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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...

Russian Jailed as US Spy
 Russian Jailed as US Spy 
May 14, 2010 5:35 AM CDT

Russian Jailed as US Spy

Found guilty of sending classified maps to the Pentagon

(Newser) - A Russian national accused of spying for the US has been sentenced to 4 years in jail by a Moscow court. Security service officials say Gregory Sipachev sent classified military maps over the Internet to the Pentagon's in-house intelligence service, the BBC reports. The court said Sipachev, whose occupation was...

Iran OKs Visit by Moms of Detained US Hikers

But Tehran has made promises in the past

(Newser) - Iran will allow the mothers of the three American hikers who have been in custody for nearly a year to visit their children. Tehran has ordered its UN mission to issue visas for the three moms, the AP reports, but no date has been has been set. Iran has told...

China Web Attack 'Massive Spy Assault on US'

Hackers targeted defense, tech firms as well as activists

(Newser) - The cyberattacks on human rights activists that sparked Google's threat to quit China were part of a massive spy campaign targeting American financial, defense, and technology firms, according to security experts. The highly sophisticated attacks used email attachments to access the networks of at least 34 firms, including Yahoo and...

Iran Accuses American Hikers of Espionage

Opinion on 3 arrested in July 'in the not distant future:' prosecutor

(Newser) - The three American hikers detained by Iran in July have been accused of espionage, a senior Iranian prosecutor says. The three, who the US maintains were on a hiking vacation in Iraq when they accidentally strayed across the poorly-marked border, "have been accused" and the investigation is ongoing, he...

Russian Sports, Concert Tycoon Gunned Down

Shabtai von Kalmanovic, 60, know for importing WNBA stars

(Newser) - A former KGB agent turned sports- and concert-promoter was gunned down today in Moscow, with the submachine gun-toting assailants pulling alongside Shabtai von Kalmanovic’s Mercedes and killing him nearly instantly in a hail of bullets. Kalmanovic, 60, brought stars of the WNBA to Russia during its off-season to play...

Top US Scientist Busted for Spying

Space researcher accused of trying to sell secrets to Israel

(Newser) - A leading American space scientist has been charged with attempted espionage after being busted in an FBI sting operation. Stewart Nozette, who worked on classified aerospace projects for agencies including NASA and the Department of Defense, was arrested when he attempted to pass secrets to an FBI agent posing as...

Rings Writer Tolkien Trained as WWII Spy

Hobbit creator turned down chance to join codebreaking team

(Newser) - Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a British spy in early 1939, the Daily Telegraph reports. Newly released records show that Tolkien—one of his generation's foremost linguists—was given spy training along with 50 other intellectuals and had been picked to join the team trying...

Spying 101: US Wants Colleges to Train 007s

Spying 101 plan aims to mold future intelligence officers

(Newser) - It's like a cloak-and-dagger version of ROTC. The government wants universities to help train the next generation of spies, the Washington Post reports. The proposed program would recruit first- and second-generation students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the Mideast and Asia in particular, and run them through a specialized set of...

No 'False Flag' for China Spy
No 'False Flag' for China Spy
Jun 11, 2009 9:12 PM CDT

No 'False Flag' for China Spy

Claim that Pentagon mole thought he was dealing with Taiwan not true, indictment reveals

(Newser) - A Pentagon official who said he was tricked into giving classified information to China by an agent who claimed to work for Taiwan was actually aware for a full decade that he was dealing with China, the AP reports. The indictment today of James Fondren Jr also revealed that Fondren...

Fidel Disses 'Comic Strip' Spy Charges for US Couple

But he commends those who help Cuba

(Newser) - Fidel Castro has dismissed the charges against an American couple charged with spying for Cuba as baseless, reports Reuters. While he has not confirmed or denied the accusations against former State Department official Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Castro wrote on his website that he had no memory of...

Pentagon Official Accused of Aiding Chinese Spy

He conspired to provide China classified info: feds

(Newser) - A Pentagon employee has been charged with conspiracy to share classified information with someone he thought worked for the Taiwanese government who was actually an agent of China, according to documents unsealed today. James Fondren Jr. was allegedly party to an espionage conspiracy from 2004 to 2008. Fondren, 62, has...

Nabbed Oracle Spy Rocks America's Cup

Cup holders accuse American billionaire of sending spy squads to snoop on yacht

(Newser) - Skulduggery has once again hit the world's foremost sailing race with charges that a spy for US billionaire Larry Ellison's BMW-Oracle team was nabbed snooping on a rival, the Times of London reports. Spokesmen for Alinghi, the Swiss holders of the America's Cup, say they caught the spy sneaking around...

Smiling Saberi 'Happy' to Be Free
 Smiling Saberi 
 'Happy' to Be Free 
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May 12, 2009 6:56 AM CDT

Smiling Saberi 'Happy' to Be Free

Father says she battled 'psychological pressure' in prison

(Newser) - Journalist Roxana Saberi says she’s “very happy” to be free and reunited with her parents and today thanked those who helped win her freedom from an Iranian prison, the AP reports. One of her lawyers said her conviction was partially because she had visited Israel, illegal for Iranian...

Saberi Freed by Iran, United With Parents
 Saberi Freed by Iran, 
 United With Parents
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May 11, 2009 6:17 AM CDT

Saberi Freed by Iran, United With Parents

Jailed US journalist has prison term cut to two years suspended

(Newser) - Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American reporter jailed in Tehran for the last 5 months, has been freed and reunited with her parents, the AP reports. An appeals court yesterday cut her sentence to a 2-year suspended term, down from the 8 years she was given for spying for the US. The...

Court to Hear Saberi Appeal Tomorrow

(Newser) - Roxana Saberi’s appeal hearing will take place tomorrow, Reuters reports. The lawyer for the jailed American-Iranian journalist said it’s unclear when his client will find out if her 8-year sentence for espionage has been dropped or reduced. "The verdict could come next week or any other time,...

Iran to Hear Detained Journo's Appeal Next Week

Iranian officials continue to deny that Saberi is on hunger strike

(Newser) - Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi will get her chance to overturn or lighten an 8-year prison sentence for spying early next week, when an Iranian court will hear her appeal, Reuters reports. Saberi’s father said the 32-year-old is “very weak,” having been on hunger strike for two weeks....

Feds Drop Spying Charges Against AIPAC Lobbyists

Earlier rulings made conviction unlikely: gov't

(Newser) - Government prosecutors say they will move to dismiss the espionage case against a pair of former AIPAC lobbyists linked to Rep. Jane Harman, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors said they probably wouldn’t be able to secure a conviction because of the “additional intent requirement imposed by the court,...

NATO Boots 2 Russians for Spying on HQ

Moscow charges expulsion is ploy to sabotage relations

(Newser) - NATO has expelled two Russian diplomats from its Brussels headquarters for spying, officials announced. The expulsion of the diplomats, one of whom is the son of Russia's EU ambassador, provoked an angry response from Moscow, which accused NATO of deliberately sabotaging relations. The spy scandal is the most serious rift...

Jailed Journo in Iran Plans Hunger Strike

(Newser) - The Iranian-American journalist jailed on spy charges in Iran has told her parents she plans to begin a hunger strike tomorrow, reports George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. Roxana Saberi's parents said they tried to talk her out of it to no avail. They also told Stephanopoulos—who's in Iran for...

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