Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on June 3, 2024. LeBlanc is tight-lipped following the release of a report that says unnamed MPs have participated in foreign interference in Canadian politics.
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If Canada’s political leaders want the public to trust them, they need to trust citizens with foreign interference information contained in a recent security and intelligence report.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is happening online as well as on the ground.
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The fact that the presidency is attempting to get away with minimal regulation of bulk interception raises doubt about its commitment to ending intelligence abuse.
The head of Crimea’s Russian-backed government Sergey Aksyonov, is behind the reemergence of Smersh.
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Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
Lars Findsen, who headed the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) from 2015 to 2020, had his phone and house wired with bugs by former colleagues.
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The revised law is targeting not only Westerners working in China, but also Chinese nationals who work for foreign companies or organisations or interact with foreigners in any way.
UK foreign secretary, Jame Cleverly, visited China just before news broke that an alleged spy had been working as a parliamentary researcher before being arrested earlier in the year.
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Cutting edge gadgets are unreliable in a world under the threat of artificial intelligence.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins government officials from the U.S. and China during a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.
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Balloons can still be useful for gathering intelligence when used alongside satellites and aircraft.
In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it.
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Despite China’s complaints about the United States shooting down its balloon, the U.S. was within its rights — and China has done the same thing in the past.
The Chinese spy balloon flies over Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Feb. 4, 2023.
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A Chinese high-altitude balloon violated U.S. airspace, a serious enough breach to nix a high-level diplomatic meeting in Beijing. The balloon itself, however, was not much of a threat.