FBI / Cyber & technology
OpenAI’s Hidden Microphone May Become an Espionage Case
The FBI is examining a possible economic-espionage charge against the former engineer accused of bugging an executive conference room, the Wall Street Journal reports.
SPY REGISTER / REPORTING & ANALYSIS
Saudi Arabia
Intelligence reporting from Saudi Arabia.
FBI / Spy games
OpenAI’s Spy Scandal Has a Face
An engineer accused of planting a recorder in OpenAI’s executive conference room was filmed looking behind the TV. Prosecutors identify him as Abdulrahman Alfozan, charged with intercepting communications.
Reported 19 Oct 2026 · 3 min readUnited States / Saudi Arabia / Spy life
Judge keeps former OpenAI engineer jailed over alleged Saudi flight risk
A federal judge denied home confinement for Abdulrahman Alfozan. Prosecutors allege he was days from leaving for Saudi Arabia; his lawyer says the family trip was planned for paternity leave.
Reported 19 Oct 2026 · 2 min readThe CIA could buy the guns. Pakistan controlled how fast they reached Afghanistan.
Declassified 1980 memoranda reveal the aircraft, intermediaries and bargaining behind an expanding covert arms pipeline.
History · 11 Jun 1980 · 2 min read