Tag: Law/Crime
Saudi Arabia arrests ten Iran spy suspects
Saudi authorities have arrested ten more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago, according to an interior ministry spokesperson. The eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk bring the number of people arrested to 28, the
CIA approved AP report that triggered investigation
The Associated Press and the administration of United States President Barack Obama are at odds over whether or not the AP’s publishing of a May 2012 article on a foiled al-Qaeda bomb threat put the US in danger. The AP
16 Years for Espionage, Life in Jail for Whistleblowing
by Nathan Fuller, April 18, 2013 Spc. William Millay, a 25-year-old military policeman, was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in jail, a sentence reduced to 16 years after a plea deal, minus time served, for attempting to commit espionage and
Pakistani man arrested for military espionage in Germany
BERLIN: A Pakistani man working in a German technology research centre has been arrested and detained on suspicion of military espionage, Germany’s state prosecutor said Thursday. The 28-year-old employee was registered as a student at the centre where he worked
Former NASA Langley Research Center contractor arrested by FBI in Va. on plane bound for China
NORFOLK, Va. — A Chinese national who worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center has been arrested on a plane bound for Beijing on charges of lying to federal agents. Bo Jiang made his initial appearance Monday in Norfolk federal court.
Feds: Defense Contractor Gave US Weapons, Nuclear Intelligence To Chinese National
HONOLULU (AP) — Federal authorities say a civilian defense contractor who works in intelligence at Pacific Command gave his Chinese girlfriend information on existing war plans and U.S. nuclear weapons. Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, appeared in court Monday to face
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 lesser charges, explains motive
The Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty to 10 charges Thursday and offered an impassioned defense of his actions, arguing that he sought to spark a national debate about what he
Poisoned spy was working for foreign intelligence
LONDON – Russian Alexander Litvinenko was a “registered and paid” agent working for Britain’s foreign intelligence agency when he died after being mysteriously poisoned, a lawyer representing his widow told an official hearing Thursday. Another lawyer said the U.K. has
European Court Backs C.I.A. Rendition Victim
BERLIN — After years of legal struggles, a German man mistaken for a terrorist who was abducted and held captive for months in 2004 won a measure of redress on Thursday when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that
UN war crimes tribunal sentences Bosnia Serb intelligence chief over Srebrenica and Zepa
A United Nations war crimes tribunal today sentenced a former Bosnian Serb military chief to life imprisonment after convicting him of genocide and other crimes linked in part to the murders of Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in
Submarine expert arrested after ‘attempting to hand over Navy’s secrets to FBI agents posing as Russian spies’
Former U.S. Navy submarine warfare specialist Robert Patrick Hoffman II was arrested Thursday morning on charges of turning over classified information to undercover FBI agents posing as representatives of the Russian Federation. Hoffman, 39, of Virginia, allegedly gave the agents
Swiss spy agency warns U.S., Britain about huge data leak
(Reuters) – Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland's intelligence service, European national security sources said. Intelligence agencies in the United
Italy court upholds “rendition” convictions on ex-CIA agents
ROME (Reuters) – Italy's highest court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts on 23 Americans for the kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric, in the first criminal convictions for CIA "rendition" flights during the U.S. 'war on terror'. The Americans –
US man admits China spy attempt
A US man who worked as a guard at a US consulate in China has pleaded guilty to trying to sell secret information to the Chinese government. Bryan Underwood, 32, worked at the consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou
Shot Americans were CIA agents, officials say
The two Americans who were injured when gunmen fired on an American Embassy vehicle last week were CIA employees sent to bolster Mexican efforts to fight drug traffickers, officials said Tuesday. The two operatives, who were wounded Friday, were participating
Julian Assange: UK seeks diplomacy with Ecuador
The UK has insisted it will not grant Julian Assange "safe passage" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution to him being given asylum. Downing Street said the government was obliged to extradite Mr Assange to Sweden where he
CIA “overlooked” Osama bin Laden movie documents
The Central Intelligence Agency says it "inadvertently overlooked" documents related to its assistance to filmmakers creating a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid and failed to hand them over as part of a lawsuit against the CIA and the
Fresh call on Assange ‘espionage’
The head of the United States Senate's powerful intelligence oversight committee has renewed calls for Julian Assange to be prosecuted for espionage. The US Justice Department has also confirmed WikiLeaks remains the target of a criminal investigation, calling into question
UK hackers admit plotting attacks on CIA, firms
LONDON (Reuters) – Two British hackers pleaded guilty in a London court on Monday to plotting attacks against computers of international firms, law enforcement bodies and government agencies including the CIA, in a cyber crime spree that gained global attention.
Iran executes alleged Mossad agent for scientist killing
DUBAI – Iran has hanged a man it said was a Mossad agent whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at
