Topic: SPY - on April 13, 2003 at 11:17:54 AM CEST
Revealed: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam
Top secret documents obtained by The Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders.
Moscow also provided Saddam with lists of assassins available for "hits" in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries. The two countries also signed agreements to share intelligence, help each other to "obtain" visas for agents to go to other countries and to exchange information on the activities of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'eda leader.
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Topic: SPY - on April 10, 2003 at 5:28:58 PM CEST
Chinese-American Double Agent Arrested in L.A.
A Chinese-American woman helping U.S. government agents as "an asset on China" allegedly stole classified documents from her FBI agent lover and then sent them to China, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Topic: SPY - on March 30, 2003 at 8:43:32 AM CEST
Russian, Iraqi Agents Reportedly Meeting
Russian intelligence agents are holding daily meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, and may be interested in gaining control of Iraqi secret service archives if Saddam Hussein's regime falls.
The newspaper said the archives could be highly valuable to Russia in three major areas: in protecting Russian interests that remain in a postwar Iraq; in determining to what extent the Saddam regime may have financed Russian political parties and movements; and in providing Russia access to intelligence that Iraqi agents conducted in other countries.
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Topic: SPY - on March 28, 2003 at 11:38:58 PM CET
Satellites launched into N. Korea spy orbit
Japan's space agency successfully launched two reconnaissance satellites Friday into a designated orbit, which will enable the government to monitor North Korea's military buildup, officials said. The launching of the two spacecraft -- the first reconnaissance satellites that the Japanese government has launched -- marks a departure from its principle of limiting the use of space for peaceful purposes.
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Topic: SPY - on March 28, 2003 at 10:49:37 AM CET
Japan schickt erste Spionagesatelliten ins All
Japan hat erstmals zwei Spionagesatelliten ins All geschossen. Sie sollen das nordkoreanische Raketenprogramm wetterunabhängig aus einer Höhe von 400 bis 600 Kilometer überwachen. Die beiden Satelliten wurden von einer japanischen H2-A-Trägerrakete vom Weltraumzentrum Tanegashima ins All befördert.
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Topic: SPY - on March 23, 2003 at 3:17:45 PM CET
Zoom in on satellite images from Baghdad
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Topic: SPY - on March 23, 2003 at 1:08:24 PM CET
Russia condemns 'US spy flights'
Russia has lodged a formal protest with the United States over the reported flights of US spy planes along Russia's southern borders.
Three flights of U2 strategic reconnaissance planes were said to have taken place along the border with Georgia over the past month.
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Topic: SPY - on March 21, 2003 at 7:50:02 PM CET
Czech Republic Publishes Ex-Agents List
75,000 people identified as agents of the former communist secret police, the STB.
The 5,700-page list was posted on the ministry's Internet page and Czechs can consult it at six offices, four of them in the capital, Prague.
Since 1997, Czech citizens have been allowed to see their own police files, but not files held on other people. A new law that was adopted by the parliament last year gave them access to all STB files and ordered the Interior Ministry to publish the names of everyone listed as an agent.
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Topic: SPY - on March 19, 2003 at 9:05:49 PM CET
Lauschangriff auf EU-Büros
Bei einem Lauschangriff auf den EU-Ministerrat in Brüssel haben Spione die Telefone der deutschen Delegation und anderer Mitgliedstaaten angezapft. Die Auftraggeber der Abhöraktion sind bisher nicht bekannt. "Wir haben keinerlei Beweis, dass es die Amerikaner waren, aber auch keinen dafür, dass sie es nicht waren", sagte der Chefsprecher der Ratsverwaltung, Dominique-Georges Marro.
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Topic: SPY - on March 19, 2003 at 3:18:50 PM CET
Phone bugs found in EU building
Telephone bugs have been found in offices used by French and German delegates at a building due to host a European Union leaders' summit, an EU spokesman has said.
The bugging system was found in the EU Council Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, and affected other countries' officials as well, Dominique-Georges Marro, head of the EU Council press service, told reporters on Wednesday.
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Topic: SPY - on March 19, 2003 at 10:47:29 AM CET
Topf Secret
Secrets and pies
So it was with some excitement that we took receipt of Topf Secret, the first cookbook produced by the Bundesnachrichendienstes (BND), the German federal secret service. This book is part of a delightfully barmy PR offensive by the BND to make itself more visible to the general public. "It gives people a chance to grasp what we do, and to reassure taxpayers that we exist for a reason," a spokesman says.
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Topic: - on January 23, 2003 at 1:25:33 PM CET
Spies to publish cookbook
German special agents have published a cookbook of secret recipes. Top Secret - Schnitzel for Spies, is a new book by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - the German equivalent of MI6. More than two-dozen exotic recipes are included in the book, gathered from German special agents stationed around the world.
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