Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according to a Pentagon report.
The report concluded that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS, is “one of the largest and most dynamic intelligence agencies in the Middle East.”
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Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy
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on October 13, 2012
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The Chinese are playing dirty in the international spy game, according to current and former intelligence officials at the highest levels of government.
“This is stealing American wealth. It’s stealing American jobs. It’s stealing American competitive advantage,” General Michael Hayden, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, said in an interview with NBC News.
Hayden’s comment was echoed by a House Intelligence Committee report released Monday warning that two Chinese telecommunications companies, Huawei and ZTE, could be funneling sensitive information back to Beijing, and cautioned American carriers to avoid doing business with them.
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Chinese suspected of spying on U.S. strategic missile base in Wyoming | Washington Free Beacon
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on September 10, 2012
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One security official said the suspicious incident on Sept. 3 appeared to be part of a Chinese intelligence collection operation or perhaps a training exercise for intelligence personnel. Another theory is that the group was part of the population of Asian guest workers residing in other parts of Wyoming or the west.
U.S. intelligence officials have said Chinese intelligence agencies conduct aggressive spying activities against U.S. military facilities and have been known to case the Pentagon’s strategic missile defense base at Fort Greeley, Alaska.
Chinese suspected of spying on U.S. strategic missile base in Wyoming | Washington Free Beacon
Viewed tactically this particular incident was not a threat just like the Chinese missile fired right off the coast of California wasn’t a threat. However, viewed from a strategic standpoint, China’s actions in aggregate constitute a threat. This incident should be viewed as a strategic threat.
How does one deal with these types of threats?
I would cancel the START II treaty immediately and get ready for nuclear war. After a couple of years of rebuilding our nuclear arsenal, I would put Russia and China on a quicker path to revolution:
- I would set trade tariffs such that trade between the US and China is balanced, or at least on the path to being a lot more balanced.
- I would start to subsidize energy independence for Europe, thereby pushing a knife into Russia.
- I would more aggressively launch cyber-attacks against Russia and China. Of course, I would deny it.
Either revolutions hit Russia and China quicker and the bigger problems get solved, or there will be nuclear war. But aren’t we already on the path to nuclear war? Aren’t Russia and China already on the path to revolution? It’s just a matter of what hits first.
Arrested spy compromised China’s U.S. espionage network: sources | Reuters
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on June 15, 2012
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A Chinese state-security official arrested this year on allegations of spying for Washington is suspected to have compromised some of China’s U.S. agents in a major setback that angered President Hu Jintao, sources said.
Hu personally intervened this year, ordering an investigation into the case after the Ministry of State Security arrested one of its own officials for passing information to the Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The official, an aide to a vice minister, was taken into custody sometime between January and March after the ministry became alarmed last year over repeated incidents of Chinese agents being compromised in the United States, they said.
Exclusive: Arrested spy compromised China’s U.S. espionage network: sources | Reuters
Military Secrets Leak From U.S. Universities – Businessweek
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on April 30, 2012
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For 15 days in late 2009, Internet users in 36 countries, including China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan, viewed sensitive information about U.S. weapons technology that was supposed to be for American eyes only.
The disclosure, which prompted a rebuke from a U.S. State Department official, came from a Georgia Institute of Technology course for federal employees and contractors on infrared technology used in weapons-aiming systems for aircraft, ships and tanks. Asked by instructor David Schmieder to copy the course onto a DVD, Georgia Tech’s media staff instead uploaded it to servers.
“I completely forgot the course’s access was restricted,” Media Quality Control Supervisor Edward Bailey told university investigators, according to documents obtained from Georgia Tech through a public-records request.
U.S. Colleges Infected by Foreign Spies: FBI – Businessweek
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on April 9, 2012
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Hearkening back to Cold War anxieties, growing signs of spying on U.S. universities are alarming national security officials. As schools become more global in their locations and student populations, their culture of openness and international collaboration makes them increasingly vulnerable to theft of research conducted for the government and industry.
“We have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence
services,” Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director for counterintelligence, said in a February interview in the bureau’s Washington headquarters.‘Academic Solicitation’
While overshadowed by espionage against corporations, efforts by foreign countries to penetrate universities have increased in the past five years, Figliuzzi said. The FBI and academia, which have often been at loggerheads, are working together to combat the threat, he said.
