China fighter jets fly near US spy plane
Two Chinese jet fighters came dangerously close to an American EP-3
reconnaissance aircraft last week during a mid-air encounter reminiscent of
the April 2001 aerial collision that touched off a United States-China
crisis.....( The Straits Times, 24 Nov 02)
Proposal to Enlist Citizen Spies Was Doomed From Start
The Justice Department's Operation TIPS program, which would have enlisted
tens of thousands of truckers, bus drivers and other workers as citizen
spies, was doomed before it began.....( Washington Post, 24 Nov 02)
Reports of spying spook US Arabs
The surveillance, the informants, the official visits: Professor Ayad
Al-Qazzaz has seen it all before � and not in his native Iraq.....( Daily
Times, 24 Nov 02)
Police inquiry into press leaks
An investigation into media leaks on the Castlereagh and Stormont inquiries
has been ordered by the Northern Ireland's Chief Constable...The
controversy surrounding alleged IRA spying at Stormont led to the collapse
of power-sharing and the government's decision to suspend Northern
Ireland's political institutions on 14 October....( BBC, 24 Nov 02)
Original Bond's life of Reilly
...Instrumental in procuring and selling Russian defence plans in 1904 that
would change the balance of power in the Far East in Japan�s favour, Reilly
is best remembered for the pivotal role he played in the attempted coup
against Lenin�s fledgling Government in 1918.....( Times of London, 23 Nov 02)
Two Pak nationals held near border: BSF
Border Security Force (BSF) jawans have claimed to have arrested two
Pakistan nationals, near the International Border of Hussainiwala...Sources
said both the arrested persons are reportedly members of espionage racket
backed by the ISI, the intelligence agency of Pakistan.....( Times of
India, 23 Nov 02)
Phone bosses seized in spying probe
A senior boss in the Finnish mobile phone firm Sonera has been arrested in
a probe into spying on staff.....(Business World, 23 Nov 02)
Disquieting signals from a neighbour
...Army operations launched in Bangladesh has netted many terrorists and
criminals and sent others scurrying for cover in the remote areas of the
country or to neighbouring countries like India, Nepal, Myanmar and even
Thailand. At the same time, from the Indian standpoint, this arrest is
being linked with the supposed Al-Qaeda and Pakistan's military
intelligence agency, the ISI's activities, within Bangladesh.....( The
Independent, 25 Nov 02)
IIPF heads call on Khatami to serve notice to Judiciary
...Hajjarian categorically denied the espionage charges against those in
charge of the polling institutes, Behrouz Geranpayeh, Abbas Abdi and
Hossein Ghazian and said that levelling espionage charges requires
expertise. Therefore, the Judiciary is unable to level such a charge
against anyone.....( Iran Mania, 25 Nov 02)
Atomic ties link North Korea and Pakistan
Last July, American intelligence agencies tracked a Pakistani cargo
aircraft as it landed at a North Korean airfield and took on a secret
payload: ballistic missile parts, made by North Korea.....( New York Times,
25 Nov 02)
Pray for the Homeland
With all of their flaws, the CIA and the FBI have evolved over decades as
institutions within a democratic and free society. Not so the United
States' newly created Department of Homeland Security.....( Moscow Times,
25 Nov 02)
When We Were Young, and Wary of U.S. Spies
...My cousin's husband impressed me. He was highly educated, athletic, and
as far as I could tell he truly loved Irina. Oh, that old communist
propaganda, how they drilled it into our heads that every foreigner was a
potential spy!.....( Moscow Times Op-Ed, 25 Nov 02)
Did the Mossad assassinate Robert Maxwell?
...Success depended on secrecy, for their work had one goal: Assassination.
They were agents of Israel's Central Institute for Intelligence and Special
Duties, more commonly known as Mossad, and served in a special unit called
the kidon - Hebrew for ``bayonet'.....(Hoovers, 25 Nov 02)
Japan to launch its first spy satellites in February
Japan will launch in February its first spy satellites capable of
identifying 1-m objects on the ground regardless of weather
conditions.....( The Straits Times, 25 Nov 02)
Capable of seeing a baby cart in the land of demons.
Eyeballing de trick anyone?
