The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, has been placed under police protection amidst claims that the Russian government had attempted to poison those responsible for removing a statue of a Soviet general statue from the city. The mayor and Ondřej
BuzzFeed News recently published an article outlining how Saudi Arabia infiltrated social media firm Twitter in order to identify Saudi dissidents. According to the report, Twitter was completely unprepared for foreign governments to spy on its users. According to one former employee, “Nobody told us that we would be approached, that we would be — I don’t know if ‘seduced’ is the right word — that we would be intimidated into giving any kind of Twitter information.”
The Obama administration waged war on whistleblowers during its tenure, reportedly prosecuting at least eight leakers under the Espionage Act – more than under all former presidents combined.
Chinese spies are using the Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn to recruit spies, according to intelligence officials in the United States and Europe, who say that foreign agents are approaching thousands of users on the website.
If you are stupid enough to believe the establishment media, the true Spygate scandal is that Hillary Clinton did not benefit from Barack Obama’s sending spies to spy on her campaign.
“If they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace,” Trump said when asked about the reports by reporters. “I hope they weren’t.”
TEL AVIV – The Mossad espionage agency provided crucial intelligence that resulted in raids on the homes of Iranian nationals suspected of being spies throughout Germany, Israeli media reported Tuesday.
“We will be talking on matters of interest to both the Philippines,” Duterte said. “With you around, guys, you’re the spies. Yes, you are.”
We tend to think of “fake news” as a new phenomenon, a product of advanced social media technology and our coarse and divided popular culture. But as Ecclesiastes observes (chapter 1, verse 9): “there is nothing new under the sun.”
The best move for President Trump would not be to discourage a Russia probe, but to widen it, back to President Barack Obama’s 2007-8 campaign.
A man believed to be a Turkish spy was arrested by German police after they discovered his plans to assassinate several Kurdish and other figures opposed to the Turkish regime in Germany.
The government of Iran has responded to a Saudi court’s decision to sentence 15 Iranian citizens to death on charges of espionage, accusing Saudis of “forging” divides among Muslims “and spreading false accusations.”
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.
LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign intelligence service is to get 40 percent more spies in one of the biggest expansions since the Cold War as MI6 seeks to harness new technology, the BBC said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost several mobile telephones carrying e-mails from her private server during her time in office, according to newly-released FBI documents on the investigation into her mishandling of classified information.
The Associated Press cites “Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish militia commanders, several Iraqi intelligence officials and an informant for the Iraqi government” as sources for a report that paranoid Islamic State leaders are butchering dozens of their own fighters on a hunt for spies.
The Washington Post editorial board is excoriating the White House for an alarming report surfacing that Cuban military agents were given a tour of a pivotal Key West military facility upon the invitation of the U.S. military.
Stephanie Rader, a 100-year-old woman who worked as an undercover spy in Poland at the end of World War II, may still get the Legion of Merit that eluded her for nearly 70 years—but it will be a posthumous honor. Rader died Thursday, after fighting Parkinson’s disease, a family friend told me.
CNN reported Wednesday that a U.S. official has confirmed that “the United States is pulling spies from China as a result of the cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers.”
Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) publicly executed at least two men accused of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the United States and then hung their bodies from a bridge, reports The Long War Journal.
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
Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a United States spy sentenced to 25 years in prison in Cuba for espionage, would call his parents every day from deep within the Cuban penal system. Then, one day in mid-December, the calls stopped, and President Barack Obama announced that Sarraff was safely on American soil. Since his alleged release, however, his family and friends have not heard from him and are demanding to know whether he is, indeed, free.
