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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Did China engage in spy swaps?
The Soviet union and then Russia regularly engaged in spy swaps with the West (even if a recent trend seems to be to "get them good" even after the swap, at least on select occasions.) But ...
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Why is this reply by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein funny? [closed]
During the congressional hearing of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on June 28th, Mr. Rosenstein was asked the following question:
Did you threaten to subpoena their [staffers on the House ...
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What could the UK stand to gain from the attempted assassination of ex-spy Skripal? [closed]
Russia has been accused by the UK to be responsible for the alleged chemical attack on Sergey Skripal, but has officially and vehemently denied any involvement. Moreover, Russian government officials ...
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How do these deals with rogue states and the like happen?
It is mostly from Hollywood movies but I have read true story books and have seen news reports on people (not always spies) selling things from weapons, secrets, hacking products, to infiltration ...
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What would the Kremlin stand to gain from killing the ex-spy Sergey Skripal?
What would the Kremlin stand to gain from assassinating the ex-spy Sergey Skripal, now critically ill after being poisoned on March 4th 2018 with a nerve agent?
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What might Russia gain from a false-flag hack on the Olympics?
During the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, a number of South Korean computers were hacked prior to the opening ceremony. A report following the event from two U.S. officials who spoke on the ...
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Did the US request that Russia extradite the 13 Russians charged by Mueller?
On Friday February 16th, 2018, the office of special council announced indictments of 13 Russian Federation nationals with the crimes of fraud against the United States. According to CNN, Russia has ...
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Are the U.S.A. and Russia in a conflict similar to the "Cold War" in 2018?
From my understanding the "Cold War" was not really a war in the traditional sense, but a term to describe the tension between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. as they attempted to destabilise and weaken each ...
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Why doesn't PRC help install a new leadership or stage a coup to preserve DPRK -- or even take it over altogether before the US does?
I realize the title of this question is a bit odd and apparently counter-intuitive, and might give someone a good chuckle, but bear with me for a second.
The People's Republic of China and the ...
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What happens if the President of the United States is deemed a risk to US national security?
Hypothetically, what happens if the President of the United States is deemed a risk to U.S. national security?
If, for example, the President engages in a pattern of (perhaps otherwise entirely ...
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Could a POTUS be prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 [closed]
I hear this talk about POTUS being able to deem "classified" information as "declassified" as per their own arbitrary discretion and per that, the POTUS does not violate anything; I wonder if this is ...
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GCHQ denying circumvention, or not?
In the recent blowup over the unverifiable allegation by a White House spokesman that GCHQ was spying on Trump before the election at the behest of the previous administration, the GCHQ issued a rare ...
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Why would the Russian government use hackers and email leaks to try to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election? [closed]
Assuming the Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security is correct that:
only Russia’s senior-most officials ...
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