Analysis: Russian-Czech spy scandals show new direction in Russian espionage
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Last July saw the resignations of three Czech Generals, including the head of the president’s military office and the country’s representative to NATO, following...
View ArticleEven more underreported WikiLeaks revelations
It appears increasingly likely that Sweden will extradite Julian Assange to the United States, where the WikiLeaks founder will face espionage charges. But the WikiLeaks revelations keep coming,...
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Deported Russian spy gets Rosneft oil job. WikiLeaks defectors to launch OpenLeaks alternative. Former spies see benefits in WikiLeaks disclosures.
View ArticleEmirates authorities deny Oman spy ring allegations
The government of the United Arab Emirates has denied operating an espionage network in the neighboring Sultanate of Oman, saying that spying goes against the country’s values. The official denial was...
View ArticleCIA bank accounts used to funnel oil deal money, court documents claim
Court papers in a bizarre lawsuit involving $258 million in missing funds from an international oil deal, appear to show that the funds were channeled to dormant CIA bank accounts with the help of an...
View ArticleComputer hacking reveals Italian spying on Russia, India
Documents posted online by an anonymous hacker group point to extensive Italian espionage against Russian and Indian defense and energy deals.
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Colombia spy official imprisoned for illegal wiretapping. Cold War documents detail CIA interest of Canada. Ex-intel official says US must engage in cyber-spying.
View ArticleState prosecutors probe alleged plot to kill Greek prime minister
Government prosecutors in Athens have opened a criminal investigation into an alleged plot to kill the Prime Minister of Greece in 2008, which was reportedly uncovered by Russian intelligence.
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Putin adds spy chief to energy commission. US spy sat agency plans major expansion. GCHQ warns of 'unprecedented' cyberattack threat.
View ArticleExxonMobil executive shot dead ‘assassination-style’ in Brussels
A senior British executive of American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil has been killed in an alleged “assassination-style” shooting in Belgium.
View ArticleGerman intelligence report sees US leading global energy contest
A leaked geopolitical study authored by German intelligence sees the United States as the primary beneficiary of the world’s drastically changing energy balance.
View ArticlePoles who ‘spied for Russia’ worked on strategic natural gas project
At least one of the two men arrested in Poland last week for spying for a “foreign entity” was working on a project of strategic significance, aimed at reducing Poland’s dependency on Russian natural...
View ArticleISIS has lost control of most oil fields: German intelligence report
The Islamic State has lost control of approximately 95 percent of its oil production capacity following the advancing Iraqi counteroffensive, according to a leaked German intelligence report.
View ArticleAre Russian engineers working at an ISIS-controlled gas facility?
Syrian and American media are reporting that Russian engineers, employed by a Moscow-based contractor with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, are working at a Syrian gas plant under the...
View ArticleUS, UK, had secret plan to bomb Middle East oil facilities if Soviets invaded
Recently uncovered documents shed further light on an ultra-secret plan, devised by the British and American governments, to destroy oil facilities in the Middle East in the event the region was...
View ArticleNorth Korea secretly imports Russian oil through Singapore, says defector
The government of North Korea uses intermediary firms in Singapore to import thousands of tons of Russian oil each year, according to a senior North Korean defector who has spoken publicly for the...
View ArticleAustralia continues to detain whistleblower who revealed espionage behind oil...
Australia continues to deny freedom of movement to a former intelligence officer who revealed that Canberra bugged government offices in the small island nation of Timor-Leste, in an effort to secure a...
View ArticleMalaysia is helping Iran evade US economic sanctions, intelligence sources claim
Citing “Western intelligence officials”, Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Thursday that a deepening alliance between Malaysia and Iran is expected to enable Tehran evade some of the economic sanctions...
View ArticleIran announces arrest of 16 oil ministry officials for spying for CIA
Iranian state media announced on Sunday the arrest of 16 officials in the country’s Ministry of Petroleum, allegedly for sabotaging Iranian energy policy.
View ArticleAustralian ex-intelligence officer pleads guilty to disclosing spy operation
An Australian former intelligence officer will plead guilty to revealing an Australian spy operation against the impoverished nation of East Timor, which prompted international outcry and damaged...
View ArticleAnalysis: Iran’s energy sector is now a high-stakes espionage target
The state-owned energy sector of Iran, one of the world’s most lucrative, has become a major target of international espionage since the imposition of new sanctions by the United States this year.
View ArticleUS considering drastic increase in intel-sharing with Saudi Arabia after...
United States officials are considering increasing substantially America’s intelligence-sharing with Saudi Arabia following last weekend’s drone attacks that halved the Kingdom’s oil production and...
View ArticleOpinion: Saudi Arabia will not go to war with Iran, but it may pay others to...
Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik is baffled by the media speculation about the possibility that Saudi Arabia might go to war with Iran. Saudi Arabia does not “go to war”, she says —it pays others to do...
View ArticleUS and Saudi Arabia ‘suffered intelligence blackout’ during Iran drone...
Saudi Arabia and the United States suffered “a total and embarrassing [intelligence] failure” in the lead-up to the drone strikes that shut down half of the kingdom’s oil production last month,...
View ArticleTurkey offers to send troops to Libya as tensions rise with Greece, Egypt
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his country is prepared to deploy troops to Libya, just days after Ankara surprised analysts by announcing an agreement with the embattled Libyan...
View ArticleNorway arrests man for espionage that harmed ‘fundamental national interests’
Authorities in Norway will not release the name of a man who was arrested on Saturday, reportedly after he met with a Russian intelligence officer in Oslo.
View ArticleNorway expels Russian diplomat in espionage case involving Norwegian citizen
The government of Norway expelled a Russian diplomat on Wednesday, accusing him of committing espionage in a case that involves a Norwegian citizen, who has been arrested on charges of spying for...
View ArticleUS troops remain in Russian-dominated Syria with no clear goal, say insiders
American forces remain in Syria without a clear goal in sight, as the conflict there nears its 10-year anniversary, and with Russia having emerged as the principal guarantor of security in the war-torn...
View ArticleVenezuela claims capture of ‘American spy’ near major oil refining complex
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced on Friday the arrest of an alleged “American spy”, who was reportedly arrested near the largest oil refinery complex in the country.
View ArticleNo prison for Australian former spy who disclosed controversial espionage...
A FORMER AUSTRALIAN SPY, who prompted international outcry by revealing a controversial espionage operation by Canberra against the impoverished nation of East Timor, has been given a suspended prison...
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