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The spy who loved me: Charlotte Philby returns to Moscow in search of her grandfather Kim Philby

8 March 2010

The Indepdent, 6 March 2010: . . . As well as being my grandfather – whom I remember from childhood trips to Russia as a funny old man with a beaming smile, who dressed almost exclusively in white vests and braces – Kim Philby, to this day, remains one of the most significant double agents [...]

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Judge orders convicted spy Michael Ray Aquino extradited to Philippines for murder trial

8 March 2010

New Jersey Star-Ledger, 5 March 2010: A federal judge in Newark has ordered the extradition of a convicted spy and former Philippines police official accused of murder in his homeland. Michael Ray Aquino, who served nearly four years for possessing classified U.S. military documents, is charged in the 2000 murder of a high-profile Filipino publicist, [...]

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Spycatchers trap MI6 man ‘trying to sell secrets’

4 March 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2010: Daniel Houghton, 25, was caught in a sting operation after allegedly approaching a foreign intelligence agency offering to sell them information he had collected while working for the Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6. The files, which belonged to the domestic security service MI5, allegedly related to the capabilities of [...]

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Former British spy arrested for selling secrets

3 March 2010

AP, 3 March 2010: A former MI6 spy stole top secret files on intelligence gathering techniques and offered to sell them for 2 million pounds ($2.9 million) to an unspecified foreign government, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Prosecutor Piers Arnold told a London court that Daniel Houghton, 25, is alleged to have attempted to sell the [...]

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Stealing America’s Secrets: Chinese Espionage in the US

1 March 2010

CBS 60 Minutes, 28 Feb 10: We’re used to spy novels about the Russians, but today’s reality in espionage is different. China has just as good a spy network in the United States. And you are going to see a Chinese spy caught red-handed taking American military secrets from an employee of the Defense Department.
If [...]

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Caught on Tape: Selling America’s Secrets

25 February 2010

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CBS News, 25 Feb 10: “60 Minutes” has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of espionage and illustrates how China’s spying may now [...]

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The FBI agent who spied for the Russians

18 February 2010

Washington Examiner, 18 Feb 10: On this day, Feb. 18, in 2001, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested for spying for the Soviet Union in what is possibly the worst intelligence breach in U.S. history. Hanssen was taken into custody minutes after leaving a package of highly classified information under a wooden footbridge in Vienna, [...]

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Russian spy lived in Ohio, stole secrets

15 February 2010

Dayton Daily News, 14 Feb 10: Anyone looking up his name in the city of Dayton directory back in 1945 would have found nothing to raise their suspicions: “Koval, George. R 827 W. Grand Ave. Chemist, Monsanto Corp.” Nor would neighbors have noticed anything unusual about the tall, polite, bespectacled young man coming and going [...]

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Spanish Ex-Spy Convicted of Stealing Secrets

11 February 2010

AP, 11 Feb 10: A former Spanish intelligence officer was convicted on Thursday of trying to sell secrets to Russia and imprisoned for 12 years, in Spain’s first treason conviction since returning to democracy in 1978 after decades of military dictatorship. The Madrid Provincial Court said Roberto Florez Garcia, 44, took documents relating to spy [...]

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Today in History: ‘Doll Woman’ indicted for WWII espionage

11 February 2010

Washington Examiner, 11 Feb 10: On this day, Feb. 11, in 1944, Velvalee Dickinson was indicted in a plot to deliver messages to the Japanese during wartime through her doll business. Known as “The Doll Woman,” Dickinson used her doll shop in New York to send information about U.S. naval forces such as “Doll in [...]

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Trial for spy Noshir Gowadia delayed until April

10 February 2010

AP, 9 Feb 10: The trial for a Maui man accused of selling military secrets to China has been delayed until April. Noshir Gowadia’s attorney Birney Bervar said Tuesday that jury selection is due to begin April 6. The federal trial has been delayed several times since Gowadia was arrested and initially indicted in 2005. [...]

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Former Boeing Engineer Sentenced to Nearly 16 Years in Prison for Stealing Aerospace Secrets for China

9 February 2010

USAO/Central District of California, 8 Feb 10: SANTA ANA, California – An aerospace engineer was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison for his conviction on charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China for more than three decades while employed by Rockwell and Boeing, from which [...]

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Convicted Chinese Spy to Get Espionage Sentence

8 February 2010

AP, 8 Feb 10: An elderly Chinese-born engineer convicted of economic espionage for hoarding sensitive documents that included space shuttle details faces sentencing Monday, and prosecutors are seeking a 20-year term. A judge found Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 74, guilty in July of six federal counts of economic espionage and other charges for keeping 300,000 pages [...]

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Sorge’s Spy is Brought in From the Cold. A Soviet-Okinawan Connection

8 February 2010

Japan Focus, 7 Feb 10: The Sorge espionage case concerns one of the most spectacular instances of clandestine influence in the history of international relations.
In the mid-1930s, the former Soviet Union enlisted the German national, Dr. Richard Sorge and four others in Tokyo, secretly to collect information on the likely policies of the Japanese government [...]

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Spy Noshir Gowadia competent to stand trial

4 February 2010

AP, 4 Feb 10: A federal judge ruled last week that a Maui man accused of selling military secrets to China is competent to stand trial. Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway’s decision on Thursday, Jan. 21, regarding former B-2 stealth bomber engineer Noshir Gowadia agreed with an earlier ruling by a magistrate judge.
Gowadia’s [...]

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Georgian diplomat sentenced to 20 years on charges of espionage

29 January 2010

RT, 29 Jan 10: Vakhtang Maysaya, a former employee of Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was found guilty of espionage by the Georgian city court on Friday. Maysaya now faces a 20-year prison sentence. Maysaya, who was arrested in May 2009, was charged with transmitting classified data to foreign intelligence services during the time that [...]

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1960 CI History: Spy’s Sister Admits Contacts

28 January 2010

International Herald Tribune, 27 January 1960: KARLSRUHE, GERMANY — Alleged spy Horst Ludwig received mysterious orders from Soviet intelligence shortly before he was posted to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization naval base at Lossiemouth, Scotland, the West German Supreme Court was told today [Jan. 27]. Ludwig’s sister, Mrs. Hanni Jaeger, told the court she received [...]

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Trial begins of Spanish man suspected of selling secrets to Russia

25 January 2010

DPA, 25 Jan 10: The trial began in Spain on Monday of a suspected double agent charged with endangering national security by selling confidential information to Russia. Roberto Florez, a former agent of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty of treason. If he is only found [...]

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Ex-Pentagon official sentenced to 3 years in China spy case

22 January 2010

AFP, 22 Jan 10: The United States Friday sentenced a former Pentagon official who had a “top secret” security clearance to three years in prison on charges of spying for China, the Justice Department said. The 36-month sentence for retired air force lieutenant colonel James Wilbur Fondren will be followed by two years of supervised [...]

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Defense Department Official Sentenced to 36 Months for Espionage, False Statement Charges

22 January 2010

DOJ, 22 Jan 10: James Wilbur Fondren Jr. was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for charges involving espionage and making false statements to the FBI.
David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and John Perren, [...]

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Defense official’s mom introduced him to Chinese spy, court documents say

22 January 2010

Washington Examiner, 21 Jan 10: The mother of a high-ranking U.S. Department of Defense official introduced him to the Chinese spy he’s convicted of providing classified information to, court documents said. James Wilbur Fondren, the former deputy director of the U.S. Pacific Command Washington Liaison Office, was introduced to Chinese spy Tai Shen Kuo by [...]

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Stewart Nozette indicted as possible Israel spy

21 January 2010

Haaretz/Yossi Melman, 21 Jan 10: New documents presented in federal court in Washington, D.C. reveal deep ties (more than was known) between Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Dr. Stewart David Nozette, an American astronomer accused of spying for Israel. The media here covered his arrest on October 19, 2009 and then interest waned, though the [...]

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New details in Chevy Chase spy case

13 January 2010

Business Gazette, 13 Jan 10: The Chevy Chase scientist accused of attempted espionage may have impersonated a naval research official and stored classified information at his home, according to documents filed in federal court last week.
Stewart Nozette, 52, of the 100 block of Grafton Street in Chevy Chase Village demanded information on a classified national [...]

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Poland Arrests Russian Spy

6 January 2010

DPA, 6 Jan 10: Poland’s Internal Security Agency arrested an alleged Russian spy suspected of working for Russian military intelligence, the daily Dziennik reported Wednesday.
The suspect headed a small business and lived in Poland for more than a decade, the daily reported. He was arrested after his actions became ‘intolerable’ and ‘harmful’ to Poland, [...]

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Accused scientist spy breached top-secret policy in 2002

6 January 2010

Washington Examiner, 6 Jan 10: A Maryland scientist accused of giving classified defense information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer was under suspicion of breaching top-secret protocols as early as 2002, court documents said.
Despite the suspicion, Stewart Nozette was allowed to keep his clearance through 2007. It finally was stripped [...]

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Delay for start of DC spy trial of Stewart David Nozette

5 January 2010

CNN, 5 Jan 10: A snag over security clearances Tuesday delayed the start of an espionage trial for Stewart David Nozette, a former NASA scientist accused of trying to peddle national security secrets to someone he thought was an Israeli agent.
Nozette was arrested in October after a meeting videotaped by FBI undercover agents. The [...]

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US spy opposes Israel-Palestinian prisoner swap

2 December 2009

AP, 2 Dec 09: An American convicted of selling military secrets to Israel more than two decades ago is reportedly opposing a prisoner swap between the Jewish state and the militant Palestinian Hamas group.
The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday that convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard says Israel should kill its Palestinian prisoners rather than release [...]

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Ex-spy’s daughter at funeral: I’m not ashamed of you

1 December 2009

YNet, 30 Nov 09: Ex-spy Shabtai Kalmanovich, was murdered Monday in Moscow was laid to rest Thursday at a Petah Tikva cemetery. Dozens of mourners attended the funeral……
……Zichroni defended Kalmanovich’s image: “The Israeli public knew him on the backdrop of the criminal case against him that accused him of spying. But he wasn’t accused of [...]

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Second Peruvian Air Force NCO questioned in espionage case

1 December 2009
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Ruling delayed for Filipino jailed in spy case

1 December 2009

AP, 23 Nov 09: A judge has delayed a ruling on whether a former Philippine National Police officer who served prison time for receiving classified U.S. government documents will be extradited to face murder charges. U.S. Magistrate Esther Salas heard arguments Monday on Michael Ray Aquino’s attempt to fight extradition. Aquino and two other men [...]

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Former Olympics chief Juan Antonio Samaranch linked to KGB, book claims

1 December 2009

Daily Telegraph, 23 Nov 09: Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, worked in close association with the KGB, a new Russian book has claimed. The authors of The KGB Plays Chess even go as far as alleging Mr Samaranch may owe his election to the top Olympic job to the [...]

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Alleged Hawaii spy Noshir Gowadia found competent to stand trial

1 December 2009

AP, 23 Nov 09: A Maui man accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial. In part, Noshir Gowadia is accused of providing data on making cruise missiles and other aircraft less visible to radar or heat-seeking devices.
His personality may make him a difficult defendant, U.S. Magistrate Kevin [...]

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Walter and Gwen Myers plead guilty to spying for Cuba

20 November 2009

Washington Post, 20 Nov 09: A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades.
Walter K. Myers, 72, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage and wire fraud. His wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, pleaded guilty to conspiring to gather and transmit [...]

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Hearing begins for accused spy Noshir Gowadia

20 November 2009

AP, 20 Nov 09: A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.
But the forensic psychologists who evaluated Noshir Gowadia of Maui disagreed during the hearing over whether he is competent to stand trial and [...]

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Competency hearing for accused Maui spy Noshir Gowadia to begin

19 November 2009

AP, 19 Nov 09: A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer who is accused of spying for China is heading to federal court for a hearing on his competency.
Noshir Gowadia has been held without bail since his 2005 arrest on suspicion of selling cruise missile secrets. He has pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of conspiracy, [...]

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Former Estonian Foreign Intel Chief on Spy Hermann Simm

12 November 2009

Axis Globe:
The Russian intelligence used its agent in Estonia Herman Simm in full, the former head of the Estonian Foreign intelligence Ants Frosch believes.  Speaking today morning on air of the Estonian TV program Terevisioon, Frosch declared that recruitment of the agent and his further work for an intelligence agency of other country first of [...]

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Why did a top Israeli intelligence officer join the KGB?

12 November 2009

Haaretz/Yossi Melman:
The Shin Bet security service has for the first time gone public about the Shimon Levinson spy case, posting details about the affair on its official Web site. Levinson, a senior Israeli intelligence officer, was convicted of spying for the KGB in 1991 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was released after [...]

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