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SLIDESHOW: CIA Spy Tools You've Never Seen Before

Reuters | Patricia Reaney | Posted 05.21.2012

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heros and vi...

WATCH: Incredible Laser Camera Sees Around Corners

Posted 03.22.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi, InnovationNewsDaily Contributor Published: 03/21/2012 06:11 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Using a combination of ultra-fast...

Cold War Spy Gear Put On Display In Ohio

Posted 01.30.2012

Tariq Malik, SPACE.com First Published 01/30/2012 07:41 AM EST A trio of once-secret U.S. spy satellites built to look down o...

The Mysterious Death of Ahmad Rezaee: Whodunit?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 01.17.2012

Haggai Carmon

Ahmad Rezaee (31) an Iranian national was found dead on November 12, on the floor of room 23 on the 18th floor of Gloria Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road i...

Judge Orders Accused Syrian Spy From Va. Held In Jail

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 12.28.2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man accused of acting as a Syrian spy is a flight risk and should remain in jail while he awaits trial, a federal j...

Another British Hit Is Coming To America

Posted 12.27.2011

After the British series "Misfits" made such a splash after Hulu exclusively aired Series 1 and 2 of the hit UK show on their site, it looks like vide...

What's The CIA Doing At NYPD? Depends Whom You Ask

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.17.2011

WASHINGTON — Working inside the New York Police Department is one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives. He arrived in July as th...

Vulture Accused of Being a Spy

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011

David Mizejewski

Today's Animal Oddity is the griffon vulture that was detained by officials in Saudi Arabia as an Israeli spy. I know this sounds like something out of the Onion or SNL, but it seems to be true.

CIA Agent Spied For Russia: Needed Money For Divorce And Child Custody

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

PORTLAND, Ore. — The highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage was expected to plead guilty to additional charges that he tried to...

Going Indie: From Screenwriter to Publisher

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Hoyt Hilsman

For now I am enjoying the freedom -- and rewards -- of being my own publisher. And I am looking forward to the prospect of publishing the next book in my series of thrillers early next year.

Russian Spy Defector Choked On Meat, Autopsy Finds

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

TAMPA, Fla. — An autopsy shows that a top Russian spy who defected to the U.S. choked to death on a piece of meat. A Florida medical examiner's r...

CIA Sues Former Spy Over Book

ABC | MATTHEW COLE | Posted 05.25.2011

A CIA lawsuit threatens to turn a little-known two-year-old tell-all by a disgruntled former spy into a bestseller. Within hours of the lawsuit's fili...

MI6 Agents Shockingly Similar To 007

Bloomberg | George Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

The reputation of intelligence men for high living, burnished by Ian Fleming's James Bond, was often deserved. One of Cumming's earliest agents demand...

Ex-Spy: There May Be 50 Undercover Russian Couples In US

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it ...

Taliban Reportedly Executes 7-Year-Old Afghan 'Spy'

CNN | Matiullah Mati | Posted 05.25.2011

Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday...

George Lois: His Formula, Revealed

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Andrea Chalupa

Many significant artists and great media minds today worship at the Church of George Lois, the legendary art director who captured the turbulent 1960s...

CIA Sought Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, Alleged 'Gay Terrorist,' To Penetrate Al-Qaida

New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011

... A new story about the run-up to 9/11 has emerged--a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda a year and...

Schools Must Stop Spying on Students : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer February 24, 2010

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Shelly Palmer

As the Comcast-NBCU merger nears approval, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is calling for Comcast to continue to make NBC programs available for fre...

Taliban Spy Killing: Alleged U.S. Spies Found Dead In Pakistan

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN and RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 05.25.2011

ISLAMABAD — A top Taliban leader picked up in Pakistan as part of a recent crackdown on insurgents will be handed over to Afghanistan, an Afghan...

War Communication Before Modern Technology

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Kate Kelly

The Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps, convinced Union Major General George B. McClellan to permit him to attempt to relay information via telegraph, but from a balloon.

Mussolini And MI5: Documents Reveal Italy's Fascist Dictator Was Once British Agent

The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 05.25.2011

Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...

Pentagon Emails Suggest Distrust Over Ally Canada

AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Can Canada be trusted? In the midst of what turned out to be a bogus espionage scare over commemorative coins, senior Pentagon off...

Stewart Nozette: Scientist Arrested On Spy Charges Worked At Department Of Defense

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested Monday on charges of attempting to pass along...

Craig Monteilh: Self-Proclaimed FBI Mosque Spy Gets Special Treatment

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WEST COVINA, Calif. — A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a fe...

U.S. Spy Strategy Released; Intel Chief Dennis Blair Comments On 9/11

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...