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Stewart Nozette (PICTURE): Scientist Arrested On Spy Charges Worked For Department Of Defense

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israel Espionage, Chevy Chase, Department of Defense, Spy Charges, Spy, Israeli Spy, Israel, Stewart Nozette, Stewart David Nozette, Espionage, Dod, Politics News

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

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Holocaust, Department of Defense, Doubleday, Mossad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Intelligence Community, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Strangelove, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet, Cia, Regime Change, Institute of World Politics, Tehran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Espionage, World News
Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Same Old Counterspy Failures Evident in Cuba Spy Case

Frank Naif | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, US-Cuba Relations, National Security, Fbi, Counterintelligence, Riggs Bank, Espionage, Cuba, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Will US security officials ever fix their broken spy catching system?

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Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kgb, CIA Interrogations, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Curveball, Enhanced Interrogations, Spying, Espionage, Politics News
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.

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Couple Arrested For Spilling CIA Secrets; Husband Was Vice-President of U.S.

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Valerie Plame, Andy Borowitz, Cia, Espionage, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

The couple was taken into custody after CIA analysts pieced together a patchwork quilt of evidence against him that one agency source called "devastating."

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Boeing Economic Espionage Trial Begins

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Corporate Espionage, Boeing Secrets, Dongfan "Greg" Chung, Dongfan Chung, Espionage, China, Greg Chung, Business News

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Chinese-born engineer stole trade secrets critical to the U.S. space program and passed them to China for three decades withou...

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A Defense Against Government Secrecy and Overclassification

Baruch Weiss | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Warrantless Wiretapping, Classified Documents, Bush Wiretapping Surveillance, Government Secrecy, Steve Rosen, Keith Weissman, Overclassification, Espionage, Politics News
Baruch Weiss

Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act, an almost-never used relic of World War I. The government also sought to have the defendants -- US citizens -- tried in secret.

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James W. Fondren Charged With Spying For China

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Department Official Charged With Spying, Spying for China, James W. Fondren Spying, James W. Fondren, Espionage, Defense Department, James W. Fondren Spying for China, Beijing-China, China, Politics News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with conspiring to give U.S. defense secrets to an agent for the Chinese g...

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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Happy Campers?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Sere, Cia, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Dia, Torture, Al Qaeda, Special Forces, Counter-Terrorism, Obama Terrorism, Spy, Espionage, Fbi, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta CIA, World News
Keith Thomson

A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.

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My Interview With Roxana Saberi's Lawyer: "She Was Shocked and Distraught"

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: The United States, Roxana Saberi, Espionage, Barack Obama, American-Iranian Journalist, World News
Omid Memarian

"Naturally after hearing the verdict, [Roxana's] psychological condition was not good. I gave her assurances and I hope to see the verdict changed during appeal."

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CIA-Approved Psychiatrist Treats Cloak and Dagger Set's Woes

Jeff Stein | Posted 04.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Therapy, crime_noir, Cia, Psychoanalyze, Spytalk, Ptsd, A.D.D., cqpolitics.com, David_L._Charney, case_officer, film_noir, Moles, Psychiatrist, Mole, Spies, Espionage, Fbi, old_town_alexandria, intelligence_directorate, adult_attention_deficit_disorder, national_clandestine_service, robert_hanssen, Obsessive-compulsive_disorder, aldrich_ames, post_traumatic_stress_disorder, directorate_of_operations, Larry Summers, Politics News
Jeff Stein

For almost 20 years, Dr. David L. Charney, 66, has seen a parade of CIA personnel come to his Alexandria, Va., office, looking for help with their emotional problems.

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Former CIA Officer Describes Retribution for Whistle Blowing

Jeff Stein | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Catch-22, Whistle-Blowers, Cia, Spies, Spying, Iraq War, baghdad_station, publications_review_board, darkess_at_noon, paul_gimigliano, Espionage, ilana_greenstein, arthur_koestler, World News
Jeff Stein

Ilana Sara Greenstein, a highly praised CIA operations officer for six years until quitting in disgust in 2008, says she was punished for complaining about gross mismanagement.

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"Pretty Blonde Spies" May Be A Threat, Warns European Union

BBC NEWS | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, European Commission, Spies, Intelligence Services, European Union, Espionage, Valerie Rampi, World News

The European Commission says it is being targeted increasingly by spies, who may include a "pretty trainee with long legs and blonde hair". The warni...

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Russia's Counter-Reformation

Brian Whitmore | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Human Rights, Legal System, Jury Trials, Treason, Dissent, Espionage, World News
Brian Whitmore

Aleksandr Podrabinek knows a creeping police state when he sees one. As a Soviet-era dissident he was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rig...

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What the CIA Doesn't Need You to Know

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Intelligence Agency, Ryszard Kuklinski, Michael Hayden, Cia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Espionage, David Ignatius, Journalism, Soviet Union, Politics News
Keith Thomson

CIA Director Michael Hayden is taking significant steps to soften critics of the CIA's overclassification and other obfuscations -- and perhaps even to rekindle America's confidence in the Agency.

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Russia Set To Redefine "Treason" And "Espionage"

Betraying The Motherland | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Treason, Russia Redefining Treason, Espionage, Russia Espionage, World News

At the behest of Vladimir Putin's government, Russian lawmakers are about to give the legal definitions of treason and espionage a little makeover. Ju...

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Roald Dahl: Spy, Playboy

The Daily Telegraph | Chris Irvine | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Roald Dahl, Espionage, Writing, Sex, Media News

A portrait of Dahl's Second World War years as an undercover agent attached to the British Embassy in Washington is painted in The Irregulars, publish...

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The NRA's Dirty Tricks

Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Espionage, Gun Violence, Mother Jones Magazine, National Rifle Association, Mary Lou Sapone, Mother Jones, Gun Control, Mary McFate, Spying, Nra, Espionage, Guns, Domestic Spying, Mcfate, Sapone, Mary Sapone, Politics News
Paul Helmke

When the National Rifle Association asks its members for their next contribution, they might want to disclose how much of that money will be spent to spy on gun violence victims and their families.

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Now I Get It

Paula Gordon | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Tim Weiner, Cia, Legacy of Ashes, Truthfulness, Espionage, Haynes Johnson, Covert Actions, Politics News
Paula Gordon

If you find a mess somewhere in the world, there's a good chance the CIA's fingerprints are on it. All over the world. For more than half a century.

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"Perfect Sleeper Agent": Chinese Spy 'Slept' In US For 2 Decades

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson | Posted 04.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Spy, Chinese Espionage Network, Chinese Sleeper Agent, Chinese Spy, Chinese Spy Network, Spying, Chinese Sleeper Cell, Chinese Espionage, Espionage, China, Home News

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer live...

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Blackwater Expands Into Spies For Hire

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Erik Prince, Cia, Cofer Black, Intelligence, Blackwater, Private Security Firms, Espionage, Iraq War, Iraq, Blackwater USA, Private Security, Spies, Politics News

First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence. The Prince Group, the holding company...

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Cold War Redux: Spy Chief Says China, Russia Aggressively Targeting US

AP | Pamela Hess | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Cold War, China, Cia, Russia, Espionage, Home News

China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official. Mik...

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