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Afghan Spies' New Target: Afghan Troops

As attacks from inside mount, Afghans take precautions

(Newser) - Afghanistan's spy agency has a new target: Afghan troops. With attacks on US and Afghan troops by Taliban infiltrators on the rise, the National Directorate of Security is launching an ambitious spying program designed to identify any threats. In addition to the previously reported "special reconnaissance group" that...

CIA Fills Void in Iraq, Afghanistan

Agency expects to maintain large stations there for years

(Newser) - US troops may be leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, but the CIA isn't. The agency's stations in the two countries may see staffing levels fall off a bit, but they'll remain its biggest overseas locations for years, officials tell the Washington Post . The Obama administration is counting on...

Iran Arrests 'US Spies,' Short on Details

US agents sought to undermine Iranian elections: minister

(Newser) - Iran's intelligence minister says the country's secret services have arrested several people on charges of spying for the United States and seeking to undermine the March 2 parliamentary elections. Heidar Moslehi was quoted by state TV as saying that the suspects were in touch with their contacts outside...

Too Much Studying Can Be Illegal in S. Korea

'Hagparazzi' seek rule-breaking private tutors

(Newser) - South Korea’s got a new kind of secret agent: the private education spy. The government is cracking down on costly tutoring institutions, and it offers a reward to citizens who catch tutors breaking the rules. The institutions, known as hagwons, have sprung up nationwide, sparking concerns that wealthy kids...

German Spy Agency Loses Blueprints for HQ

Masterplan for $2B building missing

(Newser) - Embarrassed chiefs at Germany's spy agency have admitted that blueprints for the agency's new $2 billion headquarters are missing and might be in the hands of other spies. The plans include details of highly sensitive areas, including the building's logistical nerve center and anti-terror installations, the Guardian...

Black Spies Helped Union Cause in Civil War

Historians say they deserve greater recognition

(Newser) - With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us, experts on African-American history are hoping that a group of under-appreciated spies will finally get proper recognition for years of dangerous service, reports the AP . Some of the most useful intelligence-gatherers during the Civil War were black men and women...

Half-Naked Nazis Sneaked Into US: WWII Files

British spy documents reveal Germans' silliest moves

(Newser) - The Nazi war effort wasn’t limited to the battlefield: Hitler’s Germany also attempted an unorthodox campaign against the US that involved poison sausages, trick cigarettes, and swimsuit-clad saboteurs. Newly declassified British documents show that two teams of four Germans were dropped off on the shores of Long Island...

What the CIA Is Doing in Libya
 What the CIA Is Doing in Libya 
Mar 31, 2011 9:18 AM CDT

What the CIA Is Doing in Libya

Obama secretly authorized spies to arm rebels

(Newser) - CIA and British MI6 agents are on the ground in Libya , working covertly to help the rebels defeat Moammar Gadhafi’s forces—and they've been there for weeks, reports the New York Times . Spies from both countries have been scouting the locations of military targets like munitions depots for coalition...

US Woman Detained as Spy, Says Iran

State media claim 55-year-old was found with microphone in mouth

(Newser) - A 55-year-old American women has been detained in Iran, according to the state-owned newspaper, which claims she was found with spying equipment hidden on her body and "a microphone" between her teeth. Customs authorities allegedly detained the woman upon her arrival from neighboring Armenia without a visa, reports the...

Israeli Rabbi Blesses Spies' 'Honeytrap' Sex

Sleeping with the enemy has Biblical precedent

(Newser) - It's kosher for women working for Israel's spy agency to trade sex for national security, according to an Israeli rabbi. Rabbi Ari Shvat's study concluded that so-called "honeytrap" sting missions, which have repeatedly been used by Mossad, don't violate Jewish law, ABC reports. The rabbi noted that similar missions...

Brit Spies Used Semen as Invisible Ink
 Brit Spies 
 Used Semen 
 as Invisible Ink 
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Sep 26, 2010 9:31 AM CDT

Brit Spies Used Semen as Invisible Ink

Intelligence chief 'delighted' by discovery

(Newser) - More from the secret world of Britain's MI6: The spy agency apparently used semen as invisible ink during World War I. A new history claims that Chief Mansfield Cumming advised an intelligence officer that the substance makes "the best invisible ink," notes the Telegraph . Another staff member recalls...

MI6 History Reveals Real James Bond

Author reveals Ian Fleming's inspiration

(Newser) - An author given license to go through MI6's pre-1949 files says he's uncovered a few real-life inspirations for James Bond in the British spy agency's history, including the most likely devil-may care candidate. Commander Wilfred Dunderdale, "had a penchant for pretty women and fast cars" while heading up the...

State Department Spy for Cuba Sentenced to Life

Walter Kendall Myers, 73, confessed to espionage, wire fraud

(Newser) - A 73-year-old retired State Department employee who was also a spy for Cuba for almost 30 years was sentenced to life in prison today after pleading guilty to espionage and wire fraud. Walter Kendall Myers was also fined $1.7 million—including the money he was paid as a government...

Accused Spies: Yes, We're Russian

Virginia couple appear in court, want kids sent to Russia

(Newser) - Two suspects in an alleged spy ring have admitted they are Russian citizens living in the US under false identities, prosecutors said today. The defendants known as Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills told authorities after their arrest their real names are Mikhail Kutzik and Natalia Pereverzeva, prosecutors said in a...

Alleged Spy Left Island: Cyprus Official

Suspected Russian agent made bail, then disappeared

(Newser) - The suspected Russian spy who went missing in Cyprus after being granted bail has likely fled the island, the nation's justice minister says. Christopher Metsos, 54, is accused of acting as a go-between for an espionage ring in the US and Russian handlers. Prosecutors in the US are using Metsos'...

Alleged Russian Spies Hid in Plain Sight: FBI

Secret agents lived as couples, had kids: feds

(Newser) - The charges against 11 people who were allegedly spying for the Russian government sound like something out of a James Bond novel—one that involves suburban couples living under deep cover as the Russian government funds their "education, bank accounts, car, house, etc.," reports the New York Times ...

Feds Charge 10 With Spying for Russia

Agents were carrying out long-term, undercover assignments

(Newser) - Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating the US government, the Justice Department said today. According to court papers in the case, the US government intercepted a message from Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow to two of...

N. Korean Hackers Steal US War Plan

They grab 11-page file off unprotected thumb drive

(Newser) - North Korean hackers may have made off with secret documents outlining American and South Korean military plans in the event of a North Korean attack. Last month, officials discovered that a South Korean officer had downloaded the plan, codenamed Oplan 5027, on an unsecured thumb drive, and that his computer...

Russian Spies Accused of Leaking Climate Emails

Senior IPCC members say attack was pro job

(Newser) - The hackers behind the leaked climate change emails were none other than the Russian secret service, say higher-ups at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Panel members say the hack was a sophisticated, professional operation, and note that the emails were originally leaked from a server in the...

The Best of Cold War Cinema
 The Best of 
 Cold War Cinema 
OLD RELEASES
Nov 9, 2009 2:30 PM CST

The Best of Cold War Cinema

With the Evil Empire as the bad guy, Hollywood made some great flicks

(Newser) - Maybe the reason Betsy Sharkey is feeling nostalgic about Cold War flicks is that the era offered a clear, if flawed, idea that we were the good guys. Regardless, it made for some good movies. The Los Angeles Times critic's faves, by "capricious category":
  • Aliens: With "subtexts rich
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