The way China dismantled US intelligence operations in their country was pretty wild when it happened. I doubt that trial will go his way, with how many of our assets were killed.
They should have sent a poet.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee's being charged as the mole who brought down most of the CIA's network in mainland China. He insists on a not guilty verdict.
The DGSE announced the arrest of a couple of its ex-agents as moles for China.
They became suspicious of it in December last year.
I’ll research on the DGSE case and find some info in case peeps seen are interested.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1971968/hong-kong-spotlight-over-secret-rendition
The South China Morning Post broke the news that MI 6 has a secret outpost in Hong Kong for rendition flights.
The article has more details, but one of those caught is a Libyan opposition leader when MI 6 agents pounced on him in Malaysia.
Edited by Ominae on Apr 15th 2024 at 4:38:00 AM
It's interesting how severely China has been pursuing counterintelligence lately. I get the sense they're making it an institutional priority, though it's hard to tell what they're thinking.
As far as the DGSE, they're very much a "shoot first and ask questions never" agency. They have a reputation for ruthlessness and are brutally efficient in their operations of choice. They had a noteworthy enthusiasm for breaking apart Soviet spy operations during the Cold War.
edited 26th May '18 9:03:21 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/france-chinese-moles-inside-the-dgse/
Found some stats on how many moles the MSS is running worldwide.
And the DGSI detected the double agents. And the spouse of a DGSE mole was also arrested.
I have an interest in cyber-espionage:
Study reveals North Korean cyber-espionage has reached new heights:
"An increasingly sophisticated North Korean cyber-espionage unit is using its skills to widen spying operations to aerospace and defence industries, a new study has revealed."
edited 27th May '18 6:42:18 AM by DeMarquis
Shin Bet officially announced Gonan Segev’s arrest on being a mole for VEVAK after it alleges that he was recruited in Nigeria in the 90s.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-bnd-spy-agency-employed-heinrich-himmlers-daughter/a-44465200
It's not significant, but Himmler's daughter was a BND employee for a short time under a fake name.
Anyone familiar with its history should know why it made the news.
The Bf V has mentioned that a German politician was being recruited to serve as a mole on behalf of the MSS.
Did some research and funny enough, Hong Kong doesn't consider espionage as a crime within the SAR even though there were cases of corporate espionage taking place.
And also considering Snowden lived there for a time before he went to Moscow.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44958530
Berlin has locked up a Vietnamese expat who has dual nationality with the Czech Republic on helping with the logistics to kidnap a supposed oil executive and ex-CPV member of corruption, reminiscent of Mossad.
Ex-CIA officer faces arrest over alleged Montenegro coup plot
The former CIA operative, Joseph Assad, has rejected the charges, saying he had been in Montenegro to provide personal security advice to a western political consultant, and calling on the US to reject any extradition request.
“This is a deception campaign against a loyal American who had no role in any crimes or coup in Montenegro,” Assad said in a statement issued on Saturday through his lawyer.
The accusation against Assad is the latest twist in a convoluted year-long trial in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, of 14 suspected coup plotters, including two Russians, nine Serbs and three Montenegrins accused of a conspiracy to bring down the country’s pro-Nato government and assassinate its then prime minister Milo Đjukanović.
Prosecutors claim the goal of the putsch, on the day of parliament elections in March 2016, was to stop Montenegro from joining Nato but it was foiled by the security services. Montenegro became the alliance’s 29th member two months later.
That's interesting news.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/no-place-hide-exiled-chinese-uighurs-feel-states-110800729.html
Got this news bit about the MSS trying to "reach" to Uighurs living/studying/working in Europe.
Pretty much any demonstration be it by Falun Gong or the Uighurs gets more than a few "curious" onlookers, even here. Intimidation, espionage etc. do happen, but it's next to impossible to catch any perpetrators.
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/espionage_more-spies-visiting-switzerland-as-diplomats/43960828
Switzerland notes that more people are "coming to Swiss soil" under the cover of diplomats, but are agents using the country as a base for operations.
There's info on the Federal Intelligence Service, which is created from the Service for Analysis and Prevention (DAP) with the Strategic Intelligence Service (SND).
Bellingcat started OSINT work on the supposed assassins responsible for deploying Novichok and the Russian MFA trying to paint the evidence presented as fake news cooked up by London.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45522614
BBC article mentions that Swiss intelligence agents scoped out and picked up two Russians casing a research lab in Switzerland that's suppose to work with the OPCW in analyzing potential WM Ds in Syria.
Russian embassy reps mention that it's just another case of anti-Russian hysteria.
A follow-up on Bellingcat investigating the suspects in the Skirpals case. The group did some investigating and found some interesting data, but Russian MFA accused them of getting some of their data through hacking even though the OSINT investigators said that they got it without any hacking done.
Most of the latter part of that drama is in their twitter.
Oh, bother.
The Kremlin accusing others of hacking to get dirt on them is a rather blatant No, You.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Today, a former head of Supo (or the Finnish Security Intelligence Service) Seppo Tiitinen released his memoirs (between 1978-1990). Nothing particularly revealing as such, some operations and cases that were unknown, but confirms things that had been known or speculated upon before.
Tiitinen was famous due to a list that was sent to him by West German intelligence. In it were the names of various individuals, that the GDR were interested in, although possibly not spies. He basically decided to put it under lock and key, being classified to this day due to its volatile nature at the time. The only thing he has ever said about it is those that definitely aren't on it.
Other somewhat dramatic things he talks about:
The KGB Line X (scientifc intelligence) and how it got into surprisingly high circles in industry, before being caught.
The fear of refugees after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This included the Ingrians, which was a far larger amount than expected but was handled. A bigger concern was the migration of Jews to Israel, through Finland. Apparently chatter had made its way to Supo, of Palestinian groups planning attacks on Finnish embassies due to this, but eventually direct flights were agreed upon from the former Soviet Union.
Edited by TerminusEst on Sep 19th 2018 at 3:05:59 AM
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Interesting tidbit mate. Not a lot of history with SUPO IIRC aside from the usual keeping an eye out on communists.
Bellingcat delivers again on the two suspects the Met is seeking out. And it seems that they're linked on an arrest made with regards on an attempted surveillance op in Switzerland as reported by the BBC.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a source that's not in Finnish. Applies to pretty much most of the history books relating to defence, security and intelligence around these parts. Sad, because there's some very interesting things that was going on.
This reminds me that two pretty exhaustive and interesting books on the subject were released during 2018. History of intelligence activity from the Grand Duchy of Finland to the current day.
Edited by TerminusEst on Sep 21st 2018 at 4:49:55 AM
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If I remember right, SUPO was assigned to investigate a Finnish official suspected of being a Stasi agent, but the said person won the case against them and got compensation.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146430/court-documents-claim-china-promised-take
An ex-CIA agent who was born in Hong Kong was arrested for leaking CIA secrets to the MSS via meetings in Shenzhen. The article has more info on why he left the CIA and what he's doing prior to the arrest.