intelligence

A former U.S. spy, pardoned by Italy in connection with the CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, has fled from Italy to the United States fearing for her safety, Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on Sunday quoted her as saying. Sabrina de ...

The Osaka High Court on Wednesday upheld two lower court rulings that ordered the state to disclose some documents on so-called secret funds, saying the content, if declassified, would not be sensitive enough to interfere with national affairs. In the lawsuits, civic group members sought ...

South Korea will set up a military data link to share imagery and real-time intelligence with Japan and the United States.

A Liberal Democratic Party project team plans to call on the Abe administration to set up a new body to expand Japan's ability to gather information abroad to combat terrorism, according to LDP sources. The move comes amid growing concern about terrorism ahead of a ...

Japan decided Friday to move forward the launch of a government unit to collect intelligence on international terrorism as part of a push to strengthen the nation's anti-terrorism capabilities. The launch on Tuesday of the Counterterrorism Unit-Japan was moved up from April in the wake ...

As Japan gears up to host the Group of Seven summit next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will set up a new intelligence-gathering unit on terrorism as early as next month. "Ahead of the Ise-Shima summit, we will boost our counterterrorism measures ...

James Bond and his fellow fictional British operatives allow U.K. intelligence to project an image that goes well beyond the niggling issues of reality.

Japan plans to double the number of its intelligence-gathering satellites in operation to eight from the current four from fiscal 2023 onward to bolster its surveillance network, deemed as having a de facto spy purpose, officials said. The current setup is already capable of collecting ...