On 24 February 2006, UK legal history was made. On that day, MI6 (UK Foreign Intelligence Service) agreed to pay three ex-servicemen £10,000 each in an out of court settlement having been accused of assaulting them. A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said: “The settlement offers were …
In the wake of the (barely believable) news that thousands of classified emails from the Pentagon have mistakenly been sent to Russian ally Mali (see below – https://spyingtoday.com/2023/07/22/how-to-succeed-in-espionage-without-really-trying/) the UK’s Ministry of Defence has admitted that it has committed the same error. The problem is caused by typing .ML (Mali) …
This is not just an entry for most capitalised headline of 2023. On 26 July, the US House of Representatives (the security sub-committee of the House Oversight Committee which has support from both Republicans and Democrats) opened a one day, two hour hearing into the Unexplained Aerial Phenomena issue (UAP). …
Sometimes you don’t have to mount a sophisticated operation, the intelligence just drops into your lap. Millions of emails sent by the US military have ended up in Mali because some American soldiers can’t tell the difference between .MIL and .ML – which is Mali’s domain name. Unfortunately Mali also …
On 11 July, the FBI held a press conference to reveal the contents of an indictment which had been sealed up until that time on the grounds of secrecy. US prosecutors claim that Gal Luft, a dual citizen of the US and Israel, is an unregistered agent of the Chinese …