Espionage

Summary of the espionage-related news stories for the Week 12 (March 19–25) of 2023. — 1. U.S. Intelligence Helped India Rout China in 2022 Border Clash US News reported on March 20th that “India was able to repel a Chinese military incursion in contested border territory in the high Himalayas late last year due to unprecedented intelligence-sharing with the U.S. military, U.S. News has learned, an act that caught China’s People’s Liberation Army forces off-guard, enraged…

The CIA’s Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC) provides protection and new identities for individuals. The CIA works with other government agencies to create new identities by obtaining new Social Security numbers, creating new birth certificates, passports, and driver’s licenses. …

My life had never been perfect. In fact, there had been a lot wrong with it. The scars that marked my body were testament to that. And it wasn’t just the physical scars, but the emotional ones too. The category is spies, survival and action! (If you’ve watched the Tv…

Summary of the espionage-related news stories for the Week 11 (March 12–18) of 2023. — 1. United Kingdom: MI5: National Protective Security Authority Begins Work On March 13th the British MI5 issued this press release saying that “a new body has been created to help the UK combat national security threats. State-sponsored attempts at stealing sensitive research and information can undermine UK businesses and harm our country’s competitiveness on the world stage. As part of…

World War II began for the United States with a catastrophic intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor. Two decades earlier, during the First World War, the US military had begun building capacity in signals and communications intelligence. But little was left in place by 1941. Yet, just four years later, tens…

Talos uncovers espionage campaigns targeting CIS countries, embassies and EU health care agency This new threat actor we are naming “YoroTrooper” has been targeting governments across Eastern Europe since at least June 2022, and Cisco Talos has found three different activity clusters with overlapping infrastructure that are all linked to the same threat actor. Cisco Talos does not have a full overview of…