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.
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Opinion · The Editorial
CIA / Spy games
The CIA’s Best Bet in Cuba Is a Deal With the Regime
Ratcliffe has already gone to Havana. The strongest reading of Washington’s pressure campaign points toward bargaining with the men who can deliver change from within.
Ukraine / United States / Spy games
Zelenskyy says missile warnings are working again after intelligence row
Zelenskyy thanks US officials after Oslo talks, while Rubio disputes a policy change and cites an earlier software problem.
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.
United 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.
United States / China / Power & scandal
U.S. sanctions five Chinese entities over stolen Google AI secrets
Beijing rejects the measures linked to former Google engineer Linwei Ding. His theft convictions remain, while a judge dismissed the separate economic-espionage counts.
CIA / Power & scandal
Deal bars ex-CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry from South Korean spy-service contacts
The foreign-agent prosecution could end after a year. The agreement records gifts and meetings without an admission of wrongdoing.
Opinion · The Editorial
The CIA’s $194 Million Con Man
David Rush pleaded guilty after inventing government authorities to acquire gold, Florida property and luxury goods. The agency has a much bigger problem than an embarrassing photograph.
NSA / Cyber & technology
NSA starts the clock on a quantum-resistant rebuild of national-security systems
New national-security products face a 2027 cryptography deadline; incompatible equipment is supposed to be replaced by 2030.
United Kingdom / United States / Russia / Cyber & technology
Met suspended Oxygen Forensics software after US Russian-ownership charges
The London force reviewed its use of the forensic tools as US prosecutors accused company leaders of concealing Russian control.
Opinion · The Editorial
Israel / United States / Power & scandal
Epstein Had a Piece of the 911 Business
A convicted sex offender put $1 million into an Israeli emergency-response startup through Barak’s holding company. The money was welcome; the name stayed out of the term sheets.
Opinion · The Editorial
Israel / United States / Power & scandal
Israel’s Security Men Had the Keys to Epstein’s Apartment
An alarm, a consular official and a familiar guest: the emails show how comfortably official protection fitted into Epstein’s private world.
Member article
A Chicago student bought dossiers for China’s spies. Then he joined the Army.
A Chicago student’s people-search purchases led to an agent conviction, an Army false-statement finding and a presidential commutation.
The FBI Hired China’s Spy to Keep Him Under Watch
Alexander Ma’s case ran from a $50,000 meeting in Hong Kong to an FBI payroll, a fake Chinese handler and a lifetime obligation to talk.
CIA / Spy life · History
The CIA Really Did Put Cameras on Pigeons
The agency’s own account describes Cold War reconnaissance birds fitted with tiny cameras. Being ordinary was their cover.
CIA / Power & scandal · History
Israel’s American Spy Came Home to a Prime Minister’s Welcome
Jonathan Pollard’s airport reception supplied the public ending to an espionage case whose intelligence damage remains partly classified.
Member article
Crypto AG’s customers bought secrecy from a company owned by the CIA and BND
A Swiss parliamentary investigation traced intelligence knowledge to 1993 and political leaders’ notification to late 2019.
Member article
FBI / Spy life · History
Dickson Yeo’s fake consultancy attracted cleared Americans for Chinese intelligence recruitment
A Singaporean agent used job advertisements and paid reports to cultivate sources, then faced prison and security detention.
Epstein Offered a Future CIA Chief an Apartment
Texts to William Burns, favors involving an FSB Academy graduate and years of access to Ehud Barak trace Epstein’s reach into the intelligence establishment.
CIA / Cyber & technology · History
The CIA’s Oldest Secrets Included Aspirin and Water
A First World War ink formula stayed classified until 2011. It was among six documents the government finally opened after nearly a century.
The SVR built American lives for years. The FBI broke the sleeper ring in one day.
Operation Ghost Stories watched deep-cover agents marry, buy homes, raise children and cultivate future sources. Eleven days after ten arrests, guilty pleas became a spy swap.