Wei Speaks

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. …

French farce

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 …

BND in more trouble

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. …