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  • Espionage and Spying in Ancient Greece

    05/03/2025 11:46:03 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | May 3, 2025 | Alexander Gale
    For as long as there has been war, there has been a need to reveal what the enemy is planning. This was no less true in ancient Greece where generals and statesmen relied on espionage to reveal the intentions and capabilities of their adversaries. The philosopher Plato believed that the ancient Greek states were in a constant state of war, whether declared or undeclared. It was within this grey zone that the subtleties of espionage took place, a dimension of foreign affairs that remains true to this day. Like the practice of spying itself, the sources regarding espionage in ancient...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

    04/20/2025 2:29:00 PM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 04/14/2025 | Philip Lenczycki
    Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter...
  • ‘This Is A Disgrace’: Experts, GOP Reps Call On The Biden Admin To Shut Down A Secret Chinese Police Station In NYC

    11/05/2022 10:03:30 PM PDT · by george76 · 40 replies
    Daily Caller News ^ | November 05, 2022 | MICAELA BURROW AND PHILIP LENCZYCKI
    The U.S. government must launch a probe into the Chinese overseas law enforcement operation in New York City, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation, as other countries raise the alarm over reports of police stations on their soil. “How in God’s name could they openly have these communist police stations in our country?” Beau Dietl, retired NYPD detective, told the DCNF. “This shows the Chinese Communist Party is not afraid to exert its will outside of China, and we should do all that we can to counter this behavior,” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch of Idaho...
  • China opening Chinese Police Stations outside its territory (one in NYC, 3 in Canada)

    09/30/2022 3:55:59 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 36 replies
    Reportika ^ | September 27, 2022 | N/A
    The spread of Chinese overseas police service stations around the world raises concerns among human rights campaigners. The Chinese government is opening illegal police posts all over the world. China claims that these posts are capable of cracking down on global and multinational crimes. These checkpoints have been opened in many countries around the world including developed countries like Canada and Ireland. According to local media reports, Fuzhou has established informal police service stations affiliated with the Public Security Bureau (PSB) across Canada. At least three of these stations are located in the Greater Toronto Area only. Chinese Police Station...
  • Owner of NJ sushi joint convicted of spying for China and let back on the street nabbed by ICE

    04/12/2025 5:04:50 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/12/25 | Jack Richards
    An alleged sushi-slinging spy is in ICE custody. Ming Xi Zhang, known as “Sushi John,” the 61-year-old owner of Ya Ya Noodles in Montgomery Township, NJ, was arrested March 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark. Zhang was convicted in April 2024 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and sentenced to three years’ probation. In May 2021, he pleaded guilty to having served as an agent of China in 2016 without notifying the U.S. Attorney General. ICE says he legally entered the U.S. in 2000 but later “violated the terms of his lawful admission.”...
  • Intel CEO invested in hundreds of Chinese companies, some with military ties

    04/10/2025 7:10:20 PM PDT · by anthropocene_x · 58 replies
    Reuters ^ | April 10, 2025 | Eduardo Baptista, Stephen Nellis, Max A. Cherney
    Lip-Bu Tan, the man chosen to lead Intel, the U.S.'s largest chip maker, has invested in hundreds of Chinese tech firms, including at least eight with links to the People's Liberation Army, according to a Reuters review of Chinese and U.S. corporate filings. The appointment last month of Tan, one of Silicon Valley's longest-running investors in Chinese tech, as CEO of a company that manufactures cutting-edge chips for the U.S. Department of Defense raised questions among some investors Reuters' review found that Tan controls more than 40 Chinese companies and funds as well as minority stakes in over 600 via...
  • Chinese hackers spent up to 5 years in US networks: Cyber officials Chinese hackers aimed to "launch destructive cyber-attacks," officials said.

    04/09/2025 7:01:28 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 7 replies
    abcnews.go.com ^ | February 8, 2024 | Luke Barr
    "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assess that People's Republic of China (PRC) state sponsored cyber actors are seeking to preposition themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States," an alert released by the agencies earlier this week said... "CISA and its U.S. Government partners have confirmed that this group of PRC state-sponsored cyber actors has compromised entities across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in cyberspace, including communications, energy, transportation, and water...
  • Internet-connected cameras made in China may be used to spy on US infrastructure: DHS The cameras usually lack data encryption and communicate with the manufacturer.

    04/09/2025 6:53:34 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 9 replies
    abcnews.go.com ^ | February 6, 2025, | Josh Margolin, Aaron Katersky, and Meredith Deliso
    Internet-connected cameras made in China are giving the Chinese government the ability to "conduct espionage or disrupt US critical infrastructure," according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by ABC News. The cameras typically lack data encryption and security settings and, by default, communicate with their manufacturer. It's believed there are tens of thousands of Chinese-made cameras on the networks of critical U.S. infrastructure entities, including within the chemical and energy sectors, the bulletin said. Chinese cyber-operatives have previously exploited internet-connected cameras.. the DHS warns. "A cyber actor could leverage cameras placed on IT networks for initial access and...
  • NSA Warns 'Fast Flux' Threatens National Security

    04/04/2025 3:35:54 PM PDT · by Governor Dinwiddie · 17 replies
    Slashdot ^ | April 04, 2025 | BeauHD
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has warned. The technique is known as fast flux. It allows decentralized networks operated by threat actors to hide their infrastructure and survive takedown attempts that would otherwise succeed. Fast flux works by cycling through a range of IP addresses and domain names that these botnets use to connect to the Internet. In some cases, IPs and domain names change every day...
  • BREAKING NEWSTrump fires staff of 'idiot' adviser embroiled in Signal scandal after urging by controversial MAGA influencer

    04/03/2025 8:52:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 143 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 03, 2025 | NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM AT THE WHITE HOUSE
    President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team. DailyMail.com confirmed an Axios report released Thursday morning. The dismissals come after National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where top administration officials were discussing an attack on the Houthis in Yemen. Trump has publicly supported Waltz, a former Florida congressman, in the aftermath of Signalgate, despite some White House insiders labeling him a 'f***ing idiot.' However The New York Times reported Thursday morning that far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and pressed...
  • US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

    04/03/2025 8:24:36 AM PDT · by DFG · 50 replies
    AP via Yahoo ^ | 04/02/2025 | DAKE KANG, MATTHEW LEE and DIDI TANG
    The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned. Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into effect by departing U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns in January shortly before he left China. The people would speak only on condition of anonymity to discuss details of a confidential new directive. Though some U.S. agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it...
  • Blumenthal: Trump Administration Group Chat Potential Espionage Act Violation

    03/25/2025 6:59:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/25/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis between Trump administration officials might be a violation of the “Espionage Act as well as the Federal Records and Presidential Records Act.” Blumenthal said, “I’ve talked to some of the pilots who have undertaken these missions against the Houthis. They have very seriously threatening air defense systems that can shoot down our planes and the early warning that might have been given them about the targets, the human targets that were on the list, about the weather, about the...
  • Concerns about espionage rise as Donald Trump, Elon Musk fire federal workers

    03/25/2025 12:11:50 AM PDT · by Jyotishi · 49 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | Press Trust of India
    Washington -- As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they are forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job. For Russia, China and other adversaries, the upheaval in Washington as Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency guts government agencies presents an unprecedented opportunity to recruit informants, national security andintelligence experts say. Every former federal worker with knowledge of or access to sensitive information or systems could be a target. When thousands of them leave their jobs at the same time, that creates a lot of targets, as...
  • Lee Harvey Oswald, USMC activity 1957 - 1959 prior to defection (excerpts from Warren Commission report)

    03/23/2025 3:37:57 AM PDT · by linMcHlp · 9 replies
    National Archives - JFK Assassination Records - Appendix 13: Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald ^ | 1964 | President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
    The following is an excerpt from pp 682 - 690 of the: National Archives - JFK Assassination Records - Appendix 13: Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald Detailing Lee Harvey Oswald's U.S. Marine Corps activities for the period of 1957 - 1959, prior to his defection to the U.S.S.R.
  • About That French Scientist Who Was Denied Entry Into the US...

    03/22/2025 6:00:26 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/22/25 | Matt Vespa
    The liberal media is ready to pounce on anything to discredit the Trump administration’s goal of securing our border and enforcing our immigration laws. They are dying for bodies to pile up because they’re psychopaths. We already have Nelson Mandela 2.0 in Mahmoud Khalil, a supporter of Hamas. Badar Khan Suri was the next story, a Georgetown University scholar who faces deportation because of familial ties to Hamas—his father-in-law is a political adviser to the terror group. These things come in threes, so here’s the story of a French scientist who was denied entry after his phone had anti-Trump texts....
  • Swiss Think-Tank: US Intel Investigating Anthony Blinken For Potential Involvement in Romania’s Globalist Coup

    03/22/2025 11:27:23 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 16 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 3-22-25 | Robert Semonsen
    A Swiss think tank has reported that U.S. intelligence agencies, allegedly acting under the directives of the Trump administration, are investigating former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his assistant James O’Brien for purportedly pressuring Romanian authorities to annul the country’s presidential election results. According to the report, Blinken—an arch-neocon and influential figure in America’s globalist, interventionist foreign policy establishment—collaborated with former Romanian Foreign Minister Luminița Odobescu to pressure officials in Bucharest into annulling Călin Georgescu’s first-round presidential victory, thereby ensuring Romania remained aligned with pro-NATO and globalist interests. The Diplomatic Affairs, a Geneva-based think tank focused on assessing global...
  • Julian Assange Saga Ends; Guilty Plea Traded For Freedom

    06/24/2024 9:41:08 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/24/2024 | Margaret Clark
    Julian Assange's 14-year saga as a fugitive and prisoner may be coming to an end. The Wikileaks founder has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge with the U.S. Justice Department in exchange for no additional prison time. He has already served 5 years in a maximum security prison in England after spending 7 years hiding in an Ecuadorian Embassy. Assange would only agree to a hearing outside of U.S. soil. Last month he won his right to appeal an extradition order. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled for Assange after his lawyers argued that the...
  • IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence

    08/19/2017 8:02:32 PM PDT · by bitt · 100 replies
    New York Post ^ | august 19, 2017 | Paul Sperry
    Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI surveillance of the suspects.
  • New US Attorney for the District of Columbia Busts Unique Chinese Spying Operation

    02/04/2025 9:20:22 AM PST · by bitt · 32 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 2/4/2025 | john mills
    China’s spying campaign is pervasive and relentless. Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director, Christopher Wray said, ““The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage, and that its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic and break America’s will to resist.” Well said by former Director Wray, but if the FBI and Department of Justice had spent less time spying on Catholics, Pro-Lifers, and School Board attendees, maybe they would...
  • Students gearing up for round 2 of pro-Palestinian protests: ‘We’ve been working all this summer’

    08/05/2024 1:24:54 AM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    The Hill ^ | 8/04/24 | Lexi Lonas
    The pro-Palestinian activists who disrupted campuses across the nation are plotting their return for the new academic year. Demonstrators say all forms of protest are still on the table, despite the more than 2,000 arrests so far, as students try to figure out a new strategy to demand their schools divest from Israel, among other goals. “What we will see [is] the students will continue their activism, will continue doing what they’ve done in conventional and unconventional ways. So not only protests, not only encampments, kind of any — any available means necessary to push Columbia to divest from from...