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China slams US report warning of spying by Beijing

Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations.

Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case

A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.

Alleged Hawaii spy found competent to stand trial

A Maui man accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial.

Peru, Chile presidents trade barbs in spy spat

Peruvian officials said Tuesday that an air force officer has confessed to passing national security secrets to Chile, where President Michelle Bachelet denied the espionage allegations, calling them offensive.

Germany drops probe linked to Litvinenko case

German prosecutors said Friday they have dropped an investigation of a Russian businessman who had been suspected of transporting a radioactive substance used in the fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent in London in 2006.

Ex-British spy takes book battle to Supreme Court

A former British spy is asking Britain's Supreme Court to overturn a decision by domestic intelligence agency MI5 to block him from publishing a book about his career.

UK spy chief: UK must work with other countries

The head of Britain's domestic spy agency said Friday that Britain's security services try to make sure they do not collude in the torture or mistreatment of detainees by foreign governments, but acknowledged it was not possible to guarantee that it never happened.

British spies: growth in Islamist threat halted

Britain's domestic spy service thinks the threat from Islamist terrorism has stopped growing but remains severe, with terrorists eager to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to the first authorized history of the agency.

Trial opens in Va. for officer accused in spy case

A former Air Force officer is on trial for providing secret military information to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be a Chinese spy.

Automakers go ‘camo’ to thwart spy shots

With the advent of cheap digital cameras and the nearly ubiquitous camera phone, it’s almost impossible for a car manufacturer to keep a prototype under wraps.

Colombia moves to dismantle domestic spy agency

After a wiretapping scandal, Colombia's domestic spy department will be dismantled and a new agency will be set up to focus on intelligence and counterintelligence work involving national security, the nation's spy chief said Friday.

Ex-CIA spy's son pleads guilty to conspiracy

The son of an ex-CIA spy agreed to testify against his imprisoned father Thursday in a plea deal that could help him avoid jail time for taking money from Russian agents.

Sudan President dismisses powerful spy chief

Sudan's official news agency says the president has dismissed the country's powerful head of national security and intelligence.

Criminal charges in Colombia spy scandal

At least eight former officials of Colombia's domestic intelligence agency surrendered on Friday to face criminal charges for allegedly spying illegally on opponents of President Alvaro Uribe including judges, journalists and human rights workers.

Stiletto Spy School unleashes inner Bond girls

Be careful around that soccer mom sitting next to you. She may just be a trained killer.

Memoir reveals regret of Soviet spy Anthony Blunt

It began with youthful idealism and ended in bitter regret.

UK spy chief's family details posted on Facebook

He's the spy who came in from the beach.

DC visitors pioneer Spy Museum's gaming strategy

An Ohio family of five recently went undercover in the nation's capital to help foil a cyber "terrorist attack." Their attire wasn't very suspicious: Shorts, T-shirts and jackets tied around their waists.

Couple accused of spying for Cuba seeks release

A husband and wife charged with three decades of spying for Cuba want a judge to let them out of jail and confine them at home, without access to their sailboat and maps of Cuban waters that prosecutors said were evidence they planned to flee to the island nation.

Probation instead of prison for Pentagon leaker

A judge has dramatically reduced the sentence for a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to an Israeli diplomat and two pro-Israel lobbyists.

Washington couple ordered held in Cuba spying case

A federal judge ordered a former State Department employee and his wife held without bond, saying there appeared to be insurmountable evidence that they spied for Cuba.

Mich. man who spied for Iraq gets nearly 4 years

A man described by the Saddam Hussein regime as "our good cooperating source" was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison for supplying information to Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Cuba spy charges surprise neighbors in D.C.

Behind the massive English gates that herald the luxury co-op complex have lived senators, Cabinet members, judges.

Officials: Husband-wife spies lured by stranger

For three decades, accused spies Walter Kendall Myers and his wife shuffled secrets to their Cuban contacts in such fear of being caught, authorities say, that he memorized top-secret documents rather than bring them into their home.

No NY jail time but $50K fine for ex-Army engineer

A judge spared an 85-year-old former U.S. Army engineer any prison time for passing secret documents to the Israelis in the 1980s but said it remains a mystery why such a grave assault on national security took 23 years to prosecute.

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France finds lost spy file on young Hitler
Source: thelocal.de

Secret French intelligence service documents on the young Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on Friday.

Ex-KGB spy gunned down in Moscow
Source: BBC News

A Russian businessman who was convicted in Israel as a Soviet spy is shot dead in Moscow, according to police.

Norwalk Reflector | Front | I spy a pervert
Source: Norwalk Reflector

A traffic stop led officers to discover that a Willard man allegedly has been compiling nude photos of patients from the medical facility where he worked. Aguirre, an ultrasound technician who had worked at the Tiffin facility since December 2007, allegedly used his wireless c …

NASA keeps X-37 space plane "secret"
Source: FOXNews.com

No one interested in aerospace should be completely surprised. Killing flexible platforms like the shuttle, or even the SR-71, is short-sighted.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel spying devices found by UN
Source: BBC News

Israeli spying devices that were planted during the 2006 war with Hezbollah have been discovered in southern Lebanon, the UN has said. UN peacekeepers discovered the buried devices when they were blown up by remote control by Israel on Sunday.

U.S. to drop Israel lobbyist spy case
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it would drop charges in an espionage case against two pro-Israel lobbyists because it was unlikely to win at trial and classified information would have to be disclosed.

Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'
Source: the Mail online

A new internet game is about to be launched which allows 'super snooper' players to plug into the nation's CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes.

Spy drones on NZ defence wish list - National - NZ Herald News
Source: New Zealand Herald

EXCLUSIVE: Robotic "drone" spy planes flying by remote control could be used to patrol New Zealand's waters.

CNSNews.com - White House Defends Archiving Comments from Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter Sites
Source: CNSNews.com

So, if you visit a website that is run by the White House, all of your activity, and you comments, will be saved, and could, quite possibly, be used against you ? Why save the data if it's not going to be accessed, and used ? Doesn't this amount to spying, in a Big Brother-esque …

March of the state spies: One in 78 adults came under state-sanctioned surveillance last year
Source: the Mail online

Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures.

As a CIA spy, I saw in Iran what the West cannot ignore
Source: Christian Science Monitor

We must defend freedom in Iran soon – or deal with nuclear-armed fanatics later. Los Angeles - Today the West must make one of the most important decisions of our era.

Stilleto Spy School unleashes inner Bond Girl
Source: msnbc.com

TODAY's Natalie Morales and Amy Robach entered the shadowy world of intrigue by enrolling at the weekend spy school's Las Vegas campus.

Anthony Blunt: Betraying my country? It was all a big mistake - Times Online
Source: The Times

It is a necessary part of the spy's modus vivendi that gives little away; deception is at the very core of his being.

Liz Cheney and the Half Full Glass

The daughter of the man many call the Darth Vader of the bush administration was on MSNBC's Morning Joe today spouting the often repeated line that the bush people were successful in keeping America safe in the years since 9-11.

Stasi Files Reveal East Germany's 'Dirty Reality'
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

This week Germans were shocked to learn that almost 17,000 of their civil servants had once worked for the feared East German secret police, the Stasi.

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Last week, however, saw the publication of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press), which reveals the Nobel prize-winning novelist was for a while on the KGB's list of its agents in America.

Cyberattacks Hit U.S. and South Korean Web Sites
Source: The New York Times

Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea's main government spy agency said on Wednesday.

Spies like us: NSA to build huge facility in Utah - Salt Lake Tribune
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Hoping to protect its top-secret operations by decentralizing its massive computer hubs, the National Security Agency will build a 1-million-square-foot data center at Utah's Camp Williams. The years-in-the-making project, which may cost billions over time, got a $181 million st …

Dispute Erupts Over Who's Helping Iran Eavesdrop - World Watch - CBS News
Source: CBS News

The source of the surveillance technology used by Iran's Internet service providers remains an unresolved political question that could prove an embarrassment for any western company linked to Tehran's censorial regime.

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
Source: The New York Times

The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current an …

Spying for Cuba
Source: miller-mccune.com

An interesting tidbit about the Cuban spy case of Kendall and Gwendolyn Meyers. Also discusses the defense of the Cuban Five.

Writers/ Directors 'Spy on'

One may wonder how come my experience is same as the character played by Culisha Ethbert in My Satty Firl. With movies become the top entertaining media, how they dig out better storyline?

Cuban spies very difficult to uncover
Source: msnbc.com

Hunting spies is difficult, but Cuban spies are notoriously hard to detect, former senior intelligence officials said a day after an American husband and wife were indicted on charges of spying for Cuba.

Warrantless surveillance lawsuit thrown out
Source: Ars Technica

Federal district judge Vaughn Walker has rejected lawsuits that aimed to hold telecommunications companies accountable for their role in a controversial warrantless surveillance program that was orchestrated in secret by the federal government.

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