Espionage

Roald Dahl: Spy, Playboy

The Daily Telegraph | Chris Irvine | Posted 08.31.2008 | Media


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...

Mary McFate--She's the NRA

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


Josh Sugarmann

Intermittently for the past 25 years, the NRA has run a series of ads under the headline "I'm the NRA." Included are celebrities (like Washington Red...

The NRA's Dirty Tricks

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics


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.

Now I Get It

Paula Gordon | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics


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.

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

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home


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

Are You a Homegrown Terrorist?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics


John W. Whitehead

By Congress failing to define what an "extremist belief" is, what would constitute "ideologically based violence" or the use of "force," it could mean anyone who expresses a belief contrary to that held by the White House.

Of Turkish Spies and Other Moles...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics


Larisa Alexandrovna

My good friend Phil Giraldi has written a piece for the American Conservative about the Sibel Edmonds case. Below are some of the snips from his story...

Sibel Edmonds Speaks...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics


Larisa Alexandrovna

Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistle-blower who has been gagged for years by the Bush administration over intercepts she translated while at the bureau, was...

Blackwater Expands Into Spies For Hire

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics


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...

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

AP | Pamela Hess | Posted 09.17.2007 | Home


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...