By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Over the past several months we have written quite a bit about the Russian resurgence. This discussion predates Russia’s military action in Georgia. Indeed, we have discussed the revival of Russian power since at least 2005, the implications of the FSB’s return since April and the potential return of the [...]

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China obtained by espionage classified US nuclear weapons information that probably accelerated its program to develop future nuclear weapons. This collection program allowed China to focus successfully on critical paths and avoid less promising approaches to nuclear weapon designs.
China obtained at least basic design information on several modern US nuclear re-entry vehicles, including the Trident [...]

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Is it really that hard to figure out? China is boosting it high tech weapons arsenal in order to take on America. China understands that at some point there will be confrontation between the countries. Most likely it will be over Taiwan. China is positioning itself to defeat America or at least prevent America for [...]

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Woman Accused in China Arms Export Case
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Chinese woman living in Connecticut sought to buy military equipment commonly used to gauge the power of nuclear explosions and export it …
US investigators say woman tried to buy military sensors San Jose Mercury News
Agents: Woman Tried To Smuggle [...]

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MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (UPI) — Russia’s domestic intelligence service FSB claims it has uncovered more than 300 foreign spies over the past four years.
“More than 270 actively operating agents and 70 foreign intelligence recruits, including 35 Russians, have been exposed since 2003,” FSB Head Nikolai Patrushev told Russian popular weekly Argumenty i Fakty.
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And you thought the East Germans spied a lot. A new study shows that the West Germans had fully 10,000 agents snooping on their Communist neighbors. And they knew about the Berlin Wall before it went up. By Siobhán Dowling more…

The Occupation and its Offspring: Lost Red Army Children Search for Fathers
Letter From Berlin: New [...]

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Spies ’stole secrets’ to arm Chinese military
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago
… from China’s General Armaments Department and a Chinese government programme created to develop communications and laser technologies for the military, …
2 Silicon Valley engineers charged with economic espionage over … The Canadian Press
Spy charges for US computer duo BBC News
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Chinese, US citizens charged with espionage in San Francisco
AFP - 45 minutes ago
Earlier this month, the Financial Times reported that China’s military had hacked into the Pentagon’s military computer network — though the Chinese …
Economic espionage alleged in chip theft BusinessWeek
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WASHINGTON - China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official.
Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing that a law passed last month expanding the U.S. government’s eavesdropping [...]

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Russia’s espionage operation in Britain is operating at the level of the Cold war and involves about half of the staff accredited to its diplomatic missions in London, it has been claimed.
Their tasks range from seeking military and commercial secrets to monitoring Russian dissidents based in London, most notably Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire and outspoken [...]

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The so-called “Trojan” espionage programs were concealed in Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint files which infected IT installations when opened, SPIEGEL reported. Information was taken from German computers in this way on a daily basis by hackers based in the north-western province of Lanzhou, Canton province and Beijing. German officials believe the hackers were being [...]

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“The Chinese nationals were detained while photographing and recording video of a military complex in Arak city,” said the spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, according to the news agency ISNA. Mr. Jamshidi said the two had entered the country at Kish Island, a resort island in southern Iran on the Persian Gulf.
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Iran Arrests 2 Chinese on [...]

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Thousands of Chinese citizens, and Chinese-Americans caught up in what the Chinese call the “thousand grains of sand” espionage system. Basically, China tries to get all Chinese going overseas, and those of Chinsese ancestry living outside the motherland, to spy for China, if only a tiny bit. This approach to espionage is nothing new. Other [...]

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Chinese military intelligence collectors scored a recent coup in stealing valuable U.S. simulation technology that will boost Beijing’s combat training.
Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 42, a former Beijing resident, pleaded guilty Aug. 1 in California to illegally providing China’s military with embargoed software used in air force and navy training.
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Trident may be the only U.S. corporate-intelligence firm staffed by ex-KGB agents
In late May, a Russian agent slipped unnoticed into a Moscow movie theater showing Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. He donned night-vision goggles, scanned the theater, and spotted his target. But this was no Cold war spy scenario: The agent was [...]

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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday that Chinese intelligence operations against the United States are a major problem and that the FBI is stepping up counterespionage efforts against them.
Mr. Mueller was asked during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about growing Chinese espionage activities.
“There is substantial concern,” Mr. Mueller said. “China is stealing our [...]

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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin vowed Wednesday to strengthen Russia’s military capability and step-up spying abroad in response to U.S. plans to build missile defense sites and deploy troops in Eastern Europe.
“The situation in the world and internal political interests require the Foreign Intelligence Service to permanently increase its capabilities, primarily in the field of information [...]

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“The Chinese are putting on a full-court press in this area. … They are trying to flatten out the world as fast as possible,” says Joel Brenner, national counterintelligence executive. “One of the ways they accelerate that process is economic espionage. If you can steal something rather than figure it out yourself, you save years. [...]

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The number of Russian spies in Australia has risen to near-Cold war levels, forcing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to train a new generation of counter-espionage officers.
The threat from Russian intelligence experts comes alongside a huge jump in the numbers of Chinese agents believed to be operating in Australia.
The Australian newspaper reports [...]

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Russian intelligence agents have recently been trying to steal German military technology with an intensity unknown since the end of the Cold War. But the spies who have been arrested so far have got off scot-free — thanks to their diplomatic immunity.
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SHE GOES WEST, HE GOES RIGHT
A new study has found that many more women are leaving economically moribund Eastern Germany. The result is a new, frustrated and largely male underclass. And many of them find succor in the neo-Nazi scene.
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