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espionage stories: 54 news summaries

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Army Engineer Accused of Spying for Israel

American gave away information on nuclear weapons, fighter jets

Apr 22, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Engineer Gets 24 Years in China Spy Case

Lawyer calls case 'politically transparent' and vows to appeal

Mar 24, 08 8:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

Indian 'Spy' Freed After 35 Years

Trader languished in Pakistani prisons after case was forgotten

Mar 5, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - 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,"... More »

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

Brits Used Astrologer Against Hitler

Declassified files
tell of  'star wars'
strategy in WWII

Mar 4, 08 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Separate FBI Raids Net 4 Alleged Spies

DoD analyst, ex-Boeing engineer accused of selling secrets to China

Feb 11, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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China • espionage • Department of Defense • domestic spying

Russian Claims He Was Asked to Kill Litvinenko

Warned victim of plot before tea poisoning

Dec 9, 07 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Brits Accuse China of Web Espionage

Spy chief warns businesses Beijing
is infiltrating sites

Dec 1, 07 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Security Device Sector Booms

James Bond-style gadgets range from biometric keyboard to blast-proof curtains

Nov 26, 07 4:32 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Former FBI,
CIA Agent Had Hezbollah Ties

Lebanese immigrant scammed entry, snooped in FBI files

Nov 14, 07 8:02 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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CIA • Lebanon • FBI • Hezbollah • Detroit • espionage • Nada Nadim Prouty

Rice Ordered
to Testify in Espionage Trial

10 top officials subpoenaed on behalf of pro-Israel lobbyists

Nov 3, 07 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Israel • Paul Wolfowitz • Condoleezza Rice • espionage • AIPAC • spying • Stephen Hadley • Steven Rosen • Keith Weissman

Grand Jury Indicts 2 for Espionage

Techies accused of attempted sale of microchips to China

Sep 27, 07 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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China • technology • espionage • computer chip

Germany Furious Over Chinese Spy Hackers

Berlin government computers infected with espionage programs

Aug 27, 07 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

US-Iran Talks First Since 1979

On the table: Iraqi security. Off the table: Iranian nuclear buildup, detainees.

May 28, 07 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Iran • 1980 hostage crisis • espionage • Ryan Crocker • United States • Hassan Kazemi Qomi

Engineer Guilty Of Attempted Espionage

Jury convicts California man of trying to send defense docs to China

May 10, 07 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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China • technology • espionage • Chi Mak • United States

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