Tag Archives: Espionage

Sun Tzu

Former Marine Sentenced To Death In Iran

From the Associated Press: TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran. Iran charges that as a former Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati received special training and [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Report: Obama Administration Traded F-16s In Order To Gain Release Of Israeli-American Held In Egypt

If true,  this makes Iran-contra look like a bake sale in comparison. From Ynet: Human currency? The Palestinian Maan news agency reported Thursday that the United States has agreed to sell Egypt several F-16 fighter jets in order to facilitate the release of Israeli-American Ilan Grapel. Israel had opposed similar sales in the past. Arrest people, and we will sell [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Secret Video Of Chinese General Discussing High Ranking Spies Is Leaked

This is a very embarrassing event for the Chinese government:  admission by a Chinese General that there are high-ranking spies in their government,  and that they have been successful is sharing secrets with Taiwan and others in the West.  There appears to be widespread corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government.  The motive [...]
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Seth  Mandel

The Islamists Battle Plan

After centuries of warfare in which secrecy and espionage often made the difference between winning and losing, we should be grateful that our current enemy has published–and then repeatedly called attention to–his battle plan. The only problem? Our senior leadership refuses to read it. That’s the primary takeaway from the briefing Big Peace attended by the Strategic [...]
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J. Michael  Waller

Spy-Hunter: WikiLeaks Should Be Handled as Espionage Case

One of the nation’s highest-ranking former spy hunters says that the individuals responsible for the theft and publication of tens of thousands of secret military documents should be prosecuted under federal espionage laws. The Obama Administration is pursuing the disclosure of more than 90,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks.org as merely the mishandling of classified information – [...]
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Adam Savit

Foreign Agents: What CAIR, Anna Chapman, and Rep. Mark Siljander Have in Common

Late last month provocative pictures of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman graced newspapers and blogs worldwide.  The stories alongside the mandatory eye-candy featured scandalous accounts of “spying” and “espionage.” But despite the insinuations, the Russian “spies” in question were never charged with spying or espionage.  Fox News reported that instead the ten Russians in American [...]
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Ken Blackwell

Spy Swap or Spy Flop?

The Obama administration is getting kudos for its quick action in the Russian spy case. Ten Russian spies were apprehended, allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of failing to register as agents of a foreign government, and put on a plane for Moscow.  We Americans like it when we see the FBI [...]
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David  Satter

A Bad Spy Deal: Ten Rooks for Three…and a Pawn

The Russian spy scandal, which Russian officials denounced as “absolute rubbish,” is now ending with a de facto Russian admission of guilt and an exchange with echoes of the Cold War. At stake was the fate of ten deep cover Russian agents (an eleventh managed to escape) who pretended to be ordinary American citizens and [...]
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Frank Gaffney

Spy Swap: From Russia, with Love

So, Team Obama has pulled another Christmas Day bomber hash-up.  Recall how, in the case of Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, after a grand total of fifty minutes of interrogation by the law enforcement folks who could be scared up in Detroit on that holiday, he was allowed to lawyer up. Flash forward to the news just in:  [...]
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Frank Gaffney

The Other Influence Operation

The revelation that eleven individuals allegedly were insinuated under deep and illegal cover into various communities around America by Russian intelligence for the purpose of influencing U.S. policy has been met here as much by puzzlement as outrage.  For most of our countrymen, the fact that these folks were apparently tasked, not so much with [...]
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