Following the arrest of two US Navy sailors on charges of spying for China, they have now appeared in court. One of them Patrick Wei, whose original name before naturalisation was Jinchao Wei, has told the court that his mother, who lives in Wisconsin, encouraged him to spy for China. …
Many Western agencies have created a presence on social media in recent years. Now, China’s state security agency (CSS) has issued its first ever social media post. However, where Western agencies try and portray themselves in a very PR friendly way, the Chinese approach is far more sombre and threatening: …
Western intelligence agencies rarely use blackmail as a way of forcing people to become intelligence sources (agents). This is not because they are more moral than other services but because blackmail tends to produce agents who are reluctant, work poorly and who can be easily turned by the enemy if …
The French intelligence service has moved against a Russian operation aimed at stealing Western technology. They had been watching a company named Ommic and this week arrested executives of the company together with the businessman who had majority control of the shares. Interstingly, that businessman was not Russian as you …
In two separate cases that resulted in arrests on the same day, two US Navy sailors have been accused of spying for China. There is no suggestion that they are linked even though both were arrested at the same time. However, the fact that the FBI stressed this aspect raises …