Stopping the Leaks
Attorney General John Ashcroft has declared that we don't need any new statutes to make unauthorized disclosure of classified information a crime. In an October 22 report to Congress, Ashcroft opined that he has sufficient ammunition in his arsenal to go after government leakers without having to bother with fresh legislation.....( American Journalism Review, 3 Dec 02)
Why 'spy' gave prostitute top secret papers
FORMER intelligence analyst Simon Lappas was no James Bond-style spy but a man in turmoil when he handed a top secret document to a prostitute to sell.....( Daily Telegraph, 3 Dec 02)
IRA 'spy case' adjourned
A fresh bail application by Sinn Fein's head of administration, alleged to be part of an IRA spy ring at Stormont, has been adjourned at the High Court in Belfast. Denis Donaldson was arrested in October along with three others and charged with possessing documents useful to terrorists.....( BBC, 3 Dec 02)
Woman accused of aiding spy chief to be extradited
A woman accused of helping former Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos flee their homeland has decided to stop fighting extradition.....( AP, 3 Dec 02)
Crean wants a national super spy
A National Security Adviser would be appointed as a new "super spy" to head all the country's disparate intelligence agencies, under a new national security policy adopted by the Federal Opposition's shadow cabinet last night.....( Sydney Morning Herald, 3 Dec 02)
Background / Mossad to focus on `global jihad'
Last Friday night, some 15 hours after flying in to Mombasa, Kenya, on Israel Air Force planes, the team of Israeli investigators - comprising Mossad and Shin Bet security service officials, along with members of the Israel Police Criminal Identification Unit - went out to dinner with their American counterparts...( Ha'aretz Daily, 3 Dec 02)
Cops swoop down on Bangledeshi 'spy' in Lucknow
A team of the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police today arrested a Bangladeshi Mamunurrashid and his Indian accomplice, Zafar Naem in a pre-dawn operation from Lucknow rail station on charges of spying for the ISI.....( Indian Express, 3 Dec 02)
OSS agent remembered for bravery
...It is November 1944. A blizzard is raging on the freezing slopes of Mount Dumbier in Slovakia. The speaker is Maria Gulovich Liu, of Oxnard, who is recalling an unforgettable World War II experience. She was running for her life with American and British intelligence agents, Allied airmen, Czech soldiers, French and Slovak partisans and others. .....( Ventura County Star, 2 Dec 02)
FBI 'spied on Graham Greene'
Author Graham Greene's political activities and outspoken criticism of the United States led the FBI to compile reports on him for more than 40 years.....( BBC, 2 Dec 02)
Supreme Court Won't Stop Suit Vs. Freeh
The Supreme Court refused Monday to stop a lawsuit that accused FBI officials of punishing an investigator in another agency for criticizing the Clinton administration's national security.....( AP, 2 Dec 02)
Mossad's escapades legendary
But Israeli secret service has had some failures in recent years
Few intelligence organizations have the mythic stature of Israel's Mossad secret service and its vaunted Special Operations unit.....( San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec 02)
U.S., UK Give Intelligence to UN Arms Monitors, ElBaradei Says
The U.S. and Britain are providing intelligence to United Nations inspectors about possible locations of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.....(Bloomberg, 1 Dec 02)
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