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Old 30th Aug 2020, 20:51
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French Officer Arrested As Russian Spy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ing-for-russia

France: senior military officer suspected of spying for Russia

The French government is investigating a senior military officer over a “security breach”, the defence minister has said, following a report the person was suspected of spying for Russia.

“What I can confirm is that a senior officer is facing legal proceedings for a security breach,” Florence Parly said. She gave no further details.

According to reports, the officer was a lieutenant-colonel stationed with Nato in Italy and had been placed under investigation on suspicion of spying for Russia.

He speaks Russian and was seen in Italy with a man identified as an agent of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, the reports said. He is suspected of having supplied sensitive documents to Russian intelligence.

A judicial source said the officer had been indicted and jailed on charges involving “intelligence with a foreign power that undermines the fundamental interests of the nation”.

He is being prosecuted for “delivering information to a foreign power”, “collecting information harming the fundamental interests of the nation with a view to delivering them to a foreign power” and “compromising the secrecy of national defence”, the source said.

The man was arrested by the French intelligence agency DGSI as he was preparing to leave for Italy at the end of his holidays in France, and was being held at a prison in Paris, radio station Europe 1 said.
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Two spy cases from the US.

US special forces veteran charged with spying for Moscow

Prosecutors say Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, was recruited by the Russians as early as 1996

A former US army green beret living in northern Virginia has been arrested and charged with divulging military secrets about his unit’s activities during more than a decade of contacts with Russian intelligence.

Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, told Russian intelligence he considered himself a son of Russia, according to an indictment made public after his arrest on Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ing-for-moscow

A former US army special forces officer arrested in America on Friday on charges of spying for Russia may have had access to British military secrets.

Peter Debbins, a former Green Beret captain who is said to have become “bitter and angry” after his army career ended prematurely, worked most recently as a Pentagon contractor at RAF Alconbury, the Cambridgeshire airbase used by the US air force.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...ssia-g2dqz26fv

Indictment at following link

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-re...07186/download

A former CIA officer has been arrested and charged with selling secrets to China over several years, the justice department announced.

According to the charges, the former US spy – identified as Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, aged 67 – conspired with an unnamed relative, also an ex-CIA officer, to sell secrets in return for tens of thousands of dollars and gifts.

Former CIA agent sentenced to 19 years for conspiracy with China

Ma was arrested on Friday, following a sting operation conducted by the FBI. The relative was identified only as co-conspirator 1, an 85-year-old naturalised citizen living in Los Angeles, who worked as a CIA officer from 1971 to 1982 with the highest clearance level, with access to the identity of covert CIA officers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-secrets-china

FBI Affidavit at following link

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-re...05301/download





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