Espionage

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations.

Viktor Demchenko, a 71-year-old Ukrainian man, died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage, activists said Sunday.

A court in Beijing on Monday sentenced Australian writer Yang Hengjun to a “suspended death sentence” on espionage charges — effectively sentencing him to life in prison.

Qatari Ambassador to the U.S. Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani allegedly attempted to interfere in both American and European Union politics.

The world is approaching the conclusion of President Joe Biden’s third year in office in a state of elevated geopolitical chaos.

The Mossad said Sunday that Iran has escalated attempts to harm Israelis across the world since October 7, pointing to the arrest of two Iranians linked to a plot to commit a terror attack in Cyprus as evidence of the heightened threat.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged former diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha with multiple federal crimes on Monday after an FBI investigation found evidence that Rocha acted as an undercover spy for Cuba’s communist Castro regime for over 40 years.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday that Chinese government officials have been ordered not to use Apple iPhones and other foreign devices for work, potentially inflicting a major blow on sales of those devices in China, whose titanic government bureaucracy employs a sizable portion of the population.

Federal investigators believe spying networks are behind the 100-plus attempted entries by Chinese nationals into sensitive U.S. sites in recent years, a report Sunday set out.

Three Bulgarian citizens suspected of spying on behalf of the Russian Federation have been arrested in the UK.

China has successfully penetrated every sector of the UK economy, blinded by short-termism and outplayed by Beijing, a major report warns. 

A retired American intelligence official told the Miami Herald in a report published Wednesday that China has been conducting espionage activities in Cuba since at least 1992, taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union to forge a closer relationship with the fellow communist nation.

Australia’s Parliament prevents Russia building new embassy citing threats of espionage and political interference.

John Kirby railed against “shameful” leaks indicating that China is working on building, or may already have, a spy base in Cuba.

The Global Times, a Chinese government propaganda newspaper, dismissed a Wall Street Journal report accusing Beijing of setting up a “spy base” in Cuba as an attempt to sabotage a rumored visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China this month.

The communist governments of China and Cuba issued statements on Thursday and Friday denying a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, that the Castro regime had agreed to allow Beijing to install a secret “spy base” on the island.

Communist Cuba, long disregarded as a priority by leftist President Joe Biden, boasted of taking on a role as a “key partner” to Russia on Wednesday, shortly before a bombshell report claimed the island would soon host a Chinese “spy base.”

Xie Feng, recently appointed as China’s ambassador to the United States, wrote an open letter in English to Americans of Chinese descent on Tuesday, reminding his “compatriots” that “blood is thicker than water,” so they should help their Communist “motherland” prevail over the country where they are citizens.

Alexander Shiplyuk, director of the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM) in Siberia, was quietly arrested last August and held without charges ever since.

America may be littered with illegal Chinese police stations “yet to be discovered” after the first-ever shutdown of such an operation in New York last month, Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE), told Breitbart News.

The U.S. Department of (DoD) confirmed Monday it is following the path of a mystery high-altitude balloon crossing over American territory.

A report published on Monday claimed that New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared hobnobbing at a political event in a video alongside “Harry” Lu Jianwang, arrested last week on federal charges for allegedly running an illegal Chinese police station in New York City.

Congressmen Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Lance Gooden (R-TX) will introduce legislation on Tuesday tasking leftist President Joe Biden with shutting down the Chinese Consulate General and Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York, a move meant to counter transnational repression and espionage by Beijing.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who also served as Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service and Under Secretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury Department under

On Tuesday, CBS News Senior Transportation and National Correspondent Kris Van Cleave stated that the Chinese C919 airliner is an example of China using forced intellectual property transfer and espionage to develop a product that can be sold for cheaper

Russia announced on Wednesday that 31-year-old American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), was arrested in Ekaterinburg and charged with espionage.

The Pentagon on Wednesday released a close-up image taken by a U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon before the U.S. Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast.

Piece by piece the scattered elements of the downed Chinese spy balloon emerged from the ocean depths Tuesday, with U.S. Navy divers using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to hasten the job.

The Foreign Relations and Worship Ministry of Costa Rica revealed on Monday that the Chinese Communist Party had apologized to the country after a balloon had deviated into Costa Rican airspace, less than a week after the Pentagon shot down a similar invading vessel over the Atlantic Ocean.

A Biden administration official confirmed that the United States was unaware of the Chinese spy balloons that flew over the United States during the Trump administration until after he left office.

Former President Donald Trump warned on Friday that China has “many thousands of spies working in the United States” in various industries amid a revelation that a Chinese spy balloon is flying over the continental United States. 

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is proposing a foreign land purchase moratorium to protect U.S. food security and stabilize housing prices.

Brothers originally born in Iran have been convicted by a Swedish court for spying on the country and passing along information to Russia. 

Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York on Friday dropped their charges against Baimadajie Angwang, an NYPD officer and former U.S. Marine who was accused of reporting to Chinese officials on the activities of fellow ethnic Tibetans living in the United States.

Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage.

A Chinese geolocating tracking device was reportedly discovered in a British government car that would be used by high-level officials.