
Nov 16 - By Carla Salazar, Associated Press Writer
Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy.
Oct 29 - By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer
A space scientist accused of attempted espionage was ordered held without bond Thursday after prosecutors said he was a "walking safe deposit box" of government secrets who claimed to have already passed some of them to Israel.

Oct 20 - By Associated Press
A former government scientist accused of attempted espionage pleaded guilty to overbilling NASA and the Department of Defense more than $265,000 for contracting work, according to newly unsealed court records.
Oct 20 - By Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
Prosecutors say a scientist who worked on the cutting edge of moon exploration has been caught trying to sell classified secrets to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence agent.
Oct 19 - By Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested Monday on charges of attempting to pass along classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.

Oct 13 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
A man convicted of spying for Cuba while working at a Navy base in Florida received a reduced prison sentence of 22 years Tuesday, far shorter than the original life term thrown out by an appeals court.
Oct 1 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
A federal judge on Friday halted a U.S. search for national security damage assessments that had been ordered by another judge in the politically charged case of three convicted Cuban spies who are seeking lenient prison sentences.
Jun 26 - By Victor Epstein, Associated Press Writer
A sales executive who used personal information to guess passwords, hack into e-mail accounts and listen in on conference calls at his friends' companies was sentenced to probation Friday — a punishment the victims said was too lenient.
Jun 15 - By Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
Cuban exiles said Monday they were relieved the Supreme Court refused to review the convictions of five intelligence agents for the communist country, despite calls from Nobel Prize winners and international legal groups to consider the case.
May 7 - By Peter Leonard, Associated Press Writer
A Moscow court convicted two brothers with dual Russian-U.S. citizenship of industrial espionage Thursday and gave them one-year suspended sentences, according Russia's top domestic security agency.
Mar 26 - By David Porter, Associated Press Writer
A federal judge on Tuesday reduced the sentence of a former Philippine National Police officer who pleaded guilty to receiving classified U.S. government documents.
Mar 6 - By Associated Press
A senior employee of Taiwan's presidential office was indicted Friday on charges of providing classified information to rival China, a prosecutor said.
Jan 15 - By Associated Press
Israel's Shin Bet security service says an Israeli citizen has been charged with passing information to Iranian intelligence agents.
Nov 21 - By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
Two engineers from China were sentenced to a year in prison Friday for stealing computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers and trying to smuggle the secrets to their homeland to launch a government-backed startup there.

Aug 16 - By Charles J. Hanley, AP Special Correspondent
Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black lists, suspicion and smear, Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer.
Jul 11 - By Paul Sonne, Associated Press Writer
Russia has accused the British Embassy's top trade official in Moscow of espionage, the British Foreign Office confirmed Friday.
Jun 4 - By Walter Putnam, Associated Press Writer
A federal appeals court has again upheld the politically charged convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the U.S., but vacated sentences of three of them, including two who are serving life terms.
May 13 - By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press Writer
A New Orleans furniture salesman pleaded guilty Tuesday to spying for the Chinese government and providing Beijing with secret information on military relations between the U.S. and Taiwan.
Feb 19 - By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer
A federal magistrate entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday on behalf of a Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing military and aerospace trade secrets for years on behalf of China.
Feb 14 - By Associated Press
China on Thursday called U.S. allegations of Chinese spying "groundless" and urged the U.S. to stop its "Cold War thinking."
Dec 19 - By Associated Press
Russia's spy chief said Wednesday that his service has thwarted the work of nearly 100 foreign agents in the past year, and that the ex-Soviet Baltic nations have increased their espionage activity, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
Dec 13 - By Associated Press
A man convicted of spying for Saddam Hussein's former regime and sharing information with the executed Iraqi dictator's intelligence service was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison, federal prosecutors said.
Dec 3 - By Associated Press
A Silicon Valley businessman was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for helping broker the sale of a night vision camera to a research institute linked to the Chinese military, federal prosecutors said.
Dec 3 - By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press Writer
A court convicted the head of a rocket and space technology company Monday on charges of leaking sensitive technology to China — the latest case involving a Russian scientist who was prosecuted despite claims the sensitive materials were in the public domain.
Apr 17 - By David Aguilar, Associated Press Writer
Two Michigan men spied for the Iraqi government before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country, federal authorities said Tuesday.