Hints and tips:
...It’s a bit like the TV show NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, but for dead whales....
...“Jon’s secret is that everyone loves Jon and Jon loves everyone,” Klein said. Nearly everyone....
...the state’s security apparatus, suggesting they help to direct aid efforts....
...This month the MSS accused Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, of using a foreign consultant to spy on China....
...“This action exposes one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent,” attorney-general Merrick Garland said on Monday....
...In 2022 Orbán set up a new intelligence agency, the National Information Centre (NIK), an umbrella group over all other secret services....
...They told her she would become the subject of a state treason case if she did not start co-operating with the security services....
...For property owners, says Sotheby’s agent Tim Estin, “it’s fuelling the sense that . . . the land use code is going to become more restrictive”....
...So there should be a lot more planning of various scenarios and how they’ll get on without the United States, because basically he’ll pull out of any sort of leadership role or people just won’t listen to...
...Assadi’s job meant that he had to travel a lot on work trips across Europe to meet with his various agents....
...Florence gave Laddie Boy to a Secret Service agent, Harry Barker, because he had been the agent assigned to her and his name was Barker, and the first lady liked to theme her bequeathments....
...The two men — Nasser Ali Shaban Ahli from the United Arab Emirates and Chang Chung-Ling from Taiwan — are associates of Vinod Adani, brother of the conglomerate’s founder Gautam....
...The other is what le Carré saw as the lack of a fixed centre to either people or states. We travel under flags of convenience, the theory goes....
...agent, and his daughter at their home in Salisbury, UK, with the same nerve agent....
...It is what Joseph Conrad is getting at in The Secret Agent. But having been back for a year, I recognise it as the distinct achievement, even the point, of London....
...“The key point is that R&AW had been unwilling to take its operations into the west,” said Walter Ladwig, an expert on South Asian security at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London....
...Yet he knew North Korean state security agents didn’t take contact with the south lightly. It wasn’t only himself he’d be putting in danger, but his mother and younger sister too....
...service [agents] in our republic,” Austria’s directorate general for public security — the country’s main intelligence agency known as the DSN — said in its 2022 annual report....
...“Today’s action sends a strong message that we will not allow Chinese Communist party officials to violate US law or harass, intimidate, or conduct surveillance on anyone in the United States,” said Mike...
...Let’s start by comparing the Space Superpowers: the United States and China....
...to share secrets across borders and oceans....
...After training at Newgate Prison, he was added to the official list of state executioners....
...Volumes were modest and Adnoc, Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, only set up its own trading arm three years ago....
...And it’s a fascinating global story because it brings in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, all connected....
...The first Soviet nuclear weapons were built using information stolen by agents who penetrated the Manhattan Project in the 1940s....
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