The espionage charges brought recently against three photographers in Georgia are stirring a debate in Tbilisi: how spooky is the Russian bogeyman?
Some observers believe Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration is suffering from a severe case of spy mania. Others, however, maintain the cases are all too real.
By on 21/07/2011
A doctoral student who was detained when he tried to leave his native Iran earlier this year will go on trial tomorrow for charges related to espionage, according to sources close to him.
Kokabee, detained for five months
Omid Kokabee has been detained since late January or February this year when he was attempting to fly from Tehran airport to return to his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Physics World understands that he is suspected of leaking Iranian scientific information and working with the CIA.
By on 19/07/2011
BALTIMORE (AP) — A former senior spy agency official who admitted giving inside information to the Baltimore Sun about a major government electronic espionage program was given a year’s probation and community service Friday, in a blow to the Obama Administration’s crackdown on leaks to the media.
By on 19/07/2011
Fired up … Maroons coach Mal Meninga. Photo: Getty Images
THE revelations of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper resurrected memories for a couple of executives of the media magnate’s Super League.
When officials of the News Ltd-funded rugby league organisation reported for work one Monday morning in 1995 at their headquarters in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, they found a small group of technicians busy near their desks.
Told they were ”sweepers”, the league men surveyed the offices, considered them neat and tidy and wondered why they needed vacuuming.
But there wasn’t a Hoover in sight, although J. Edgar Hoover, the old FBI chief, would have felt comfortable in the environment.
By on 18/07/2011
SEOUL – Allegations of bugging involving the state-run broadcaster KBS have sparked criticism over “unethical journalism,” with others denouncing the ongoing investigation into the claims as an infringement on press freedom.
The suspicion is that on June 23, a 33-year-old KBS reporter, surnamed Jang, bugged a closed-door meeting of the main opposition Democratic Party in which its key members discussed strategies against the move to raise the broadcaster’s viewing fees.
By on 15/07/2011