Espionage

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he thinks disclosure of America's secret intelligence is on the rise, fueled partly by the "worship" of leakers like Edward Snowden.

"In some ways, I do think it's accelerated," Pompeo told MSNBC in an interview that aired on June 24.

The condition and most importantly the lack of enough servicemen in the Special Forces and the Army, is very disturbing, said in an interview for Radio Focus general Kircho Kirov, who was chief of the National intelligence agency between 2003 and 2012.

The spying techniques used by Gülenists in collecting intelligence through illegal wiretapping and other secret means suggest they were operating with the cooperation of multiple secret services under strong foreign support, according to a National Intelligence Agency (MİT) report submitted to parliament.

The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.

Turkey has recovered from the recent worldwide cyberattack, which affected 72 countries, and was barely affected by it, the Turkish Communication Authority said on May 16, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The National Security Agency announced Friday it would end its controversial practice of sweeping up any email or text message an American exchanges with someone overseas that makes reference to a real target of NSA surveillance.

WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named “Weeping Angel.” It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV’s built-in microphone.

BELGRADE - Ukraine's Ambassador to Serbia Oleksandr Aleksandrovych on Wednesday denied claims that his country had deployed S-300 missile systems in Croatia, describing as "interesting" a recent statement about this by Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin.

Look at the coincidence; Reza Zarrab was caught at Miami Airport on March 19 last year and was arrested on March 22. 

German media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) reports that Turkish secret agents are operating on a wide scale in Germany and across other European countries. Citing a Kurdish activist called Yuksel Koc, who is currently living in hiding in Germany fearing for his life from the Erdogan government, the report claims that Koc and two German MPs are on the hit list of Turkish intelligence services.