News about an Iranian court sentencing an alleged American spy to death is now hitting the mainstream media like a storm. However, the blog IntelNews.org covered the story weeks ago, when writer Joseph Fitsanakis reported on the release of the video tape by the Iranians of Amir Mirzaei Hekmati admitting that he was a CIA [...]

“Chinese human-intelligence operations primarily rely on collecting a small amount of information from a large number of people”, said Peter Grier, “Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage”. Although China has been suspected as having a long history of espionage in the U.S. in order to gain knowledge and insight about military and industrial [...]

John Downey and Richard Fecteau were young and eager U.S. intelligence neophytes shot down over Communist China in the fall of 1952. As CIA paramilitary operatives, Downey, 22 and Fecteau, 25 were assigned to help halt the spread of communism during the Korean War by training anti-communist Chinese guerillas. But things went horribly awry when [...]

Much confusion, ambiguity and speculation is circulating the Internet about a mysterious spy plane that is allegedly now in the clutches of Iranian officials. On December 8, 2011, Iranian state-run TV revealed images of what appears to be a RQ-170 Sentinel drone, nicknamed the “Beast of Kandahar”. The photo released by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, [...]

The severity and the extent of the CIA’s involvement with Nazi war criminals has remained undisclosed for years, with the U.S. Department of Justice stifling masses of pages and documents of a frank and open history of how the U.S. government collaborated and even protected Nazis. In 2005, the National Security Archive finally posted formerly [...]

According to a new report on Iran’s nuclear weapons program released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran is secretly working to obtain a new nuclear weapon. The IAEA is an autonomous international organization with the aim to “promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes.” (1) [...]

During World War II, the United States Army’s Signals Intelligence Section (SIS) and the Communication Special Unit of the United States Navy cooperated together on a code breaking project known as “MAGIC”. The project from a crypto-analysis stand point was successful. However, the project appeared to fail miserably when the Japanese bombed the naval base [...]

In 1997, the IC community held the first “National Colloquium on International Systems Security Education (NCISSE). In 1998, the National Security Agency established a program to identify Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence – colleges and universities capable of educating students in computer security and other IC skills. Since then, other IC agencies established similar [...]

At a roundtable conference at The Royal Society in London on May 11th, 2011, Dr. Christopher Green of the Wayne State University School of Medicine delivered a talk titled, “Neuroscience Applications: Militaries, Intelligence and Law Enforcement”. As part of the talk, Dr. Green outlined a number of ways in which “advanced bioscience” is being looked [...]

On October 31st, the FBI released a collection of documents related to the investigation surrounding the Russian spy ring that the Agency busted in 2010. The documents add further weight to the idea that Anna Chapman was nothing more than a low-level amateur hoping to make it into the “big-leagues” as a real Russian spy. [...]