Espionage

Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.

A federal court in New York convicted naturalized U.S. citizen Wang Shujun of working as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security.

A Russian court on Friday sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a high-security penal colony.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed American media for the delay in negotiations to swap captive American journalist Evan Gershkovich.

A report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Monday indicated that, based on satellite imagery obtained by the organization, Cuba has significantly expanded some of its electronic eavesdropping stations with suspected ties to China.

The Chinese Communist regime in Beijing announced new regulations on Monday that will empower its officials to inspect smartphones and other personal electronics at will, including those belonging to foreign visitors.

The Wall Street Journal denounced Russia’s secret espionage trial of its reporter Evan Gershkovich as a “travesty of justice.”

China revealed the discovery of piles of confidential military documents for sale as scrap at a recycling facility for less than three dollars.

China on Monday accused Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service of recruiting a couple who worked for the central government to spy for the UK.

Former President Donald Trump told podcaster Tim Pool that he is giving “very serious consideration” to pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if elected president in November.

A German court convicted a military officer of espionage Monday for passing internal documents to Russia and offering more.

A Hong Kong-born former U.S. CIA agent has pleaded guilty to spying on behalf of China, the Department of Justice announced Friday. 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted the right to appeal his extradition to the United States by London’s High Court on Monday

Three people suspected of spying for China and arranging to transfer information on technology with potential military uses were arrested.

Nicaragua authorized the establishment of a Russian-built and operated “Instruction Center” for the “reengineering” of the Nicaraguan police.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations.

The government of self-proclaimed conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced on Thursday that it had established diplomatic ties with the Communist Party of Cuba, disregarding Cuba’s close ties to North Korea, its long history of espionage, its status as a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism, and its deplorable human rights record.

Viktor Demchenko, a 71-year-old Ukrainian man, died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage, activists said Sunday.

A court in Beijing on Monday sentenced Australian writer Yang Hengjun to a “suspended death sentence” on espionage charges — effectively sentencing him to life in prison.

Qatari Ambassador to the U.S. Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani allegedly attempted to interfere in both American and European Union politics.

Russia’s domestic security agency has arrested a Russian citizen for allegedly providing information to Poland about defense production.

The world is approaching the conclusion of President Joe Biden’s third year in office in a state of elevated geopolitical chaos.

The Mossad said Sunday that Iran has escalated attempts to harm Israelis across the world since October 7, pointing to the arrest of two Iranians linked to a plot to commit a terror attack in Cyprus as evidence of the heightened threat.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged former diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha with multiple federal crimes on Monday after an FBI investigation found evidence that Rocha acted as an undercover spy for Cuba’s communist Castro regime for over 40 years.

A researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for the Chinese Communist Party, the Sunday Times reported.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday that Chinese government officials have been ordered not to use Apple iPhones and other foreign devices for work, potentially inflicting a major blow on sales of those devices in China, whose titanic government bureaucracy employs a sizable portion of the population.

Federal investigators believe spying networks are behind the 100-plus attempted entries by Chinese nationals into sensitive U.S. sites in recent years, a report Sunday set out.

Three Bulgarian citizens suspected of spying on behalf of the Russian Federation have been arrested in the UK.

China has successfully penetrated every sector of the UK economy, blinded by short-termism and outplayed by Beijing, a major report warns. 

A retired American intelligence official told the Miami Herald in a report published Wednesday that China has been conducting espionage activities in Cuba since at least 1992, taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union to forge a closer relationship with the fellow communist nation.

Australia’s Parliament prevents Russia building new embassy citing threats of espionage and political interference.

John Kirby railed against “shameful” leaks indicating that China is working on building, or may already have, a spy base in Cuba.

The Global Times, a Chinese government propaganda newspaper, dismissed a Wall Street Journal report accusing Beijing of setting up a “spy base” in Cuba as an attempt to sabotage a rumored visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China this month.

The communist governments of China and Cuba issued statements on Thursday and Friday denying a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, that the Castro regime had agreed to allow Beijing to install a secret “spy base” on the island.

Communist Cuba, long disregarded as a priority by leftist President Joe Biden, boasted of taking on a role as a “key partner” to Russia on Wednesday, shortly before a bombshell report claimed the island would soon host a Chinese “spy base.”

Xie Feng, recently appointed as China’s ambassador to the United States, wrote an open letter in English to Americans of Chinese descent on Tuesday, reminding his “compatriots” that “blood is thicker than water,” so they should help their Communist “motherland” prevail over the country where they are citizens.