espionage

The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022.
Global Politics
Ana Montes memorized classified US documents to leak to Cuban officials, author says
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity expert: Israeli spyware company NSO Group poses ‘a serious threat to phone users’
Four white men in suits sit on a panel with a green background
Critical State
Legislating peace and security: Part II
Image of young Vladimir Putin with Russian text
Global Politics
Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished KGB training manuals
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: CIA TV
Arts, Culture & Media
Theremin
Arts, Culture & Media
John Ridley on Spies
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 14, 2017.
Global Politics
Putin says US gripped by fabricated spymania, praises Trump
Former French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot, 41, left and Shi Pei Pu, 47, a singer in Chinese traditional opera face the judge as their trial began in Paris, May 5, 1986.
Arts
At 83, the embassy worker at the center of the ‘M. Butterfly’ story is still an enigma
The Elysee Palace, the French president's official residence, in Paris, France.
Global Politics
‘Russians are actively involved in the French elections,’ warns US Senate intelligence chair
Spying
Espionage in the Age of Terror
Full Episode
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during inprocessing at the temporary detention facility at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in this January 11, 2002 file photograph.
Justice
He blew the whistle on CIA torture, and now he’s finally home from jail — and talking
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sitting in a wheelchair, addresses the nation during a televised speech in Buenos Aires announcing an attempt to disband SIDE, the country's intelligence agency.
Global Politics
Argentina’s president declares war on ‘the power behind the power’ — her country’s spies
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on December 22, 2014.
Conflict
Russia’s ‘incompetent’ spies get nabbed in New York, but here’s why it doesn’t matter
Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital shortly before his death in 2006.
Justice
Moscow gets formal blame for the 2006 killing of a dissident in London
Former Bombe operator Jean Valentine shows a drum of British Turing Bombe machine in Bletchley Park Museum in Bletchley, central England, September 6, 2006. For the first time in sixty years Bletchley Park re-created the way the 'unbreakable' Enigma code
Technology
Alan Turing may have cracked Nazi codes, but thousands of women helped
A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Books
A huge intelligence screw-up turned the government and private companies into cyberwarfare partners
A tense moment during a game of "Mafia" in Kiev, Ukraine.
Culture
Entrepreneurs around the world love this Soviet-era storytelling game
Demonstrators gathered for a rally for American detainee Alan Gross in Washington, DC, during December 2013.
Justice
After five years in a Cuban jail, an American contractor is ‘literally wasting away’
The fictional film TRUE LIES featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis bears an uncanny resemblance to a real case of some British police officers who stand accused of deceiving and having sexual relationiships with women while working undercov
Justice
Here’s what happens when a spy sleeps with his targets
Hamas militants grab a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel before being executed in Gaza City on August 22, 2014. Hamas militants killed seven Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel in a public execution in a central Gaza squar
Conflict
Hamas tries to send a message to Israel — with an unprecedented mass execution
Conflict & Justice
A View from Inside the Wikileaks ‘Cyber War’
Security officers stand outside the U.S. Embassy in Berlin July 10, 2014. Germany asked the top U.S. intelligence official at the Berlin embassy on Thursday to leave the country, a highly unusual step reflecting the deep anger within Angela Merkel's gover
Global Politics
Spying on friends doesn’t necessarily make them enemies
A honeybee takes nectar from a flower in Tanzania, while pollen attaches to its body.
Global Scan
Where have all the honeybees gone? Barack Obama wants to know
A honeybee takes nectar from a flower in Tanzania, while pollen attaches to its body.
Global Scan
Where have all the honeybees gone? Barack Obama wants to know
Conflict & Justice
‘Anonymous’ Attacks Continue On WikiLeaks’ Behalf
Global Politics
China’s thoughts on North Korea, via diplomatic cables
Night Heron
Arts, Culture & Media
Need a summer read? Check out the new spy thriller, ‘Night Heron’
A combination photo shows the five Chinese military officers who the U.S. has accused of cyber espionage. Top row: Sun Kailiang (L), Huang Zhenyu (R), bottom row L-R: Wen Xinyu, Wang Dong and Gu Chunhui in FBI released photos.
Conflict & Justice
China isn’t happy, but where does the cyber spat with the US go from here?
One topic of discussion between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping when they met in California last summer was cyber espionage.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Obama administration has put China on notice — with indictments for cyber espionage
Rubik's cube doole by Google
Arts, Culture & Media
I’ll never think of Rubik’s Cube in the same way again, after Snowden
Arts, Culture & Media
Ex-hacker turns in army specialist for leaking video to Wikileaks
Satellite dishes at Britain's spy agency GCHQ, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall. GCHQ has tapped fibre-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal info
Global Politics
Why the British shrug at government surveillance… It’s Bond. James Bond
Global Scan
Iranian culture? Which one?
Computer with a series of numbers and logo of the United States' National Security Agency (NSA).
Global Politics
Could the NSA spying allegations derail or delay trade talks between the European Union and the US?
Merkel
Global Politics
The assumption is all countries spy on each other, but only one country has an eavesdropping nuclear weapon
Former NSA monitoring base in Germany
Environment
Blippex offers a new, and private, way of searching — but privacy is elusive
Predicting Crime Through Data
Conflict & Justice
What did Bradley Manning Disclose?
Global Politics
American diplomat expelled from Russia for spying evokes memories of Cold War
Arts, Culture & Media
CIA plays active role in managing its image in Hollywood films
Global Politics
Wikileaks claims U.S. financial companies are ‘blockading’ it, suspends operations temporarily
Global Politics
NYPD, aided by CIA, secretly monitors Muslim communities
Snowden Pulls Request for Russian Aslyum
U.S. Cracks Down on Leaks With Insider Threat Program
NSA Leaker Thomas Drake on Snowden’s Case
PRISM and Tempora: Why Germans fear Big Brother
Conflict & Justice
European Intelligence Agencies Not Surprised by NSA Surveillance
Conflict & Justice
Comparing the Manning and Snowden Cases
U.S. Secretly Collecting Telephone Records of Millions of Americans
Global Politics
National Security Agency Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans
Conflict & Justice
Bradley Manning: Traitor or Martyr?
Arts, Culture & Media
Keeping Up with the KGB Jennings: A New TV Spy Thriller, ‘The Americans’
Global Politics
The History of the CIA in Hollywood Movies
The Secret World of Espionage Comes to New York
Bush Era Surveillance Program Headed to Supreme Court
Podcast: The Spanish Enigmas
Top of the Hour: WikiLeaks New Document Dump, Morning Headlines
New WikiLeaks Document Dump
The Secret History of FBI Counterintelligence