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  • July 2008

    • Judge Orders Rosenberg Evidence Kept Secret

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 23, 08 4:41 AM CDT

      Judge Orders Rosenberg Evidence Kept Secret

      Evidence that could clear the name of Ethel Rosenberg must stay under wraps to protect grand jury secrecy, a judge ruled yesterday. Ethel and husband Julius were executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Her brother David Greenglass, who testified against her, has since said he lied about Ethel's role to protect his own wife from prosecution. But he has requested that his grand jury testimony not be made public. More »

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      nuclear weapons  • Cold War  • Soviet Union  • espionage  • Communists  • atomic bomb

    • Brits: Russia Played Role in Ex-KGB Agent's London Murder

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jul 8, 08 6:29 AM CDT

      Brits: Russia Played Role in Ex-KGB Agent's London Murder

      The murder of a former KGB agent in London 2 years ago was carried out with the support of the Russian government, British government sources have told the BBC. There are "very strong indications it was a state action," said one senior official. Alexander Litvinenko, who was mysteriously poisoned, was a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. More »

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      Russia  • Alexander Litvinenko  • espionage  • poison  • spy  • KGB  • MI5

    • HP Exec Busted for Passing IBM Secrets

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 2, 08 6:21 AM CDT

      HP Exec Busted for Passing IBM Secrets

      A former Hewlett-Packard vice president faces federal charges for sharing trade secrets from IBM, the Wall Street Journal reports. The exec requested confidential pricing information while he was working for IBM. Two months later, he got a job at HP and emailed the info to an HP executive, according to investigators. Hewlett-Packard fired the new hire and reported him to IBM and authorities. More »

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      email  • IBM  • Hewlett Packard  • espionage  • corporate governance  • federal indictment  • corporate crime

  • April 2008

    • Mysteries of Holocaust Hero Endure

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 28, 08 11:10 AM CDT

      Mysteries of Holocaust Hero Endure

      Clues are emerging about the mysteries surrounding Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from death in the Holocaust. Documents related to a super-secret US intelligence agency known as "the Pond"—which Wallenberg may have worked with—will be released later this year. The AP explores the enduring puzzle of the Swedish Schindler. More »

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      Holocaust  • espionage  • Raoul Wallenberg

    • Engineer, 84, Busted in Israeli Spy Case

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 23, 08 4:50 AM CDT

      Engineer, 84, Busted in Israeli Spy Case

      An 84-year-old engineer has been arrested in New Jersey on charges he passed military secrets to Israel in the '80s, Reuters reports. Ben-Ami Kadish, who holds both US and Israeli citizenship, is accused of giving classified information—including details on fighter jets, missiles, and nuclear weapons—to an Israeli consul when he worked at an Army weapons center in New Jersey. More »

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      Israel  • nuclear weapons  • espionage  • spy

    • Army Engineer Accused of Spying for Israel

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 22, 08 2:36 PM CDT

      Army Engineer Accused of Spying for Israel

      An 84-year old American engineer was arrested today on charges of providing information on US military technology to Israel, Reuters reports. Ben-Ami Kadish, 83, has already admitted in FBI interviews to giving an unnamed Israeli source around 100 documents on nuclear weapons, the F-15 jet and the Patriot missile defense system in 1979-85. He will be arraigned this afternoon in Manhattan. More »

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      Israel  • nuclear weapons  • espionage  • spy  • missile defense system  • government spying  • Jonathan Pollard  • F-15 fighter jet

  • March 2008

    • Engineer Gets 24 Years in China Spy Case

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 24, 08 8:10 PM CDT

      Engineer Gets 24 Years in China Spy Case

      A judge sentenced Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak to 24 years in prison today for conspiring to send US military data to China, the Los Angeles Times reports. A US assistant attorney argued that Mak, 67, had violated US law even though the data on Navy submarines was not classified. Mak, a naturalized US citizen, proclaimed his love for America and vowed to appeal, Bloomberg reports. More »

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      China  • United States  • US Navy  • espionage  • spying  • Technology  • Chi Mak

    • Indian 'Spy' Freed After 35 Years

      newser  |  BBC  |  Mar 5, 08 7:51 AM CST

      Indian 'Spy' Freed After 35 Years

      An Indian prisoner has finally come home after spending 35 years on death row in Pakistan on spying charges, the BBC reports. Trader Kashmir Singh was greeted by his family and hundreds of well-wishers as he crossed the border back into India. "I have got a new life," he said. Pakistan's human rights minister persuaded President Pervez Musharraf to free Singh after learning of the case. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • India  • prison  • espionage  • political prisoner  • prisoner

    • Brits Used Astrologer Against Hitler

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 4, 08 9:10 AM CST

      Brits Used Astrologer Against Hitler

      Some British strategists saw the outcome of World War II written in the stars, according to newly declassified documents that reveal the role of an astrologer in predicting Adolf Hilter's moves. An intelligence agency employed a colorful character who claimed to be able to use astrological readings to, as one supporter put it, tell "when his aspects are bad," the Guardian reports. More »

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      Germany  • England  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler  • espionage  • MI5

  • February 2008

    • Separate FBI Raids Net 4 Alleged Spies

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 11, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Separate FBI Raids Net 4 Alleged Spies

      The FBI arrested a Defense Department employee and three others today on charges of spying for China, the Washington Post reports. The Virginia-based  DoD weapons analyst and two accomplices in New Orleans were coincidentally busted on the same day as an ex-Boeing engineer in Southern California, Justice Department officials in Alexandria, Va., and Los Angeles said. More »

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      China  • Defense Department  • espionage  • domestic spying

  • December 2007

    • Russian Claims He Was Asked to Kill Litvinenko

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Dec 9, 07 12:03 PM CST

      Russian Claims He Was Asked to Kill Litvinenko

      Onetime KGB agent Mikhail Trepashkin has said that a former colleague attempted to recruit him for a state-sponsored plot to kill Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko, who died of poisoning in London last year. Trepashkin will detail his allegations before the European human rights court, supporting the case that the Russian government killed Litvinenko, the Times of London reports. More »

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      Russia  • London  • Vladimir Putin  • Alexander Litvinenko  • espionage  • KGB

    • Brits Accuse China of Web Espionage

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Dec 1, 07 1:30 PM CST

      Brits Accuse China of Web Espionage

      UK spy agency MI5 has sent an unprecedented letter to 300 British business leaders, warning them that vital sectors of the country's economy are under attack from Chinese state-sponsored electronic espionage. The Chinese "use every means at their disposal" to dig up information about British companies, a letter recipient told the Times of London. More »

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      China  • Great Britain  • espionage  • computer security  • spying  • cyberwarfare

  • November 2007

    • Security Device Sector Booms

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Nov 26, 07 4:32 AM CST

      Security Device Sector Booms

      The inventions that turned up this month at a competition to find the world's most promising security start-up sound like prop candidates for a James Bond film than the real world: explosion-proof curtains and a hand-held tester for exposure to nerve agents were featured alongside the winner, a night-vision camera that picks up infrared light, Reuters reports. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • security  • counterterrorism  • espionage  • James Bond  • private security firm  • biometrics  • security cameras

    • Former FBI, CIA Agent Had Hezbollah Ties

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Nov 14, 07 8:02 AM CST

      Former FBI, CIA Agent Had Hezbollah Ties

      Lebanese native Nada Nadim Prouty overstayed her student visa, obtained US citizenship through a sham marriage, waitressed at a Detroit restaurant suspected of laundering money for Hezbollah, and became a CIA agent with access to sensitive intelligence. The case of Prouty, who tapped into government computers to obtain information about Hezbollah, has shocked the intelligence world, Newsweek reports. More »

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      FBI  • CIA  • Detroit  • Lebanon  • Hezbollah  • espionage

    • Rice Ordered to Testify in Espionage Trial

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 3, 07 9:32 AM CDT

      Rice Ordered to Testify in Espionage Trial

      In a rare move, a federal judge yesterday ordered Condoleezza Rice and 10 other high-ranking officials to testify at the upcoming trial of two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of espionage. National security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Defense official Paul Wolfowitz are among those subpoenaed to testify on behalf of the lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Israel  • Condoleezza Rice  • Paul Wolfowitz  • espionage  • spying  • Stephen Hadley  • AIPAC

  • September 2007

    • Grand Jury Indicts 2 for Espionage

      newser  |  PC World  |  Sep 27, 07 3:17 PM CDT

      Grand Jury Indicts 2 for Espionage

      Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge, both of California, were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on two counts each of economic espionage, conspiracy and theft of trade secrets. The former employees of chip maker Netlogics Microsystems allegedly downloaded chip tech plans onto their home computers, intending to start their own company backed by Chinese money, PCWorld reports. More »

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      China  • technology  • computer chip  • espionage

  • August 2007

    • Germany Furious Over Chinese Spy Hackers

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Aug 27, 07 5:52 AM CDT

      Germany Furious Over Chinese Spy Hackers

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off her Chinese summit today amid highly charged reports in der Spiegel that the Chinese have been spying on the German government by hacking into computers in several German ministries. Scores of official computers are said to have been infected with spyware concealed in PowerPoint and Microsoft Word programs. More »

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      China  • Germany  • Angela Merkel  • espionage  • hacker  • spyware  • trojans

  • May 2007

    • US-Iran Talks First Since 1979

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 28, 07 6:15 AM CDT

      US-Iran Talks First Since 1979

      Ambassadors for the US and Iran met for four hours today in Baghdad, in the first bilateral talks between the countries in decades. The US's Ryan Crocker was expected to press claims that Iran is providing training and weapons to Iraqi insurgents, and his counterpart Hassan Kazemi Qomi to raise accusations of US espionage. More »

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      Iran  • United States  • Ryan Crocker  • espionage  • 1980 hostage crisis

    • Engineer Guilty Of Attempted Espionage

      newser  |  CNN  |  May 10, 07 9:01 PM CDT

      Engineer Guilty Of Attempted Espionage

      A Chinese-American engineer could get up to 35 years for trying to funnel classified U.S. defense technology to China. A federal jury in California convicted 66-year-old Chi Mak, a naturalized citizen who worked for an Anaheim defense contractor, of conspiring to send top secret plans for submarine propulsion technology to Chinese authorities over several years. More »

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      China  • United States  • technology  • espionage  • Chi Mak

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