The Latest Breaking News from Espionage

Not since a balloon crashed in Roswell, New Mexico have inflatable unmanned craft so dominated the American discourse. Alex Woodward and Andrew Feinberg sum up what we learned this week

A British embassy security guard who fed secrets to Russian agents and put the safety of his colleagues in peril has been jailed for more than 13 years for espionage. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was driven by a hatred of the UK when he became a traitor, collecting secret and…

Fighter jets are on standby in Britain to be launched within minutes to shoot down Chinese spy balloons if they are flown over the country, Rishi Sunak said on Monday.The Prime Minister stressed that the UK would not tolerate such espionage missions after four high altitude objects were blown out…

Arne Treholt, the former Norwegian Foreign Ministry official who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in what became Norway’s biggest Cold War espionage scandal has died in his Moscow home

Australian spy agency’s chief tells Senate espionage and foreign interference ‘supplanted terrorism’ as principal security concern

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that Beijing was focusing increasingly on political espionage. "China is developing wide-ranging spying and influence activities. We must be prepared for these to…

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that Beijing was focusing increasingly on political espionage.

The ‘object’ traveling at 40,000 feet above Alaska posed a greater threat to civilian air traffic than the espionage airship that floated 20,000 feet higher in the atmosphere

China's balloons are a reminder countries are constantly watching each other. In the ever-evolving world of espionage, which intelligence tactics are being used in the face of growing global tensions?