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MI5 and the FBI Evolved Alongside One Another, But Their Relationship Hasn’t Always Been Constructive

By Nigel West

Before the Berlin Wall, the KGB Used a Familiar Tool to Undermine Democracy in Germany: Disinformation

By Steve Vogel / History News Network

Virginia Hall Was America’s Most Successful Female WWII Spy. But She Was Almost Kept From Serving

By Sonia Purnell

How Odette Sansom Became One of WWII's Most Remarkable Spies

By Larry Loftis
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Chinese Intelligence Official Charged With Stealing U.S. Aviation Secrets

The charges come as the Trump administration takes a harder line on China

By Tom Schoenberg and Chris Strohm / Bloomberg

Chinese LinkedIn Profile Scam Targeted German Politicians

More than 10,000 German citizens may have been targeted

By Joseph Hincks

Mata Hari's True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death

She was executed on Oct. 15, 1917

By Ray Cavanaugh

That Time the CIA Tried to Train Cats to Be Spies

On the 70th anniversary of the act creating the CIA, here's a look at one of the agency's odder moments

By Olivia B. Waxman

Why Trump Can't Stop the Russia Investigations

Investigators amass evidence under court supervision, regardless of who is in charge

By Massimo Calabresi

Chelsea Manning Petitions President Obama for Shortened Sentence

Manning was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment for leaking government secrets

By Maya Rhodan

A U.S. Woman Has Been Charged With Spying in China

Sandy Phan-Gillis has been accused of "assisting external parties to steal national intelligence"

By TIME Staff

How the IRS Could Better Protect Your Tax Data

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

German 'Triple Agent' Caught Spying

Markus Reichel, who worked in the mail room at Germany's intelligence agency, passed classified documents to the U.S. and Russians

By Mark Rivett-Carnac

The Shocking Story of Hitler’s Jewish Spy

And the lesson it holds for us today

By John Broich / History News Network

The Russian Dissident Whose Poisoning Was Linked to Putin

Who was Alexander Litvinenko?

By Dan Stewart

What the CIA Told JFK and LBJ About Mao

And the real reason, it seems, that the CIA fought for decades to keep these documents secret

By Steve Usdin / History News Network

U.S. Intelligence Chief Doubts China Halted Espionage

The G-20 pledged this week to comply with cybersecurity rules barring commercial espionage

By TIME Staff

Edward Snowden Is On Twitter Now

@Snowden's first tweet seems to be directed at the NSA

By Tanya Basu

China Arrests American Woman, Accuses Her of Being a Spy

This comes ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States

By Tanya Basu

This Map Shows China’s Cyber Invasion Of The U.S. Is Well Underway

There have reportedly been more than 600 successful attacks in the past five years

By Chris Matthews / Fortune
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