🇪🇺 New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for #Russia
The Insider and Re:Baltica examined 19,000 of Ždanoka's emails, revealing her extensive correspondence with FSB agents and work for the Kremlin — while being an MEP.
🇵🇱 #Poland has arrested nine people in connection with acts of sabotage committed in the country on the orders of Russian services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late on Monday.
🇵🇱 Polish special services have found and dismantled bugging devices in a room where the council of ministers was due to meet on Tuesday, the special services coordinator's spokesman said.
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AfD politician’s aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China.
Investigators have accused Guo of spying in particular on Chinese opposition figures living in exile in Germany, having apparently posed as a dissident himself, and passing the information on to a liaison officer.
In January 2024 he passed on information about negotiations and decisions made in the European parliament, prosecutors said.
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Reading various news about russian secret operations in europe it's clear there is already a covert war going on, on par with the cold war of the 80s it seems, with GRU and FSB involved in all kind of operations. #russia#GRU#FSB#spying#disinformation#geopolitics@geopolitics
🇦🇹 Egisto Ott, a former Austrian intelligence officer who spied on investigative journalist Christo Grozev, has been arrested following the publication of a joint investigation by The Insider and Der Spiegel.
New Zealand’s international spy agency has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years without telling its minister, and without knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes overseas....
🇷🇺 🇩🇪 Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.
A former U.S. diplomat has agreed to plead guilty to charges related to spying on behalf of the Cuban government since the 1980s. Manuel Rocha, 73, admitted to being a foreign agent of Cuba in exchange for prosecutors dropping 13 other charges. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Read more from the AP.
This is the new operating environment for spies: a heady mix of rapid technological development, identity politics, plausible deniability, uncertainty and distrust of authority.
🇪🇦 🇷🇺 Moscow’s links with separatists in Catalonia are under scrutiny after it was reported that at least seven Russian spies have travelled to the Spanish region in recent years.
According to the reports, some of the agents from the Russian GRU military intelligence service travelled to Barcelona at key moments in Catalan separatists’ bid for independence.
🇷🇺 Moscow on Friday refused to say whether a convicted hitman who killed a former Chechen fighter in Berlin four years ago was a Russian agent, after Putin hinted he wanted him freed in a three-way prisoner exchange.
'Improper': NZ spy agency slammed for secretly hosting foreign spying (www.newstalkzb.co.nz)
New Zealand’s international spy agency has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years without telling its minister, and without knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes overseas....