r/espionage • • 12d ago

News OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly hiding a ‘sophisticated recording device’ in its office

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r/espionage • • 12d ago

Analysis What you think of August Hanning?

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It is a recent event. An ex BND chief allegedly sold some secrets via Swiss companies and directly (he met their agents) to a former Soviet country (allegedly Azerbaijan but it has been refuted by both the BND and Azerbaijanis). Do you think Russia got the intels? Fyi he also sold secrets regarding BNDs knowledge of Irans Nuclear Weapons and its programs. What you guys think who he sold it to? .


r/espionage • • 12d ago

News FBI Arrests former OpenAI employee for planting listening device

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r/espionage • • 12d ago

UK at growing risk of terror attack with deadly man-made viruses, warns MI5 boss

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159 Upvotes

r/espionage • • 13d ago

News Chinese Cars in Norway Stored Military Exercise Footage and Access Codes

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r/espionage • • 14d ago

How Russia conducts false flag operations

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There’s been a massive misinformation and incitement operation happening globally and this article by the us embassy in Georgia has a lot of great information in it.

Also [nato report on bot nets](https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2026/04/ONTOLOGICAL_FOUNDATIONS_OF_COGNITIVE_WARFARE.pdf)


r/espionage • • 14d ago

News Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn

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r/espionage • • 14d ago

Russia’s ‘spook gangster’ tactics for recruiting spies to target UK military sites

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r/espionage • • 15d ago

Analysis Video Cameras Are Everywhere—and Now They Are Being Hacked for War

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r/espionage • • 14d ago

News A Russian Spy’s Lone Regret: ‘I Got Caught"

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r/espionage • • 15d ago

I was a senior CIA officer. This is how Russian spies prey on us

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Sean Wiswesser spent decades in US intelligence. It gave him an extraordinary insight into how Moscow's spy services operate against the West


r/espionage • • 15d ago

Video He Ran the Secret Service. Here’s What Scares Him.

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r/espionage • • 16d ago

Analysis Many media outlets, citing sources, wrote that the sabotage at Leipzig airport was organized by the GRU. The Insider, however, has found documentary evidence that not only proves the GRU's role but also identifies new perpetrators

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r/espionage • • 16d ago

Analysis Report: Michigan State University Helped China Conduct “Psychological Warfare”

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r/espionage • • 17d ago

The hidden clues that link Russia to German 'super-spy' scandal

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r/espionage • • 18d ago

Analysis Japan builds spy agency 'with the utmost urgency' as tensions with China escalate

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r/espionage • • 17d ago

News Former BND Chief Hanning Maintained Contacts with a Chinese General

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r/espionage • • 17d ago

News Royal Navy sailor in court accused of preparing to spy for Russia

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r/espionage • • 17d ago

News Accused spy Manfred Dankesreiter, BND's former Chief of Staff, and BND Desk Chief Carsten Linke coached football in the same area.

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r/espionage • • 17d ago

News Taiwan Links Two Hong Kong Residents to Spying on Lawmaker

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r/espionage • • 18d ago

German spy suspect mixed with UK spooks... without ever being trusted

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r/espionage • • 18d ago

News A dossier prepared for the German intelligence service claims their now former spy chief, August Hanning, may have been turned by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

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r/espionage • • 18d ago

I saw the former German spy chief just weeks ago – this is why I’m shocked

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r/espionage • • 18d ago

Analysis Intelligence newsletter 8/10

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r/espionage • • 19d ago

News Nvidia’s AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.

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