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. …
Preident Macron of France criticised his intelligence services for not warning his government of the coup in Niger that overthrew a pro-French government last week. France has been forced to evacuate hundreds of its citizens as a pro-Russian Niger military force took over. He said they did not see “anything …
On 8 August there was a massive accidental leak of the names and units of all 9,276 serving PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) officers. Their details were on a spreadsheet which was disseminated by mistake. In the chaos followed, it was then revealed that there had already been an …
Vladimir Sergienko, 52, has been accused of plotting with Moscow to delay the arrival of German tanks in Ukraine. He is a parliamentary aide for the far-Right AfD (Althernative for Germany) party for whom he works as a translator. He is a naturalised German citizen born in Ukraine. He has …
August Hanning and Gerhard Schindler, two former chiefs of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, have publicly criticised their former organisation by claiming that it needs to make considerable improvements if it is to “look Western allied services in the eye again.” They were wrting in Germany’s Bild newspaper. …