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 …
What is the greatest risk to life and limb if you are a US Secret Service agent charged with protecting the life of the US President? Drone strike? IED? Nope. According to statistics concerning incidents between Oct 2022 and January 2023, it is the President’s dog. President Biden once had …
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 …
Some years ago, the famous British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth admitted that he had worked for the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency for more than twenty years during the Cold War. He was first recruited during the Biafran War in Nigeria (1967-70) where he was working as a journalist for Reuters. …
Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5 (UK Security Service), has highlighted the fact that universities are prime targets for enemy intelligence services. He was giving a lecture at the University of Glasgow in June. The reason he chose Glasgow for the speech is because he studied mathematics there in his …