#spyring

[andya-j]

🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🕵️ #Fact #WWII #Spy #SpyRing #Japan #Japanese #Mexico (at Bexhill, East Sussex) https://www.instagram.com/p/CALsiNmhEkv/?igshid=kmrsfh9fzni9

[andrewdonkin]

Two and a half hours family entertainment brought to you direct from 1978. #spyring #waddingtons (at MI5)

[igorgouzenko-blog]

Picture #5: This is a picture of the front page of The Globe and Mail in February 1946, when the world is finally told about Gouzenko’s defection and the fact that a spy ring has been operating in Canada for the past couple of years. The fact that this was made into a headline shows how big of a news story it truly was, and how the information that Gouzenko shared terrorized and changed the opinion of many Canadians. Although the Soviet Union attempted to mask its deceitfulness through manipulating false news, after Igor Gouzenko defected them, Canadians finally realized how cruel the Soviet Union truly was. 

[igorgouzenko-blog]

Picture #2: The Soviet Union symbol overshadowing an outline of the map of Canada represents what exactly had been going on while Igor Gouzenko was a KGB spy disguised as a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy. The Soviet Union had been collected vital Canadian intelligence by stationing a ring of spies in Canada, which Igor Gouzenko was not in favour of after he realized how much the Canadian government was helping the Soviets. The information that Gouzenko knew about the spy-ring hung around his head like a noose, until Igor Gouzenko broke under the pressure and decided to defect.

[rtamerica-blog]

FBI admits to using surveillance planes above Baltimore protests

The FBI has admitted it had carried out air surveillance of protests in Baltimore, using a secretive fleet of planes. Small aircraft activity in the skies over Baltimore first drew the attention of social media users, who then tracked the planes online.

"During the recent unrest, the FBI provided aircraft to the Baltimore Police Department for the purpose of providing aerial imagery of possible criminal activity. The aircraft were specifically used to assist in providing high-altitude observation of potential criminal activity to enable rapid response by police officers on the ground," FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson said in a statement.

[lettersfromtaiwan]

Taiwan's NSB & military as watertight as the Titanic

Two more Taiwanese officials indicted for spying

by J. Michael Cole 寇謐將

An ex-NSB officer and a former psychological warfare specialist were caught trying to pass sensitive information to Chinese intelligence Revelations of recruitment of Taiwanese by Chinese intelligence seem to have settled into a comfortable frequency, with arrests or indictments being made on an almost monthly basis now. A little more than a month after an Air Force captain was caught passing on classified information about Taiwan’s air defense systems to China via his uncle — a businessman in China — two former intelligence officers were charged on Monday and indicted today on charges of collecting sensitive information for China. According to the indictment, Tsai Kuo-bin (蔡國賓), 65, a former captain at the National Security Bureau (NSB), had spied for China for several years, and visited China on a number of occasions between 2007 and 2010. He is suspected of trying to acquire, and to have delivered, information on Taiwanese intelligence and Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) personnel, domestic politics, cross-strait relations, and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). China is said to have paid Tsai a total sum of NT$620,000 (US$20,000) for his efforts. 

According to the charges, Tsai was recruited by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Fujian Province. At the time of his retirement in 1994, Tsai was head of a unit at the NSB gathering cultural and educational intelligence on China. Prosecutors said Tsai also recruited the 63-year-old Wang Wei-ya (王維亞), a former officer at the Ministry of National Defense’s General Political Warfare Department, and asked him to acquire a book — 情報生涯30年 — containing classified information about 30 years of Taiwanese intelligence, which was banned before it could be published. Interestingly, after retiring from the military in 1994, Wang, by then a major, worked at the KMT Mainland Affairs Department, where he focused on psychological warfare and intelligence-gathering until 2006.

Tsai and Wang, who were arrested in September last year, face a maximum jail term of five years.

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Lft: Only five years? Not much of a deterrent against the lure of earning (US$20,000) ...

Also, the cases we get to hear about are only the tip of the iceberg.