Espionage
To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its State-Owned Enterprises
The PRC’s strategic use of SOEs poses an existential threat to American economic sovereignty and security. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has turned balance sheets into battlefields, reportedly stealing up...
A French Rafale Jet Just Intercepted A Russian Spy Plane Over The Baltic
The IL-20M remains the main star of Russia’s airborne electronic intelligence capabilities.
Donald Trump is Right: Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sold Hypersonic Tech to Russia
Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, with Clinton’s copious help, was the source of Russia’s incredible hypersonic weapons technology.
A Russian Spy Ship Is Sitting in the English Channel—And Britain Is Watching
Since the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, espionage and sabotage instances across Europe have increased.
Pentagon Blacklists China’s “Tencent” Video Game Giant
Video game publisher Tencent was one of several Chinese companies that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) claimed had links to China. On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced it had...
Smokeless War: Europe is Getting “Boursicoted” by Beijing
In 1964, Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy, started a perplexing liaison with French diplomat Bernard Boursicot. Their trysts always took place in the dark, which Boursicot...
The Civil War “October Surprise” That Wasn’t
Presidential candidates dread sudden reversals of fortune in a campaign’s final weeks. Modern-day “October Surprises” include Richard Nixon prematurely announcing a Vietnam peace agreement (1972), Iran refusing to release U.S....
Stop Federal Grants from Strengthening China’s Military
Last November, investigative reporters uncovered that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had provided $30 million in artificial intelligence research grants to a Chinese scientist at the Beijing Institute of...
The U.S. Economy Is Losing as Much as $600 Billion a Year in Intellectual Property from Chinese Espionage
Here you are, sitting at your desk, walking to the metro, strolling through the airport, and waiting for your flight. Look around you. Do you see all those people walking busily,...
Into the Breach: Countering Chinese Digital Espionage in Routers
For anyone following the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) actions related to digital technology, the specter that Chinese companies could be leveraged to conduct intelligence activities has been ever-present. National security...
Two U.S. Citizens Arrested for Trying to Sell Military Technology to Russia
Although China is the most serious long-term threat to the national security of the United States, Russia remains a capable adversary. Moscow presents a multifaceted and acute threat to the...
The Classification Problem: Can the CIA Defeat Its Greatest Internal Enemy?
In a world of rapid change and geopolitical turbulence, intelligence services are an important weapon in a policymaker’s arsenal. When it comes to human intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...