The wife of Frode Berg, Anita, has launched an appeal for his release. As regular readers of Spying Today will know, Frode Berg was a Norwegian pensioner who was caught by the FSB trying to contact agents in Russian on behalf of the Norwegian military intelligence service. In April, he …
One of the themes of Spying Today has been to highlight the increasing use of civilians for routine intelligence duties. It is difficult to move intelligence officers around the world in these security conscious times so more “civilian agents” are required. They are quick to recruit and can be dispensed …
Doan Thi Huong, the last of two suspects still detained in the case of the murder of Kim Jong-nam has been released by Malaysian authorities. She is believed to have accepted a lesser charge of “causing injury” enabling her to be freed at this early date. She is now expected …
We first reported the case of Frode Berg just a few weeks ago (see: http://spyingtoday.com/2019/03/28/frode-berg/). Berg has admitted that he acted as a courier for the Norwegian intelligence services, but claims that he was an innocent dupe. Today (17 April) his trial concluded and he was sentenced to fourteen years …
On 11 March we reported that Siti Aisyah, one of the two suspects arrested following the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, had been dramatically released on the opening day of her murder trial (http://spyingtoday.com/2019/03/11/north-korean-assassination/). However her co-accused, Doan Thi Huong, was not released and was due to stand trial for the …