Spies

A Virginia man investigated by the FBI after his family reported that he had converted to Islam and may have been radicalized has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, two years after Turkey blocked his entry.

The US Embassy in Sofia was tapped by the counter-intelligence services in communist Bulgaria, which was discovered by the US intelligence agents only in 1990, resulting in a somewhat funny incident resembling a "tug of war" or "rope pulling", a former top Bulgarian spy has revealed in a new book.

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Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was convicted by Russia of betraying agents to British intelligence, was critically ill on March 5 after exposure to an unidentified substance in Britain, two sources close to the investigation told Reuters.

A troubled teen has confessed to gunning down 17 people at his former high school in Florida, court documents showed on Feb. 15, as the FBI admitted it had received a tip-off about the 19-year-old gunman yet failed to stop him.

The third arrest in one year of a U.S. official suspected of helping Chinese spies has bared the tense battle between the two superpowers’ intelligence agencies.

A former CIA officer was arrested on Tuesday at New York's JF Kennedy Airport on suspicion of having illegally acquired top-secret information, Reuters and Associated Press reported.

A man about 60 years old was found dead in a parking lot at a restaurant on Tsar Boris III Obedinitel Blvd in Plovdiv.

This was announced by the spokesman of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior, FOCUS News Agency reported.

The signal for a helpless man is filed after 09.15. The on-arrival medical team found he was already dead.

A Norwegian citizen suspected of espionage was arrested in Moscow. The arrest is for 2 months. Said Interfax, citing information from the spokesman of the Leftor Court in the Russian capital.

The Turkey mission chief of the FBI was summoned to the Ankara Police Department late on Dec. 13 after a former Turkish law enforcement official acknowledged that he collaborated with the FBI after his escape from Turkey to the United States.

When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the “impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.”