July 17, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Sources say leak included details of Britons who endorsed Afghan applications to be brought to UK after Taliban takeover Details of members of the SAS are among more than 100 Britons named in the database of 18,700 Afghans, the...July 15, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Teenagers suspected of being hired by criminals paid to carry out acts on behalf of states, it is understood Schoolchildren have been arrested by detectives investigating Russian and Iranian plots against Britain, a police chief has...July 15, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
The longtime chronicler of the spy agency on his Legacy of Ashes follow-up and what keeps him up at night It may seem perverse to pity the Central Intelligence Agency. The powerful spy organization’s history is rich with failures and...July 12, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue reading...July 10, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Parliamentary committee says UK is priority target for cyber and physical attacks as well as assassinations UK politics live – latest updates Iran’s intimidation, including the fear of physical attack and assassination of Iranian...July 10, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Pair accused of spying on Neptune missile programme, which is seen as critical to defence against Russia Ukraine says it has arrested a Chinese father and son on suspicion of spying on its Neptune anti-ship missile programme, a key part...July 10, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a Pulitzer In 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US...July 9, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
An embassy in West Germany | Norman Tebbit | Penis reduction | The Salt Path I can testify to the accuracy of John le Carré’s research, which you note with reference to a new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian libraries ( 8 July ). When...July 9, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Michael Briggs was a well-known scientist - and a fantasist. When his daughter Joanne began digging into his past for a memoir, new lies kept emerging ... Growing up in the 1960s, Joanne Briggs knew her father, Michael, wasn’t like other...July 6, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Court documents suggest Israelis were asked to carry out missions that were at first modest but quickly escalated Before Israel launched its war on Iran last month, its security service uncovered an extensive network of its own citizens...June 27, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Exclusive: Operation Wedlock lasted up to 20 years and took MI5 teams across world amid panic about ‘another Philby’ Britain’s spy chiefs were forced to launch one of the most sensitive and risky investigations since the cold war over...June 26, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Tailoring assessments to suit political prejudices undermines their very function and led us to the Iraq war In the run-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, journalists covering the preparations for war became familiar with the concept of...June 26, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Sir Mansfield Cumming | Community minibuses | Gaza and the BBC | Word salads Re your letter about C, MI6’s head, using green ink ( 19 June ), Sir Mansfield Cumming was an admiral before he became head of the Special Intelligence Service...June 21, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Every morning Mike Pritchard eats...June 11, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Accused held senior positions with Democratic Progressive party including one who worked for Taiwan’s president Taiwan prosecutors have charged four former staffers in the ruling Democratic Progressive party with spying for China while...June 9, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment The UK government’s decades-long efforts to keep details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA’s notorious post-9/11...June 1, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
The Canberra establishment thinks we must depend on Washington more than ever in today’s hard new world. That misses a vital point, Hugh White writes in this Quarterly Essay extract Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads...May 27, 2025 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Anyone can buy a tiny spy camera and hide it in a mirror, fake smoke alarm or public toilet. But why would they? As cases of voyeurism against women soar in the UK, victims say it’s too easy for men to get away with it The first time...May 7, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
CIA, NSA and Defense Intelligence Agency all included in ‘collection emphasis message’, report says Denmark has said that it will summon the US ambassador to Copenhagen to respond to reports that US intelligence agencies have been...May 2, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
CIA to lose 1,200 while NSA among other agencies reported to face downsizing amid president’s drive to shrink federal workforce The White House plans to cut staffing at the Central Intelligence Agency by 1,200 positions while other...May 2, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
US intelligence agency videos target lowly officials who are trapped working for a wealthy corrupt elite and whose fate is ‘precarious’ The CIA is on a recruitment drive for foreign spies. In their sights are Chinese officials and...April 29, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Trump has cut off Ukraine aid, brokered and lost a ceasefire in Gaza and took a sledgehammer to world commerce 100 days of Trump For US foreign policy, Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were the weeks when decades happened. In just...April 25, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, who died on 4 April 2024, was the son of top-ranking US spy Juliane Gallina An American man identified as the son of a deputy director of the CIA was killed in eastern Ukraine in 2024 while fighting under...April 21, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Anthony Wonke’s headlong documentary introduces Blerim Skoro, recruited in post-9/11 New York to become an inside man in the ‘war on terror’, then left in the field In the movies, the classic hazard for the undercover operative is...April 12, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illness Frank Wisner was a leading light of the early CIA, a director of clandestine operations who came of age in the second world...March 27, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retained A federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat...March 26, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
National intelligence head Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe argue ‘no classified information’ was leaked US politics live – latest updates US intelligence chiefs on Wednesday denied breaking the law or revealing classified...March 21, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain For more than a decade the senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, who has died aged 86, spied for MI6 before escaping execution by being dramatically smuggled out of...March 14, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I was about to go to Moscow. “A Russian...March 3, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen, docking at the Baltic...February 27, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a...February 25, 2025 from World news: CIA | theguardian.com
Brother of the Dalai Lama and envoy who led talks on the exiled leader’s possible return to Tibet with the Chinese government The life of Gyalo Thondup, who has died aged 97, was transformed after one of his younger brothers, Lhamo...September 28, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE PALESTINIAN MILITANT GROUP Hamas has published the name, address and photograph of an individual believed to be the incoming director of Israel’s security service.September 27, 2021 from intelNews.org
A JUDGE IN NEW Zealand rejected on Monday a request by news media to lift the ban on the identity of a soldier, who was arrested nearly two years ago for allegedly spying for a foreign country.September 24, 2021 from intelNews.org
EARLIER IN SEPTEMBER, FIVE members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and one member of Fatah escaped from the Gilboa Prison in Israel, by digging a tunnel under the prison walls. The escape was a dramatic surprise and caused wonder in the...September 23, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS summoned the chief Georgian envoy to Brussels, in response to allegations that European, American and other diplomats were spied on by the Georgian security services.September 22, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF Venezuela’s military spy agency has been captured in Madrid after two years on the run, and is now likely to be extradited to the United States, where he will face drug trafficking charges.September 21, 2021 from intelNews.org
A WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CLAIMS that a major Dutch oil firm paid millions in bribes to officials in return for lucrative contracts, is to be extradited to Monaco, following his arrest in Croatia last summer.September 20, 2021 from intelNews.org
ISRAEL’S PRIMARY EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE agency, the Mossad, assassinated the lead military scientist behind Iran’s nuclear program using a remote-controlled robot, according to a new report.September 17, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE SOMALI CAPITAL MOGADISHU remains tense today, after the country’s president and prime minster, who are supported by rival militias, leveled accusations at each other over an intelligence officer’s disappearance.September 16, 2021 from intelNews.org
Three former employees of American spy agencies, who helped the United Arab Emirates hack targets around the world, including United States citizens, have agreed to cooperate with the investigation into their activities.September 15, 2021 from intelNews.org
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ARE noticing early signs that al-Qaeda may be regrouping in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, according to the deputy director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.September 14, 2021 from intelNews.org
A GROUP OF COMPUTER hackers with links to the Chinese state is likely behind a major breach of networks belonging to at least ten Indonesian government ministries and agencies, including the country’s primary intelligence service.September 13, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE BIZARRE CASE OF the arrest of three dozen Russian mercenaries in Belarus in 2020, allegedly for trying to destabilize the country, was in reality a joint Ukrainian-American sting operation that went awry, according to a new report.September 9, 2021 from intelNews.org
A RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN has denied reports Moscow’s Security Council Secretary met secretly this week with the director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency in the India. The United States, however, has not commented...September 8, 2021 from intelNews.org
HIGH LEVEL DELEGATIONS OF intelligence officials from the United States and Russia visited India on the same day this week, for talks with Indian officials about the situation in Afghanistan, according to news reports.September 7, 2021 from intelNews.org
TURKEY AND QATAR, TWO countries with a growing diplomatic and intelligence network inside Afghanistan, are emerging as significant envoys to the Western world for the new government of the Taliban.September 6, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE DIRECTOR OF PAKISTAN’S powerful intelligence agency paid a surprise visit to the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, reportedly in an effort to mediate between rival factions of the Taliban.September 3, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE CONSENSUS VIEW OF British intelligence in the weeks leading to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban was that the Afghan government would be challenged, but that the rebels were unlikely to take over the country in 2021.September 1, 2021 from intelNews.org
CONCERNS ARE BEING RAISED by experts about whether the Taliban may have access to the biometric data of millions of Afghans —including those collected by the United States in its 20-year-long military campaign in Afghanistan.