Notorious Spy Cases Around The World (PHOTOS)

From new reports of a detained American found with "technology" hidden in her teeth in Iran to the ongoing fervor over deported Russian "bombshell" Anna Chapman, spies have been dominating recent headlines.

With tales of assumed identities, state-of-the-art technology and other false fronts, the spies are portrayed, at least in print, like characters lifted from a James Bond film. And animals are getting in on the espionage action, with a griffon vulture being "arrested" for spying on Israel's behalf in Saudi Arabia.

Take a look at some of the most notorious spy cases, or at least allegations, in recent memory here:

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Israeli 'Spy Vulture'

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On Jan. 5, Saudi Arabia "arrested" a vulture on suspicion of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Police allege the vulture, which was shot and wounded while trying to fly the coop, was wearing a GPS satellite transmitter and an identification tag which read, "Tel Aviv University - R65," and had a "a foul odor coming out of its mouth, proof of a Zionist plot."

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On Jan. 5, Saudi Arabia "arrested" a vulture on suspicion of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Police allege the vulture, which was shot and wounded while trying to fly the coop, was wearing a GPS satellite transmitter and an identification tag which read, "Tel Aviv University - R65," and had a "a foul odor coming out of its mouth, proof of a Zionist plot."

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[xtiangodloki]

08:29 AM on 01/12/2011

Horrible list with heavy bias towards middle east politics.

If the author is serious the list should of at least included Philip Agee. My guess is that the author is more interested in other agendas.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

01:16 AM on 01/10/2011

That picture, when I was in high school, isn't that what the girls called pancake make-up? She looks to me like a rather common young woman who has been labeled as attractive, because she is young and still has tight skin and is not otherwise homely. Never the less, I see just another phony mask.

[pierre F Lherisson]

03:42 PM on 01/09/2011

A vulture cannot be arrested because only a person can be arrested. Arrest means forcible restraint of a person that committed an unlawful act to deprive a person of his or her liberty. The arresting officer must present adequate evidence to a impartial judge or magistrate to establish probable cause that a crime has been committed. Even if the vulture was cognizant of its unlawful action it won't be able to have a dialog with the arresting officer or with the judge because inter-species communication between human and other earthbound life forms is very difficult. A vulture can be intercepted which means to seize before arrival. A vulture cannot be a spy because it does not have cognitive ability to observe and make assessment and reports.
The report should have said vulture doted with spy devices was intercepted and captured.

[Timma]

01:51 PM on 01/09/2011

Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

Oh I saw you by the wall
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow

Oh Nikita You will never know anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Nikita I need you so
Oh Nikita is the other side of any given line in time
Counting ten tin soldiers in a row
Oh no, Nikita you'll never know

Do you ever dream of me
Do you ever see the letters that I write
When you look up through the wire
Nikita do you count the stars at night

And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend

Sir Elton John

[LMPE]

01:56 AM on 01/09/2011

Even more famous is James Bond. Actually, he doesn't do much espionage, but he does bed a lot of hot babes.

[captainindustry]

11:44 AM on 01/08/2011

Hey. Who wouldn't give up a some dusty old secrets and a few thousand lives for an evening with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNinzamNV7I

[PRONESE]

06:13 AM on 01/08/2011

The Walker family.
More Coffe...
R/ PRONESE

[AirViceMarshalPark]

01:03 AM on 01/08/2011

The best spy of all time was "Garbo" in WWII. He ran 23 fictitious agents that the Germans took to be real and refused to believe were fictions until decades after the war. Germany awarded Garbo the Iron Cross.

He looked like your grandmother's long time grocer.

[Paul Houston]

07:44 AM on 01/08/2011

Don't forget that there is still speculation about who Admiral Canaris (Head of the Abwher) was working for.

[captainindustry]

02:38 PM on 01/08/2011

Fanned for reminding me about him. I haven't heard that name in years.

Joan Pujol García (Catalan), also known as Juan Pujol García (Spanish), MBE (14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), was a double agent during the Second World War who was known by the British codename Garbo and the German codename Arabel.[1] He had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy towards the end of war. The false information Pujol supplied helped persuade German intelligence the main attack would be in Pas de Calais, resulting in a decision by the German government to deploy the main body of troops there instead of in Normandy.

[AirViceMarshalPark]

06:47 PM on 01/08/2011

Garbo's credibility with Germany was maintained by feeding them a great deal of correct information, as well. Garbo made sure that the info got to them just a little bit late or was somewhat incomplete. The Germans were astounded at his ability to ferret out the truth and communicate it to them. The fact that he ran so many fictitious agents meant the he could cite information from "independent" sources that were, in reality, only him.

[ObjectiveReality]

09:49 PM on 01/07/2011

I thought Israel was an US "ally"? hahahaha

dumb Americans...

[cliffhammond]

08:33 PM on 01/07/2011

Why isn't Joe Lieberman's picture among the slides?

[mlkx]

07:20 PM on 01/07/2011

On this list the examples of US citizens going abroad to spy on behalf of the US government are ones where the validity of the charges have been widely reported to have been dubious or seriously called into question within the media.

If I am to 'understand' this story correctly, the charges against US citizens arrested aborad for spying are usually dubious.

Thanks for reinforcing the propaganda.

[OldHick]

05:57 PM on 01/07/2011

No Chinese spies? In Commerce, Energy, EPA, Labor? NSF? NASA? I do not believe it.

[captainindustry]

02:40 PM on 01/08/2011

Industrial spies just don't have the same panache... And you know how HuffPo luvs dem Ruskie hotties.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

01:19 AM on 01/10/2011

"...And you know how HuffPo luvs dem Ruskie hotties." That would be the corporate media.

[Magic 62]

05:30 PM on 01/07/2011

The story about the American woman being arrested in Iran turned out bogus.

[repatriate]

05:28 PM on 01/07/2011

Strangest set of spy stuff randomly thrown together I've seen in a long time.

No mention of the Mossad assassination squad caught on tape in Dubai.

How about the roomful of CIA agents blown up last year in an Al Qaeda strike in Afghanistan?

Ana Belen Montes, the Cuban agent arrested in 2001?

I think we're doomed to repeat a few things if this article is the best our liberal bloggers can come up with in terms of spy cases.

[Checkpoint Charlie]

07:44 PM on 01/07/2011

I agree...There have been some hot spy vs spy stories this past year too. Motorcycle assasians with magnetic bombs, 2 Sukhoi Pak Fi scientists both having heart attacks in their hotels. As you mentioned Dubai.

[Checkpoint Charlie]

07:47 PM on 01/07/2011

Oh yeah and my favorite the Chineese spy that applied to the CIA. "tried to conceal $70,000 in payments from the Beijing government and denied his “numerous” meetings with Chinese intelligence officials, according to the government’s indictment."

[rcozad]

04:42 PM on 01/07/2011

Perhaps the "foul odor coming out of his mouth" may have been caused by the large rat he just ate! just thinking