Ex-CIA spy flees from Italy to U.S. fearing for her safety, Italian paper says
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 Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win. "The committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence ...
High court upholds disclosure of some documents on government secret funds
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 ...
Seoul to set up intelligence data link that connects it to Japan-U.S. system
South Korea will set up a military data link to share imagery and real-time intelligence with Japan and the United States.
LDP panel to seek establishment of CIA-style intelligence body
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 brings forward anti-terrorism intelligence unit launch
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 ...
Japan's terrorism intelligence unit to be created as early as next month: Abe
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 is the U.K.'s greatest intelligence asset
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 ...
Japan's spy service offers students one-day immersion course in tradecraft
Psst! The Public Security Intelligence Agency — which carries out both domestic and overseas intelligence gathering — is offering college students a chance to try their hand at spycraft. The free, one-day introduction to the secret world of espionage is slated for August 31 and ...
Kim orders new Pyongyang space entity to ready October test-launch of ICBM: sources
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered a new aerospace entity to prepare to test-launch what the country calls a rocket carrying a satellite in October to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country's ruling party, sources in a number ...
A rocket blasted off successfully Thursday morning carrying a backup optical satellite for the government's intelligence gathering program. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. launched the H-IIA rocket at 10:21 a.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. The satellite is ...
