By Scott Daugherty The Virginian-Pilot © August 17, 2013 Step one to building an attempted-espionage case: Respond to your target’s personal ad on Craigslist. Step two: Pose as a single woman interested in a relationship and exchange dozens of emails. Step three: Go on a couple of dates at Town Center. That was how the…
By Jim Popkin Washington Post Magazine WASHINGTON — Ana Montes has been locked up for a decade with some of the most frightening women in America. Once a highly decorated U.S. intelligence analyst with a two-bedroom co-op in Cleveland Park, Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the highest-security women’s prison in the nation….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama’s visit to Israel is stirring up a longstanding, sensitive issue involving Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel while working for U.S. Naval intelligence. Seymour D. Reich, a lawyer and former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, writes this week in a letter to the…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com A new FBI PR campaign seems to emphasize that spies in the modern age ain’t your Coldwar Commie. The campaign includes billboards in major cities like the one pictured here, asking the public to be vigilant against spies who may be insiders, like the two Dupont employees charged this year for divulging…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Thomas R. Stutler, a newly minted author, says he likes fiction readers to get a sense authors know what they’re talking about. “My goal when writing fiction is always to make sure the reader can tell the book was written by somebody who was in the game… Every sentence,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Go on eBay and you’ll find it all: a Bottega Veneta handbag; a 1956 Chevy Bel Air van; an uncirculated Eagle quarter shrunk to the size of a dime. But a U.S. spy plane? Yes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa said Monday that it had charged Henson Chua, 47, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard — who worked for Naval intelligence — is back in the news again. The Washington Post reports that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sent a letter to President Obama asking for Pollard’s release. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for…
