updated Fri. March 23, 2018
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WSAW
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON (WSAW) -- Congress is honoring a group of American spies who served during World War II -- among them, a man from Stoughton. Their success was rooted in staying hidden and keeping secrets. "They annihilated a couple of German battalions," Matt Bolland explained. Matt is the son ... veteran
Mic
March 22, 2018
In her book American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It, Jennifer Stisa Granick points out the flawed logic: "One in four people in the United States has a criminal record," she writes. "This information is used to deny access to public benefits, housing, jobs ... I have nothing to hide
Infosecurity Magazine
February 26, 2018
The Sun
February 22, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn was monitored by US spies when he went to Soviet-backed conference in Central America the same year he met Commie agent ... During his visit to the conference, American spies kept tabs on him and later filed a report on his support of Fenastras to the authorities in Washington. The ... US spies
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2018
Philippines' Duterte Suggests News Site Rappler Linked to U.S. Spies. Feb. 22, 2018, at 6:21 a.m.. Feb. 22, 2018, at 6:21 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Philippines' Duterte Suggests News Site Rappler Linked to U.S. Spies. More. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, wearing a military uniform, gestures as he delivers ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2018
North Korean soldiers stand at their watchtower in February, 2016 on the banks of the Yalu River in the North Korean town of Sinuiju. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images). For the past several years, humanitarian groups and nongovernmental organizations have combed commercial satellite imagery ... Human Rights Groups
TCT
February 12, 2018
A shadowy unnamed Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 in a deal intended to deliver cyberweapons stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) that was also to include compromising material about President Donald Trump, reported Friday. The cash was delivered to a Berlin hotel in aÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Hindu
February 12, 2018
After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $1,00,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Donald Trump, according to U.S. and EuropeanÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
NPR
February 12, 2018
A Russian operative, a suitcase full of cash, a secret meeting in Germany, stolen cyber weapons and alleged dirt on the president. In a New York Times story that broke late last week, reporter Matthew Rosenberg tells this tale of American spies who were rolled by the Russians. He joins us now to explain. Human Rights Groups
The Japan Times
February 10, 2018
WASHINGTON – A Russian promising to turn over stolen hacking tools and compromising information on President Donald Trump fleeced American spies for $100,000 last year, The New York Times reported Friday. In a story worthy of a John le Carre novel that included secret handovers of USB drives inÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
New York Times
February 10, 2018
BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American andÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Daily Times
February 3, 2018
Volkskrant said American spies were so grateful they sent the Dutch cake and flowers. Cozy Bear would later be identified as one of two Russian government-linked hacking groups that broke in to the DNC ahead of the 2016 presidential election; the other is usually called Fancy Bear. Cybersecurity firmÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Cheat Sheet
January 27, 2018
A nuclear-armed North Korea is a danger to the U.S. as well as the rest of the world. Because there are so few foreign policy options to correct the situation, the U.S. and other world powers have been relying on financial and economic sanctions to bring the Kim regime back into denuclearizationÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
KXII-TV
January 26, 2018
Volkskrant said American spies were so grateful they sent the Dutch cake and flowers. Cozy Bear would later be identified as one of two Russian government-linked hacking groups that broke in to the DNC ahead of the 2016 presidential election; the other is usually called Fancy Bear. Cybersecurity firmÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
New York Times
January 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — While American intelligence authorities investigated a possible C.I.A. mole in recent years, they discovered that one former agency officer had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained bank deposits, current and former government officials said on Wednesday. The moneyÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
CNN
January 24, 2018
Washington (CNN) CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the US intelligence community still considers North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be a "rational actor" but that assessment does not mean he is only developing nuclear weapons as a means to preserve his regime. "We do believe he wouldÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Financial Tribune
January 22, 2018
The department believes he played a role in compromising a network of US spies in China, a year-long deterioration that the New York Times describes as “one of the American government's worst intelligence failures in recent years.” Lee left the CIA in 2007, after becoming frustrated that he was unable toÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
DAWN.com
January 18, 2018
WASHINGTON: US authorities said on Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorised notebook that had the identities of undercover US spies. Lee, a naturalized US citizen also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrestedÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Telegraph.co.uk
January 18, 2018
A former CIA operative has been arrested after investigators suspected he secretly helped bring down America's network of informants in China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a 53-year-old US citizen, was intercepted after he arrived at John F. Kennedy airport in New York in the climax of a six-year investigation. Human Rights Groups
NextShark
January 17, 2018
Jared Kushner received a warning from U.S. counterintelligence officials last year that his friendship with Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be used by the Chinese government to its advantage. Citing officials privy to the issue, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday thatÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Gizmodo
January 11, 2018
... the House of Representatives will vote on whether to extend the Section 702 program of the FISA Amendments Act, which permits American spies to ... US spies are known, for instance, to have intercepted calls between his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn—who has pleaded guilty to lyingÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
HeraldScotland
January 5, 2018
After a few anxious hours' detention it was all sorted out and my correspondent's credentials accepted, but I'll never forget the near paranoia of those Iranian IRGC men and their obsessive preoccupation with “American spies”. The whole issue of US “spies”, skulduggery and interference has once againÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Cipher Brief
January 5, 2018
Wartime has been a force multiplier for espionage ever since the Revolutionary War, when General George Washington was the founding father of the art of intelligence. In World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) advanced the practice, albeit tragically, with its Cassia Ring espionage network. Human Rights Groups
Boing Boing
December 26, 2017
America's spy agencies have always talked a good game about the "official channels" available to spies who discover wrongdoing, insisting that the procedures to investigate their claims and protect them from retaliation mean that no spy should ever have to go to the press. When you read the accounts ofÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 21, 2017
They hired Americans to professionalize their intelligence service. But how far can former U.S. spies go? By Jenna McLaughlin. Illustration by Taylor Callery. facebook twitter reddit google-plus email. December 21, 2017. Not far from the northeastern Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi, in a typical modern Gulf villa framed on one sideÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Guardian
October 2, 2017
It was not until US spies, posted to the embassy under diplomatic cover, reported hearing bizarre sounds and experiencing even stranger physical effects ... Of the 21 confirmed cases, American spies suffered some of the most acute damage, including brain injury and hearing loss that has not healed, saidÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
The Intercept
September 13, 2017
NSA agents successfully targeted “the entire business chain” connecting foreign cafes to the internet, bragged about an “all-out effort” to spy on liberated Iraq, and began systematically trying to break into virtual private networks, according to a set of internal agency news reports dating to the first half ofÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Politico
September 8, 2017
U.S. efforts to penetrate reclusive North Korea have been so confounding for so long that the military likely doesn't have enough accurate intelligence to take out its nuclear and missile facilities even if President Donald Trump ordered it. Trump on Thursday declared anew that "military action would certainlyÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
NBCNews.com
August 29, 2017
WASHINGTON — When North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan Monday, the $80 billion American intelligence-gathering apparatus had only hours of warning, U.S. officials told NBC News. It was the latest in a long history of apparent surprises by the rogue regime. Lately, the North KoreansÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Washington Examiner
July 14, 2017
"You must have heard about the adventures of some representatives of these services, everything was available to the public — wigs, disguises and installations with performances," she added. Russia has claimed to foil several "incidents" involving U.S. spies this year. Zakharova's comments are just theÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Newsweek
May 22, 2017
... Hails Reported Capture and Killing of American Spies. By Reuters On 5/22/17 at 3:07 AM. Xi Jinping Trump U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago state in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6. A report claimed that China has killed or imprisoned multiple U.S. spies in recent years. Human Rights Groups
Business Insider
May 18, 2017
US spies caught a Russian military-intelligence officer bragging about causing chaos in the upcoming US election six months before the vote, ... in January concluded that Russia ordered an influence operation to try to sway the 2016 election, it was in May 2016 that American spies were hearing the firstÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
71 Republic
December 31, 1999
Former CIA officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, was taken into custody Monday night after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, under suspicion that he disclosed the identities of U.S. spies to Chinese authorities. Lee is facing a charge of unlawful retention of national defense information, which wouldÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
American officials suspect China then shared that information with Russia, which employed it to expose, arrest and possibly even kill American spies in that country, said the current and former officials, who declined to be named discussing a highly sensitive matter. The possible sharing with Russia has notÃÂ ... Human Rights Groups
AllAfrica.com
November 23, 2017
"He called us spies and threw us out of the caucus meeting and is now calling us parasites which is a big insult... he must justify his statements,"Â ... Human Rights Groups
The Herald
November 12, 2017
MANILA. — Donald Trump said yesterday he backed the US intelligence agencies who concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 USÂ ... Human Rights Groups
Vox
November 9, 2017
He has repeatedly mocked American spies for the mistaken conclusion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, a rationale that paved the ... Human Rights Groups
The New Daily
October 22, 2017
John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie in the limousine as it makes its way through Dallas. Photo: Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News. The New ... Human Rights Groups
Kasmir Monitor
October 20, 2017
NEW YORK: The US Central Intelligence Agency thinks that North Korea`s Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who is focused on staying in power ... Human Rights Groups
CNBC
October 19, 2017
The United States should make it more expensive for Iran to engage in "adventurism" in the Middle East, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said ... Human Rights Groups
Yahoo Finance
October 15, 2017
... it had found classified materials on a computer being monitored by U.S. spies,” and that the experiments “persuaded officials that Kaspersky ... Human Rights Groups
CyberScoop
October 14, 2017
Popular anti-virus software companies are a prime target for intelligence agencies because they have direct, continuous access into their ... Human Rights Groups
Edgy Labs (blog)
October 13, 2017
Three powerful countries are now in the midst of a real-life spy game that has shown the world how a popular application meant to protect ... Human Rights Groups
NEWS.com.au
October 12, 2017
SHE fled the UK for Syria with her young son to become an IS recruiter of female foreign jihadis. Now the CIA says Sally Jones was killed ... Human Rights Groups
Chicago Daily Herald
October 2, 2017
HAVANA -- AP sources: US spies working under diplomatic cover in Havana among the first and most severely affected by attacks. Human Rights Groups
ABC News
October 2, 2017
AP sources: US spies working under diplomatic cover in Havana among the first and most severely affected by attacks. Human Rights Groups
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