The US Justice Department on Tuesday charged two Chinese nationals for spying on behalf of China’s security service, alleging they gathered intelligence on Navy bases and attempted to recruit American service members as spies. The two men, identified as 38-year-old Yuance Chen from Oregon and 39-year-old Liren Ryan Lai, who entered the US in April…
Following days of conflict with Israel, Iran has turned its attention inward, intensifying a domestic crackdown framed as a response to foreign infiltration. The government has sharply widened its definition of espionage to include even basic social media activity, warning that following, liking, or commenting on accounts linked to Israel could now be treated as…
Iran has executed three men accused of spying for Israel’s spy agency Mossad, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported. Additionally, as many as 700 people have been arrested for ties with the Jewish nation, the state-affiliated Nournews reported. The developments come a day after both Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire proposal brokered by…
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had in 2021 claimed that the head of Iran’s counter-Mossad unit was himself an Israeli agent. Over decades, the Jewish nation has built an extensive espionage network in the Islamic Republic, the depth of which was on display in the recent Israeli offensive on June 13. Just as Israeli jets…
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case….
NEW DELHI: The Punjab Police on Monday arrested two Pakistani spies for allegedly being in touch with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and passing on security-related information. The police noted that they were activated after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.“Gurdaspur police have busted a module which leaked secret information to Pakistan. Two people have…
A former FBI agent has claimed that Russian intelligence targeted billionaire and Donald Trump’s close aide Elon Musk for blackmail, using his interests in sex and drugs to possibly influence him. The former Counterintelligence agent, Jonathan Buma, made the claim during a documentary aired by German broadcaster ZDF. Buma said that Musk and PayPal co-founder…
The CIA on Thursday released two Chinese-language videos aimed at encouraging Chinese government officials to leak sensitive information to the United States — a sign of the agency’s efforts to penetrate the Communist Party’s inner circle. The videos, titled “Why I Contacted CIA: To Take Control of My Fate” and “Why I Contacted CIA: For…
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she picked up in a seminar on mental health at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. She makes a mental note to deal with the issues at a scheduled time…