SPY REGISTER / THE ARCHIVE
Operations, double lives, stolen secrets and the people behind them.
Britain's domestic intelligence service says state threats now consume more resources than during the Cold War. Its annual assessment points to Russian proxy operations and more than 50 arrests linked to Iran-focused investigations, while Moscow and Tehran reject accusations of hostile activity.
The former BND chief denies wrongdoing as Germany investigates an alleged paid pipeline of classified documents.
The court-authorized action disabled Microscan and FishHub and seized seven domains; China rejected the hacking accusations as politically motivated.
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.
New national-security products face a 2027 cryptography deadline; incompatible equipment is supposed to be replaced by 2030.
Britain’s Security Service says CGTRI-backed projects strengthened Chinese intelligence work; Beijing rejects the allegation as fabricated.
The London force reviewed its use of the forensic tools as US prosecutors accused company leaders of concealing Russian control.
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.
An alarm, a consular official and a familiar guest: the emails show how comfortably official protection fitted into Epstein’s private world.
Blaise Metreweli’s first doctrine for MI6 pairs agent-running with technical fluency, a more operational posture and calculated risks below the threshold of war.
Israel’s intelligence unit gained the storage to keep intercepted calls on a vast scale. Microsoft’s partial cutoff exposed the commercial machinery behind the surveillance.
The 2025 recovery brought back the operative’s false papers, apartment keys and original death sentence.
A Chicago student’s people-search purchases led to an agent conviction, an Army false-statement finding and a presidential commutation.
Xu Yanjun’s aviation espionage case ended with a twenty-year sentence. A conditional commutation and prisoner swap changed what happened next.
Mossad’s pager operation turned a communications purchase into a mass attack. Hezbollah was still handing out devices hours before they exploded, Reuters reported.
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.
The agency’s own account describes Cold War reconnaissance birds fitted with tiny cameras. Being ordinary was their cover.
The electronic breakthrough at Bletchley Park outlived the war inside GCHQ—and remained hidden from the people writing computing history.
Senior Indian and Pakistani intelligence officers used a UAE backchannel in January 2021, Reuters reported. Weeks later the militaries restored a border truce; neither government acknowledged the spy meeting.
Jonathan Pollard’s airport reception supplied the public ending to an espionage case whose intelligence damage remains partly classified.
A Swiss parliamentary investigation traced intelligence knowledge to 1993 and political leaders’ notification to late 2019.
A Singaporean agent used job advertisements and paid reports to cultivate sources, then faced prison and security detention.
Heinz Felfe’s exposure produced a second intelligence struggle over memoirs, reputations and the public record.
Gonen Segev had sat in Israel’s cabinet. Years later, Shin Bet said he was introducing Iranian handlers to Israelis as ordinary businessmen. He admitted espionage and received an 11-year sentence.
