A soldier stationed in Alaska was arrested Friday on suspicion of espionage, according to an Army official.
Spc. William Colton Millay, a 22-year-old military policeman from Owensboro, Ky., was taken into custody at 6:30 a.m. Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson by special agents from Army Counterintelligence and Army Criminal Investigation Command.
The FBI and Army Counterintelligence are continuing to investigate Millay, assigned to the rear detachment of the 164th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Engineer Brigade. The unit, known as the Arctic Enforcers, deployed to Afghanistan in the spring without Millay.
Millay is in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections, where he is listed as a federal inmate at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
A U.S. Army Alaska spokesman said he could not elaborate on whether Millay has been charged, what charges he would face or whether he faces charges outside of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
“Today’s arrest was the result of the close working relationship between the FBI and its military partners in Alaska,” Mary Frances Rook, special agent in charge of the FBI in Alaska, said Friday. “Through this ongoing partnership, we are better able to protect our nation.”
The arrest comes as the military continues to reap fallout from the WikiLeaks case, in which former intelligence analyst Pvt. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the anti-secrecy website.
Those documents included Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, confidential State Department cables, and a classified military video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
Manning was transferred in April to a confinement facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., amid claims Manning was mistreated in the brig at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va. — charges the government denies.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities have arrested two Russians suspected of espionage since the closing days of the Cold War, according to a report to be published in Der Spiegel news magazine on Monday.
Germany‘s Federal Prosecutor confirmed that two people suspected of espionage activities for a foreign country had been arrested on Tuesday in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Hesse by Germany’s elite GSG-9 special operations commando.
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US government officials and America’s European allies need to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a “pervasive” cyber-espionage campaign and cybercrime targeting American companies, US Republican Mike Rogers said yesterday.
And Rogers, chairman of the US House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also inisted “our allies in Europe and Asia have an obligation to confront Beijing.”
Espionage sponsored by the Chinese government has resulted in “brazen and wide-scale theft of intellectual property of foreign commercial competitors,” continued the Michigan Republican.
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Who’s reading your email, besides you? If you send it from work, it’s probably your boss or some rogue tech admin. If you send it from home, it may be your spouse, your kids, or your nosy neighbors. (I told you not to write your password on a Post-it note and leave your Wi-Fi router open.) From an Internet café? Probably some slacker with a goatee, unless you remembered to log out first and/or encrypt your connection.
And if you send or receive email from any of those places, your Uncle may also be reading it — you know, the guy with the top hat, the snowy beard, and the fondness for red-white-and-blue ensembles? Him.
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Plans by Federal Government to push a security related bill that would empower it to eavesdrop on telephone conversations of the general public is generating some controversy. SHUAIB SHUAIB examines the issues, citing related examples from India, Turkey and the USA to throw light on the pitfalls of the idea.
The Federal Government under the ruling People’s Democratic Party has been reported to be working on a bill that will give it powers to eavesdrop on telephone conversations of the general public all in the hope of curbing and detecting crime. As expected, the challenges of foiling terrorist attacks is the main motive for the upcoming bill; which could also come in handy in the array of arsenal available to any sitting government to keep tabs on the activities of opposition politicians, inquisitive journalists, intransigent lawmakers and even judges exhibiting too much independence.
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