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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China spy balloon story. International implications of the use of foreign airspace [closed]
This is a follow up to this question.
If I understood correctly the USA are not complaining for a single episode, but they claim that China set up a worldwide surveillance system using balloons. The ...
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What would be the advantages of balloon over other spying tech for China?
Why would China send a huge spy balloon to spy on the U.S.?
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bay" estimated to be the size of "two or three school ...
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Do sub-national governments spy on each other?
It's well-known that even "friendly" or "allied" countries regularly spy on each other. Considering this, I started to wonder whether sub-national entities spy on each other too. ...
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Has any head of state ever proven to be a foreign spy? [closed]
WWI and Russia
In his tour de force conspiracy theory book series Victor Suvorov(a pen name) makes a number of claims about alternative interpretation of the origins of the Soviet Union, Germany and ...
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Why does the US need to spy on its allies?
Recently, I've read about the NSA (the US National Security Agency) spying on European leaders - Angela Merkel in particular.
But this is highly unusual for me. I can understand the US spying on its ...
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Does Facebook have a program that regularly checks their employees' (especially their content moderator teams) political involvements?
Recently, here in the Philippines, there's news that Facebook took down an account/group/page of an organization named "Hands Off Our Children". This is an organization that fights for ...
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What stops one country from issuing another country's passports?
In following the ongoing story about a Chinese spy who defected to Australia, I see this paragraph about the breaking point for why the defection happened:
He said that in Taiwan he was part of an ...
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Why did Wang 'William' Liqiang identify himself?
Wang 'William' Liqiang claims to be a Chinese spy who's defecting to Australia.
In the world of spies, double agents, and triple agents, where intelligence agents go to great lengths to conceal what ...
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Have there been any prior cases of US social media employees charged with spying for (or interfering on behalf of) a foreign power?
NBC reports that two Twitter employees have been charged in the Northern District of California for spying for the Saudis.
Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics of Saudi regime, U.S. ...
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Is there a clearly-defined meaning of "asset" in authoritative US national-security documents?
Although aware of the subsequent correction from Clinton's spokesperson, defending the original claim of Clinton that Gabbard is a Russian asset, former double-agent Naveed Jamali writes in Newsweek:
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How does a government agency know if it is compromised?
The U.S. spies on other nations and in turn gets spied on. I don't think I need a citation to prove this.
Every now and then, there are people who gain access to highly classified information and ...
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Why is an Indian spy case in the International Court of Justice?
Pakistan has captured an Indian spy, Kulbhushan Jadhav, and awarded him the death sentence; but India pursued this in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
How does the ICJ have jurisdiction over ...
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Soviet or Russian equivalent of the Church Committee?
Following the Watergate scandal in 1972, the US senate created a select committee (the Church Committee) to investigate the abuse of power by US intelligence agencies.
Has there ever been a Soviet ...
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Is espionage internationally tolerated?
This might be my perception being biased from what media is reporting about.
But how I see it, here in Germany it is usually reported in media like:
"Spy [Name] was convicted of having transfered [...
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Definition of active measures in a political warfare context
Is there a good definition of active measures in a political warfare context? Wikipedia has an article on active measures in that context, but it lacks a concise definition. Rather than stating a ...
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