Not directly espionage, but: Artem Uss, under house arrest in Italy and facing extradiction to the US for evading sanctions and imported US military technology, has escaped, probably with help of Russian intelligence. (I always thought that we should do something like that for Assange, but not surprised it was done for a governor's son instead. At least he was not under arrest for drunk driving or something. (Also, it is probably way harder to do this in Britain then in Italy)).
April 4 update: he showed up in Moscow.
Edited by Smeagol17 on Apr 4th 2023 at 5:35:59 PM
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-14/afp-charge-man-with-foreign-interference/102226298
AFP arrested an Australian man for accepting money from two suspected foreign intelligence agents operating in Australia with the names of "Evelyn" and "Ken".
He's being charged under one count of reckless foreign interference, contrary to section 92.3 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)
Cringe but free
She's a foreign intelligence officer! He's just Ken.
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Am I weird for being disappointed her codename wasn't "Barbie"?
Barbie as in the doll or "shrimp on the barbie, mate?".
The doll with a thousand different careers. Could've made this number 1001.
three people arrested for leaking Finnish defence secrets online (article in Finnish)
Three people, two of which were brothers who were both carreer officers in the Finnish Defence Forces and also conspiracy theorists, who leaked information about military tunels because they were certain they were linked to a global underground network as believed by Qanon adherents. The two also just ran for parliament as candidates for the Crystal Party and the third person arrested was running for VKK, the party formed around disgraced Basic Finns MP Ano Turtiainen, who has also been weirdly pro-Russian during the war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65284522
The Australian arrested by the AFP was identified as IT specialist Alexander Csergo. He's arrested after he came back to Australia from China, particularly Shanghai.
The unknown agents (Ken and Evelyn) are known to be the ones who met Csergo in Shanghai.
Jack Teixeira wanted to kill 'tons of people' and had Russian army pendants on bedroom wall
This feels like it should be some sort of parody - this guy's room is so utterly ridiculous I thought it had to be a post from Non-Credible Defense's subreddit - but apparently it's real. Dude must've been OBSESSED with the military, and had all the warning signs of being a future active shooter.
Alexander Shiplyuk, head of Siberia's Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), was arrested for handing classified documents to China in 2017.
ITAM had a letter published and said there's no way he can pass classified stuff to China.
Police arrested a Chinese man who worked at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Ibaraki for leaking details on research data on fluorine compounds.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-officer-foreign-interference-1.6913872
Ex-RCMP officer arrested for helping China target dissidents and Parliament M Ps.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/taiwan-vows-tighten-seals-army-officer-spying-3675251
A Taiwanese LTC (Lt. Colonel) was detained for trying to recruit active/retired servicemen to spy for China.
2 US Navy sailors arrested for providing sensitive information to Beijing. Both are Chinese-Americans, although one of them was naturalized.
Some people may have suggested (Reddit, so pinches of salt) that it can be done to drive wedges between Asian and non-Asian Americans.
Heard word that the mother of one of the sailors “persuaded” him to spy for China so that Beijing can hire him when he gets a discharge from the navy.
The Times has an interview with Prof. Anthony Glees regarding the arrest of three Bulgarian nationals. He thinks that they're not Bulgarians cause they've been caught with 19 passports.
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Why the scare quotes?
Heard from other news sites, but jives with what prosecutors are saying.
Old by a few days, but the Telegraph provides a good overview on how European intelligence agencies are taking out pro-Moscow spy rings operating in their soil.
It may or may not be locked, depending on whether you have Telegraph access.
Edited by Ominae on Aug 24th 2023 at 12:36:29 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66795596
Putting it here since Austrian intelligence is long troubled for having double agents working in the former BVT.
Also mentions that ex-Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl is in St. Petersburg to work at the Gorki Centre.
And also talked about Herbert Kickl since the Freedom Party's leading in the opposition polls. Ex-BVT director Peter Gridling (who got dismissed in 2018 due to raids by Austrian Federal Police that some BVT employees were giving FP members sensitive information) warned that the FP has contacts with Moscow.
World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) held a press conference.
Posted it here since the WSO rep called for protection on Sikhs from alleged retalion from pro-Indian groups. He also called for halt from sharing intelligence on counterterrorism and expel Indian diplomats who are alleged to be working with R&AW.
Phil Gurski, ex-CSIS agent, did suggest that it may be better if Trudeau just waited for the right time to make the reveal instead of doing it now. He did say that he did the reveal, which would make things hard for CSIS agents to potentially do their job.
RCMP started to launch a national security-based investigation (To non-Canadians, the agency has some departments dedicated to cases that can have links to national security) after Chinese-Canadian Wei Hu died supposedly from suicide.
The agency was told that an anonymous person told officers that Hu filed complaints that Chinese agents (likely sent by MSS) were trying to harass him and his family.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67036082
Interesting case.
Former US Army Sergeant Joseph Schmidt was detained at San Francisco after coming back from Hong Kong for trying to send classified info to China via the Ministry of State Security.
Reminds me of the two sailors who got arrested recently.
https://nitter.net/Global_Mil_Info/status/1710437078201176538#m
The twitter post (using nitter since twitter's restricted) has a list of search terms Schmidt checked out related to China.
Edited by Ominae on Oct 7th 2023 at 1:08:26 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/business/wsj-journalist-arrested-russia/index.html
A Wall Street journalist was arrested in Russia for espionage.
Of course, since this is Russia, it could be true, or he could be innocent and taken for preparation of a prisoner exchange with the West.
Edited by jawal on Mar 31st 2023 at 8:26:17 AM
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