Russia: US Has Too Many Spies In Moscow

“Even hinting at possible steps toward cooperation between our countries is currently seen in the U.S. as political suicide,” one Russian senator commented.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, to take part in a holiday reception in Moscow, Monday, June 12, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik)

Russia has accused the United States of having too many spies operating within its diplomatic offices, and of refusing to cooperate on diplomatic issues. “There are too many employees of the CIA and the Pentagon's espionage unit working under the roof of the American diplomatic mission whose activity does not correspond at all with their

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Mossad Turned French Spies Into Double Agents After Joint Syria Op

Le Monde reveals how Israeli espionage agency allegedly exploited a successful chemical weapons operation to get French counterparts to become sources; former head of French counterintelligence agency being questioned as suspect in case.

haaretz
By haaretz
Police officers guard the General Directorate for Internal Security headquarters in Levallois Perret, outside Paris, 2015. (Photo: Christophe Ena/AP)

PARIS – An internal report written by French intelligence, parts of which were published in the daily newspaper Le Monde on Sunday, reveal efforts by the Mossad to develop relationships with French spies, “to the point of crossing the line of turning them into double agents.” The audit report recommends investigating Bernard Squarcini, the head

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World Governments, Spies And Hackers Continue High Tech Cat And Mouse Game

From typewriters to quantum cryptography, governments are exploring old and new ways of keeping information secret.

Angela Waters
By Angela Waters

BERLIN, Germany — When news broke last year that the US National Security Agency had snooped on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone calls, Germans were outraged. Then Germany’s BND intelligence service was caught having spied on US Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton. By the time it emerged in September that the two

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Corporations Hiring Ex-CIA, NSA, FBI Agents To Spy On Activist Groups

The report details how corporations use their security teams, private contractors, and ex-federal agents to infiltrate nonprofit advocacy groups.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

Nonprofit organizations are the new targets for corporations willing to hire spies to undermine their goals and dismantle missions they perceive as a threat to their dominance and wealth. The Essential Information report, “Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations,” details corporate use of former CIA and FBI agents,

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