Spy

Open-source intelligence, such as this satellite image of Yelnya, Russia, from December 2021, helped the US government convince the public that its warnings about Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine were credible.Source: Planet Labs
Tech

There's so much data even spies are struggling to find secrets

A staggering amount of data, from Facebook posts and YouTube clips to location pings from mobile phones and car apps, sits in the open internet, available to anyone who looks. US intelligence...

Bolivian President Hugo Banzer shakes hands with Victor Manuel Rocha, the then U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, during a ceremony in the Goverment Palace in La Paz, August 3, 2000. File photo DM/JP/HB, Routers
World+Biz

US charges ex-ambassador with spying for Cuba over decades

Manuel Rocha, former high-ranking diplomat, faces charges of unlawful Cuban advocacy in the US. AFP via Getty Images
World+Biz

Ex-US diplomat arrested in Miami for allegedly acting as a Cuban agent

A rocket carrying a spy satellite Malligyong-1 is launched, as North Korean government claims, in a location given as North Gyeongsang Province, North Korea in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on November 21, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS/ File Photo
World+Biz

North Korea begins spy satellite operations: KCNA

FILE PHOTO - Chinese and US flags flutter near The Bund, before US trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song
China

China uncovers alleged Chinese spy for CIA

FILE PHOTO: A China's flag flutters near people lining up to get tested at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
China

China wants to mobilise entire nation in counter-espionage

Major General Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine, speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Europe

Ukraine's spymaster comes out of the shadows

The exterior of the Marion Correctional Institution where there have been positive cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Marion, Ohio, US, April 22, 2020/Reuters
USA

Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines attends the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 2, 2023. REUTERS/Caroline Chia/File Photo
World+Biz

World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore

The Russian Navy's guided missile cruiser Moskva sails back into a harbour after tracking NATO warships in the Black Sea, in the port of Sevastopol, Crimea November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak/File Photo
Europe

Belgium investigates Russian 'spy ship' in North Sea

FILE PHOTO: David Ballantyne Smith takes video of CCTV monitors at the security kiosk of the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany, August 3, 2020, in this still image taken from a video played in court at the Old Bailey, in London, Britain, February 13, 2023. Metropolitan Police/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

British embassy guard who spied for Russia jailed for 13 years

FILE PHOTO: A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, U.S. February 1, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Chase Doak/via REUTERS
USA

Second spy balloon spotted over Latin America, says Pentagon

FILE PHOTO: A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, U.S. February 1, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Chase Doak/via REUTERS
World+Biz

China says balloon over US is civilian vessel blown off course