The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use. Until Someone Did. For nearly three decades, since a Soviet whistle-blower told the world of its existence, the nerve agent Novichok has scared American weapons experts. The Pentagon sent teams to destroy abandoned laboratories that once produced the chemical, believed to be orders […]
Espionage and Intelligence Services
British Investigators Visit Graves of Russian Ex-Spy’s Wife and Son Britain authorities investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter visited the graves of Mr. Skripal’s wife and son in the cathedral town of Salisbury, England, on Friday. Dressed in large hazardous-material suits, the […]
Two North Korean Spies, a Ukrainian Jail, and a Murky Tale Two North Korean Spies, a Ukrainian Jail and a Murky Tale:- The North Korean spy, posing as a member of his country’s trade delegation in Belarus, thought he was photographing a secret scientific report on missile technology as he […]
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With State Secrets? On Monday, Americans learned that President Trump shared with the Russians highly classified intelligence about the United States fight against the Islamic State. Mr. Trump jocularly passed secrets obtained by Israel to Kremlin representatives in a White House meeting last week, blithely […]
Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying:- President Trump provoked a rare public dispute with America’s closest ally on Friday after his White House aired an explosive and unsubstantiated claim that Britain’s spy agency had secretly eavesdropped on him […]
White House Says Trump Wiretap Claim Was Meant More Broadly White House Says Trump Wiretap Claim Was Meant More Broadly:- Two senior White House officials suggested on Monday that President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama had tapped his telephone was not meant to be taken literally, arguing that […]
