Espionage

NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) — A naval flight officer accused of spying by selling secrets to China and Taiwan pleaded guilty to illegally mishandling and communicating defense information at his court-martial Thursday, but maintained his innocence of other espionage counts against him. Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin originally faced two counts of espionage, three […]

Two Russian nationals arrested in the United States last October on charges of conspiring to export sensitive military technology from the United States to Russia were sentenced to time served on Friday, a spokesman for U.S. prosecutors said. Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Karpenko, 33, and Alexey Krutilin, 27, both pleaded guilty on March 8 and were sentenced […]

The United States government, through the Department of Justice, is seeking the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to a report from CNN. U.S. officials familiar with the matter say that Assange can no longer claim First Amendment protections. Prosecuting Assange has been a priority for the Department of Justice for many years, but under […]

From the northern tip of the Baltics to the southern edge of the Balkans, Russia is stepping up spying on its neighbors, according to numerous reports from the region. The most recent notice of such activity comes from Estonia, whose intelligence service’s annual report says the “Baltic Sea area is especially vulnerable to threats from […]

A Pakistani military court has issued a death sentence for an Indian man who they claim confessed himself to be a spy from India’s foreign intelligence service. The man in question is Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a former officer in the Indian Navy, who was detained by Pakistani authorities in March 2016 and accused of “sabotage […]

North Korean hackers have breached a South Korean military network and have reportedly stolen military “war plans,” a South Korean newspaper reports. The hack occurred last September, and had originally been downplayed by South Korean defense officials, saying that no critical information had leaked. Now an anonymous South Korean government source is telling Chosun Ilbo […]

Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Office of Technical Service (OTS), Robert Wallace, who spent 40 years serving the United States in the intelligence community, has written a new book that documents hundreds of locations in the greater Washington, D.C., area with links to espionage. The book, “Spy Sites of Washington, D.C., A […]

China’s military is fast approaching “near parity” with western nations, according to a new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In its 2017 Military Balance report, which focuses on global military capabilities and defense spending, IISS experts say that China has made significant progress in research and development and improved its military capabilities, […]

Phillip Knightley, an Australian-born journalist who helped reveal that British spy Kim Philby was a double agent of the Soviet Union and who later interviewed Philby in Moscow, and who wrote compelling books about journalism and the history of spycraft, died Wednesday in London. He was 87. His death was first reported by the London […]

In a secret assessment that was made public on Friday, the CIA concluded that state sanctioned Russian hackers intervened in the recent presidential election on behalf of President Elect Donald Trump. The CIA and other intelligence agencies were able to identify individuals that provided WikiLeaks with thousands of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, and connect them to […]

It has been said that a lie travels around the world before the truth can get its pants on.  Sadly, that adage has never been more apparent than during this election cycle.  Mercifully over, it produced two deeply flawed Presidential candidates whose respective relationships with the truth were casual at best.  In a normal world, […]

The Russians employed “active measures” against the United States and undermined our election process. We should remain skeptical of the results, not optimistic. Putin’s congratulations to President-elect Trump may signify a few things. It could be sincere, but it’s likely just part of his calculus. Russia played a role in this election, and it’s alarming. That […]