Espionage

Who was the Cold War ‘umbrella assassin?’

Ever since Bulgarian journalist Hristo Hristov successfully sued for the release of the intelligence file on Francesco Gullino in 2007, the world has known that Gullino, an Italian-born Danish citizen, began working for the Bulgarian secret service in 1971.

To this day, Gullino is considered the main suspect in the so-called “umbrella assassination” case: the murder of the Bulgarian writer and dissident Georgi Markov in London in 1978.

Markov was poisoned, probably with ricin, after being injected with a poisoned pellet when stabbed in the leg with the tip of a specially adapted umbrella at a bus stop in London.

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American spy on secondment to GCHQ was stabbed by alleged terrorist just three miles from its Cheltenham headquarters

An American spy on secondment to GCHQ was stabbed by an alleged terrorist just three miles from its headquarters, it can now be revealed.

Police believe a woman working for US intelligence was targeted by a knifeman in an alleged terrorist attack outside a leisure centre in Cheltenham.

The victim is said to have been sitting in a car when the knifeman lashed out stabbing her in the leisure centre car park, before she managed to stagger out of the vehicle for help.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage, terrorism, UK, USA

Diane Francis: We’ve only scratched the surface of foreign interference and espionage

With the spotlight on China’s interference in Canadian elections, the case of Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP spy master who was charged in 2019 with violating the Security of Information Act, is still hidden in the shadows. He was released on bail in December and is set to be tried in October, but the details of the case, likely involving China, have been hidden from the public. They should be disclosed immediately.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage, RCMP

John Robson: CSIS Leak: What Will It Take for Trudeau to Start Expelling Chinese Diplomats?

Apparently the Canadian government is justified in taking drastic measures to combat threats to national security or someone’s “self-realization” from, say, a truck horn. But if a totalitarian tyranny attempts to fiddle our elections, well, all good clean fun.

At any rate, the prime minister declares himself thoroughly vindicated by the Rouleau report. But while he now claims to realize he shouldn’t have been so mean about his loser nutbar hate-filled domestic critics, he sees nozink, nozink when it comes to China’s efforts to undermine our democracy. And woe betide anyone who attempts to brief him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Espionage

CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election by supporting Trudeau Liberals

China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.

The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.

No wonder Junior has been lying about about being briefed on CCP skullduggery, he was likely in on the plot. The LPC is a criminal organization that has reduced Canada to Banana Republic status.

h/t DM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Espionage

Chinese Police Report Lists Location in a Richmond, BC, Mall as a Chinese Overseas Police Service Centre

An online post by a local police bureau in China lists a shopping mall location in Richmond, B.C., as one of the bureau’s affiliated Chinese overseas police service centres. The phone number of the centre matches the contact number of the B.C.-based Canadian Association of Nantong Merchants Abroad.

The post by the Nantong Public Security Bureau, which is being first reported in English by The Epoch Times, was published in July 2020. Nantong is a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Jiangsu.

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TikTok scours your phone for personal information

TikTok is designed to collect more personal information than any other major social media app or messaging service, a new analysis claims.

The popular video sharing app has twice as many trackers in its source code than the industry average, according to the cybersecurity company Internet 2.0. The trackers, called software development kits, can be used by developers and advertisers to understand the user better.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage

Chinese Intellectual Property Theft is Nothing New

Why did Justin allow the ChiCom “scientists” to flee back to China?

As I have written in these pages before, I spent 40 years as a scientist in a federal research facility. We always had a steady stream of gifted young (and senior-level) scientists and students who came from all over the United States and from around the world to work as “guest researchers” with us. For the most part, this was a great opportunity for both them and us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, USA

Spy in British embassy was ex-RAF officer who hated Britain and loved Russia

A spy inside the British embassy was snared betraying his country by an undercover MI5 operation involving an agent posing as a Russian intelligence officer called Irina, a court has heard.

David Smith, 58, was a security guard in the British embassy in Berlin who hated the UK and kept a cartoon of Vladimir Putin holding Angela Merkel’s severed head in his work locker.

As far back as 2018, the ex-Royal Air Force officer began gathering sensitive information about British interests and is alleged to have given them to Russia in exchange for money.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage, Russia, UK

Biden administration tried to hide Chinese spy balloon from American public for nearly a week

Update: Chinese spy balloon shot down over Atlantic Ocean

President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act.

“Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.

Sure Joe Sure. China balloon: US going to take care of it, says Joe Biden

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage, USA

Classified U.S. Report Highlighted Foreign Power Surveillance With Advanced Technology

WASHINGTON — The Chinese spy balloon floating over the continental United States generated deep concern on Capitol Hill in part because it came on the heels of a classified report to Congress that outlined incidents of American adversaries potentially using advanced technology to spy on the country.

The classified report to Congress last month discussed at least two incidents of a rival power conducting aerial surveillance with what appeared to be unknown cutting-edge technology, according to U.S. officials. While the report did not attribute the incidents to any country, two American officials familiar with the research said the surveillance probably was conducted by China.

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How Germany’s intelligence agency became a liability for Europe

The unmasking of a German football coach as a Russian double agent is the latest in a string of embarrassments for Berlin’s spy unit

On February 24 of last year Bruno Kahl, Germany’s spy chief, was in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin ordered his forces over the border.

He had travelled for “urgent talks” in Kyiv seemingly unaware of the imminent danger of invasion.

The man heading one of Europe’s most important intelligence agencies ended up being escorted home by special forces in a desperate retreat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage, Germany

Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US – entered via Canada

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, defense officials said on Thursday, a discovery that risks adding further strain to tense US-China relations.

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said the US government has been tracking the balloon for several days as it made its way over the northern United States, adding it was “traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.”

Speaking on background, a senior US defense official said senior military officials had advised President Joe Biden not to shoot it down due to fear the debris could pose a safety threat to people on the ground.

Justin probably sold it an LPC membership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, USA