
48-year-old Huang Yu, a computer technician in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China, has been sentenced to death for leaking over 150,000 classified documents to an unspecified foreign spy agency, according to Chinese state television.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The US District Court in the Southern District of New York granted a request on Tuesday by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s lawyers to reopen his appeal against his strict parole conditions, according to a document received Wednesday
Navy Lt. Commander Edward Lin has been charged with giving “secret information relating to the national defense to a representative of a foreign government,” with “intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation.”
TEL AVIV (AFP) – Israeli navy veteran Ami Daniel points at his computer screen and explains why the ship he was tracking should have been stopped and searched. It sailed near the Libyan port of Tobruk and waited four days more
The armed wing of Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, said Sunday it had executed one of its members, with sources familiar with the case calling him a senior official accused of spying for Israel. “The Al-Qassam Brigades announce that
“I take classified information seriously,” Hillary Clinton declared on CNN Monday morning. “People are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I’m aware of.”
A case of industrial espionage linked to China concluded with prison time, property forfeiture, and possible deportation on Wednesday, as 46-year-old Mo Hailong—a Chinese citizen described as a “permanent resident of the United States” by the New York Times—pled guilty to charges of stealing high-tech seed corn from American companies.
Two Turkish opposition journalists are facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for a story that accused the government of supplying weapons to Islamist rebels in Syria.
TEL AVIV – Fearful of violating his “draconian” parole, abstained from giving an address at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday, JTA reported. Aaron Troodler, a spokesman for the group Justice for Jonathan Pollard, said Pollard
On Friday, North Korea announced the arrest of University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, for “perpetrating a hostile act” against the Communist state, with the “tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.”
Jewish News reports: Jonathan Pollard – the spy who served 30 years in a U.S. prison after admitting providing classified information to the Israeli government – will address Jewish leaders in New York next week in his first public speech since his release. Pollard
A grand jury has indicted five people, two of them employees of a research facility near Philadelphia, with conspiring to steal pharmaceutical trade secrets and resell them in China, using a corporate front that may have ties to the Chinese government.
A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two men in their 20s to death on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran and planning terror attacks inside the country.
In the midst of its espionage operations against the State of Israel, the Obama administration’s National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on private conversations conducted with members of the U.S. Congress and American-Jewish groups, a late Tuesday report in the Wall Street Journal reveals.
An Israeli citizen jailed for 15 years in Egypt on charges of spying was freed from prison on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office said. Ouda Tarabin, a Bedouin from Rahat, who has denied all the allegations against him, was returned
President Obama’s indifference toward Americans held hostage by his partners-in-peace in Tehran was stress-tested again on Sunday, as an Iranian court sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to prison on “espionage” charges.
The United States announced that Friday it has no intention of changing the terms of parole for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, the American spy who was convicted of selling US secrets to Israel, was freed Friday after 30 years
After 10,956 days behind bars in the US, convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard left his prison in North Carolina in the early hours of Friday morning. “The people of Israel welcome Jonathan Pollard’s release,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli officials to keep low-key about Friday’s scheduled release by the United States of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, a cabinet minister said. The former U.S. Navy analyst’s espionage for Israel in the 1980s remains
President Obama’s cyber-security deal with China is beginning to look a lot like his Iran nuke deal: Obama makes loud pronouncements about a new era of mutual understanding and cooperation, while his partners-in-peace stab him in the back. China waited less than 24 hours to resume hacking U.S. companies after Obama and President Xi Jinping announced a new era of mutual commitment to data security, according to research from a security firm called CrowdStrike, as reported by The Hill.
The Iranian government has convicted hostage American reporter Jason Rezaian of “espionage” in an outrageous secret trial.
LOS ANGELES — Politicon, a bipartisan gathering of political celebrities, activists and entertainers, has announced that it will feature a “special live video feed interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden” on Saturday at 11 a.m.
Temple University physics professor Xiaoxing Xi is understandably angry with the FBI for filing espionage charges against him, without bothering to consult with duly credentialed experts to understand exactly what he had done.
The U.S. recently strengthened its military presence in the Arctic due to a heavy Chinese and Russian presence. Sources told CNN that American officials witnessed a Russian intelligence vessel in the Arctic near a Shell Oil ship on Monday.
The U.S. military discovered a Russian intelligence ship near Kings Bay, GA, on its way to Cuba. Kings Bay hosts the U.S. Navy’s East Coast ballistic missile submarine fleet.
One way or the other, the “legal” ordeal of a Washington Post reporter held captive in Iran appears to be winding down. According to Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron, a final hearing in the secret “espionage” trail of Jason Rezaian was held on Monday, and will be the final hearing before a verdict is reached. Rezaian has been a already prisoner of the Iranian regime for over a year.
The first reports of the massive penetration of Office of Personnel Management files and security clearance applications — apparently by Chinese hackers most likely working for, or with, that country’s military intelligence apparatus — included grumbles from the affected employees that the administration didn’t handle the situation very well.
During a previous look at the cyber-security faceplant that led to Chinese hackers running wild in the Office of Personnel Management system, I thought the story of hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent to implement security software so far behind schedule that it is already obsolete sounded uncomfortably similar to the HealthCareDotGov debacle.
REUTERS– The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. It was the third time in as
It’s looking more and more as if destroying America’s relationship with Israel isn’t just an unfortunate, unintended consequence of Obama’s mad dash to set up a new Persian Empire with nuclear weapons and declare Peace In Our Time. In fact, messing up that special relationship with Israel seems to be an Obama objective.
Ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a pedophile a few months before he was poisoned in 2006. He gave Putin the nickname “The Kremlin Pedophile” after he kissed a young boy’s stomach in public.
Cyber-war is everywhere, most assuredly including the conflicts where physical bullets and bombs are flying. The struggle to topple the Assad regime in Syria, for example, has been “marked by a very active, if only sporadically visible, cyberbattle that has engulfed all sides,” according to a weekend article at the New York Times.
A court in Albuquerque has sentenced Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, a U.S. physicist of Argentine descent, to five years in prison for attempting to sell an undercover FBI agent U.S. nuclear secrets, as well as promising a bomb that could severely impair functions in New York City.
Lithuania, a member of the European Union and NATO, has identified more spies within its armed forces. The spy discovered in this incident worked at a NATO facility in Šiauliai. Lithuanian officials did not state which country the spies worked for, but they did not rule out connections to Russia and Belarus. Other experts believe several more Russian spies have infiltrated Lithuania.
