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Russian intelligence operatives using energy weapons may have been behind Havana Syndrome, according to a new investigation into the mysterious and debilitating condition that struck U.S. personnel in Cuba. “Unexplained anomalous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons” used by Russia’s foreign military intelligence […]
Listen to this article here In a bizarre moment at a campaign rally in Iowa, Senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott baselessly pushed a xenophobic conspiracy that Chinese college students may be spies. “We have 300,000 Chinese students on college campuses across this country,” Scott (R-S.C.) said, seemingly unprompted. “I am concerned that we are […]
In a theater at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan one recent afternoon, a rehearsal for the coming opera “Intelligence,” about Civil War-era spies, was about to begin. But as the stage lights came on and the music blared, there were no singers in sight. Instead, six dancers from Urban Bush Women, a dance troupe in […]
Matthew Sparkes reports via NewScientist: A prominent cryptography expert has told New Scientist that a US spy agency could be weakening a new generation of algorithms designed to protect against hackers equipped with quantum computers. Daniel Bernstein at the University of Illinois Chicago says that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is […]
News By Ryan King Published Sep. 19, 2023, 6:49 p.m. ET At least three former intelligence officials who publicly, and falsely, tried to discredit . . .
Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, running for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, appears in an undated handout photo provided October 11, 2022. /U.S House of Representatives/Handout via REUTERS /File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
Yevgeny Prigozhin. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko US agencies had intelligence suggesting Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning action in Russia. There were enough signals to know “something was up,” a US official told The Washington Post. The Wagner boss stood down his troops after they began marching to Moscow in an apparent rebellion. US spy agencies had intelligence earlier […]
With Washington and Beijing locked in a tense superpower rivalry, the United States faces a daunting task in discerning the intentions of leaders in a country where power is increasingly concentrated and surveillance widespread, former American intelligence officials said. Reliable information about decision-making in China is in high demand in Washington amid fears Beijing could […]
STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities arrested two people on suspicion of espionage in a predawn operation Tuesday in the Stockholm area. The authorities gave few details about the case, but Swedish media cited witnesses who described elite police rappelling from two Black Hawk helicopters to arrest a couple that had allegedly spied for Russia. Sweden’s Prosecution […]
By Jonathan Stempel, Sarah N. Lynch and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters)—U.S. prosecutors charged two Chinese nationals with trying to obstruct the prosecution of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, as part of a broader crackdown on what they called efforts to exert unlawful influence in the United States. Chinese nationals Guochun He and […]