Questions tagged [espionage]
Espionage (also called spying) is the process states use to gather intelligence on each other. Use with specific country tags.
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What useful information can court judgments provide to intelligence agencies?
China’s court system appears to be dramatically pivoting away from a
decade-long effort at judicial transparency. A leaked document from
China’s top court – dated November 2022 - reveals that ...
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Which Western allies of the US have been caught spying against the US?
I was debating a friend of mine as to whether it is in the American interest to continue supporting Israel. I argued against this. One point I raised was that Israel has an extensive history of covert ...
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Is there a precedent for a Western European country expelling U.S. diplomats over spying?
Events in September this year led to the unfolding of a spy saga
involving the US and Spanish intelligence agencies, with the focus
centred on Madrid.
The Spanish Government confirmed reports to El ...
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Is there any precedent of technology falling into the hands of the Chinese or Russians through Israel?
Is there any precedent of technology falling into the hands of the Chinese or Russians through Israel?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-approves-selling-f-22-raptor-to-israel-report/
US Secretary ...
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Does the European Union play any role in mediating conflicts related to industrial espionage between two member countries?
AFP - France is the top offender when it comes to industrial
espionage, and is even worse than China and Russia, the head of a
German company was quoted as saying in a leaked US diplomatic cable
made ...
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Was an Israeli spy ever arrested and sentenced to jail by the U.S. according to the public domain?
"The Israelis are pretty aggressive" when it comes to espionage,
including against the United States. "They're all about protecting the
security of the Israeli state and they do ...
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Have any NATO countries publicly raise objections as being spied upon (by the US) in "Operation Triangulation"?
According to a story sourced to the FSB
“The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Federal Security Service of Russia, uncovered a reconnaissance operation by American ...
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What was the biggest punishment given by Canada against a U.S. spy?
OTTAWA—New figures show Canada has turfed out five spies in the past
decade from a surprising source country — its best friend and ally,
the United States.
From 2004 to 2014 Ottawa sent back to the U....
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Was an American spy ever punished for spying against an European country according to what's available in the public domain in modern time?
Was an American spy ever punished for spying against an European country according to what's available in the public domain?
COPENHAGEN, May 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
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Did China ever get caught spying on a government in a Western country using their technology, alleged or proven?
According to Le Monde Afrique, in January 2017, the African Union's IT
department noticed that their server traffic was unusually full
between midnight and 2 a.m. local time, when few people were
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Has the downing of a spy airplane ever been a justifying ground for waging war or causing an escalation that might lead to war?
Both the cause of the collision and the assignment of blame were
disputed. The U.S. government stated that the Chinese jet bumped the
wing of the larger, slower, and less maneuverable EP-3. After
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1kFbUmUy0
The above video describes the U.S. detecting an alleged spy balloon and U.S. General Milley claiming that the balloon was a spy balloon, but that it did not ...
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Is China's definition of spying one of the loosest in the world?
The United States government, analysts, and lawyers say that the
revisions to Beijing's anti-espionage law are vague and will give
authorities more leeway in implementing already opaque national
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For the purpose of espionage, is it more beneficial to have access to the original classified documents versus its copies?
As far as I understand, the illegal access to classified documents in the US is regulated by the Espionage Act. This old act has since been amended to cover electronic copies of classified information....
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Is the link between China's research and espionage a recent phenomenon or a pattern?
In August 2022, a Chinese ship, the Yuan Wang 5 visited Sri Lanka.
This was claimed to be a "research ship" by China, while
India said it was a "spy ship".
This caused certain ...
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