From Top World Intelligence Agencies MSS is responsible for China’s foreign intelligence and counterintelligence mission. Despite reports of internal turmoil, the Chinese intelligence has had numerous successes. In the field of economic espionage, the FBI considers China the biggest threat to the United States. In December 2018 U.S. prosecutors charged two MSS agents for their role...
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What Does the NSA Do?
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) Once upon a time Washingtonians said NSA stood for “No Such Agency.” Now NSA is well-known but is regarded as the most secretive of all U.S intelligence agencies. It is responsible for collecting signals intelligence such as email, texts, telephone calls and radio and TV communications. Its budget in 2014 was...
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State Department Cuts Off Funding for Trolls of Critics of Trump’s Iran Policy
Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post, imprisoned for 544 days by the Iranian government on dubious charges of spying, was surprised to find himself the target of another government spewing unfounded allegations: the U.S. government. In today’s Post he writes I never imagined the U.S. State Department would be funding my attackers. The Guardian has the...
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Spy Museum Uses Torture to Entice
Mark Fallon, former investigator at Guantanamo, noticed an advertisement for the International Spy Museum in Washington. On a recent trip to the museum I picked up on many subtle–and not so subtle–messages to valorize the deeply problematic deeds of secret intelligence agencies.
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ISI: Pakistan’s Powerful Intelligence Service
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) ISI in the news: India: Pakistan’s spy agency involved in Kashmir bombingI (Feb. 19, 2019) ISI is widely regarded as the “deep state” of Pakistan. It is a powerful but opaque intelligence service that manages Pakistan’s elected government and controls and the nation’s substantial nuclear arsenal. ISI sponsors Islamist insurgencies in...