The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida ” The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the U.S....
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The Five Eyes: A New History Illuminates the West’s Global Surveillance Apparatus
From “Friends With Benefits,” by Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, 19 January 2023
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Germany Arrests 25 People Suspected of Plotting to Overthrow ‘Deep State’ Government
In early-morning raids carried out across the country, some 3,000 police and Special Forces officers detained people believed to be members and supporters of the group, which prosecutors said had been formed in the past year and was operating on the conviction that “Germany is currently ruled by members of a so-called deep state” that...
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UAE Meddled in U.S. Political System, Intelligence Report Says
The document was compiled by the National Intelligence Council and briefed to top U.S. policymakers in recent weeks to guide their decision-making related to the Middle East and the UAE, which enjoys outsize influence in Washington. The report is remarkable in that it focuses on the influence operations of a friendly nation rather than an...
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Admit We Have Nukes, Top Israeli Military Figure Says
With negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal stalled, and Tehran just months away from fielding a nuclear device if it chose to, Maj. Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel, a well-known and highly respected figure in Israeli security circles, wants the government to level with the public and admit that the time has passed...