a surveillance operative watching a location to report the direction that the target takes.
Ex-spies reveal illegal espionage i...
Two former officers of Colombia's main security and intelligence agency, the Department of Administrative Security (DAS), recently told all to La FM radio station. Turns out the candidates who ran against the then incumbent and current president Alvaro Uribe in 2006 were spied upon by...
Pentagon official leaks secrets to ...
Pentagon official James Wilbur Fondren has been charged with sharing classified information with a Chinese secret agent. Fondren, once an air force lieutenant colonel, has been serving as...
Ex-NATO Rep Admits to Spying on Geo...
Vakhtang Maysa, who used to be Georgia's representative to NATO, was arrested by the Georgian Internal Ministry and has allegedly confessed to spying on...
U.S. Rep Accused of Helping Alleged...
Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat whose potentially compromising 2005 telephone conversation with a suspected Israeli agent was secretly recorded, has asked that the Department of Justice release...
British Agent Loses Drug Intelligen...
For most females, a handbag is a veritable extension of the body, but that doesn't mean they never get lost or accidentally left behind – probably something an undercover British female agent should have considered before traipsing across South America with a USB stick chock-full of intelligence in her purse.
The Sunday Times reported this weekend …
India Penetrated by Foreign Intelli...
A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), recently announced that counterintelligence ops in India have not been successful in shutting out the efforts of foreign intelligence agencies in India. Admissions such as this are rare, especially given that this one involves the surprising fact that even the Prime Minister …
Russia Accuses U.S. Base of Spying
This Friday, April 3, the United States was accused by the Russian state television channel Rossiya of using its only air base in Central Asia as a cover for a big espionage operation whose focus is China and Russia. The accusation came with the teaser of a documentary about U.S. intelligence ops at Manas base in …
Still No Parole for Israeli Spy Con...
Israel does not suffer spies lightly. Over a decade has passed since Israeli spy and businessman Nahum Manbar was convicted of treason. He put Israel's national security in danger by selling potentially harmful info and materials to enemy state Iran, both of which could have helped Iran advance their chemical weaponry.
Manbar was sentenced to 16 …
Leaked Report: U.S. intelligence fa...
A confidential, novel-length report compiled by the RAND national defense research institute for U.S. Joint Forces Command has been leaked to the public, exposing failed U.S. intelligence as a major hindrance to the counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan.
The report – based on dozens of interviews with British, Canadian, Dutch, and U.S. army, intelligence and diplomatic officials …
NSA Joins Facebook for Spies
Baltimore Sun's David Wood reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has finally, several months after launch, decided to join a whopping 16 other US intelligence agencies in signing up for A-Space, the secure Facebook for intelligence analysts. You guessed it (or even if you didn't), the 'A' stands for 'analyst.'
You know that social …
Boyle to Direct Next Bond?!
The movieland rumor mill has been turning at warp speed yet again, this time getting every Slumdog Millionaire fan out there (and heavens knows there are a lot of us) signing up to purchase über-advanced tickets to the next 007 flick.
That's right, tabloids and e-zines on both sides of the Atlantic had British director Danny …
Tracking Hezbollah's Every Mo...
In the espionage trade, half the battle is figuring out how to operate in stealth mode and the other half, figuring out how to closely track everyone else (even though they too are aiming to be completely undetectable). Recent discoveries show that Hezbollah hasn't been faring too well on the first half of that battle for …
20 foreign agencies spying on Brita...
According to a UK government security document dated January 19, Great Britain is currently under the surveillance of spies from 20 foreign intelligence agencies. The report singles out Russia and China as having the most active espionage operations in the country, but NATO allies like France and Germany are also listed among those trying to get …