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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

spies

Security forces arrest two residents of the northern Druze village of Mas'ade on suspicion spying for Iran's IRGC Quds Force, in a photo cleared for publication on December 6, 2024. (Israel Police)
December 6, 2024, 12:13 pm
Father, son from northern Druze village accused of spying for Iran’s IRGC Quds Force
Shin Bet reveals it arrested duo from Mas’ade in November, charging they passed info on IDF activity in Golan Heights to Iranian handlers — the latest in flood of espionage cases
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave US Court House after being found guilty of by jury of spying for the Soviet Union, 1951. (Roger Higgins for the New York World-Telegram and the Sun/Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
September 10, 2024, 9:03 pm
Unsealed memo from 1950 says Ethel Rosenberg ‘did not engage’ in atomic espionage
While historians have long agreed husband Julius was Soviet spy, they have been divided over whether Ethel took part in activities; both were executed by US in 1953
By Eric Tucker
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, March 29, 2024. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
April 1, 2024, 4:55 pm
Kremlin dismisses US, German reports Russia behind ‘Havana Syndrome’
Putin government says no evidence to back up claims military intelligence was present at scenes where American spies reportedly suffered health incidents
By Guy Faulconbridge
Reuben Efron, back center, poses with his brother Irving Effron, below center and his mother and his uncle in an undated photo. (Courtesy Barry Effron/ via JTA)
August 23, 2023, 4:39 am
The CIA agent who tracked JFK’s assassin tried to recruit his nephew — to orthodoxy
Barry Effron says his religious uncle Reuben’s fluency in 6 languages and law office devoid of books raised his suspicions – and his sighting of a UFO in 1957 Russia confirmed them
By Ron Kampeas
Photos of Ted and Joan Hall in 'A Compassionate Spy.' (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
August 12, 2023, 2:43 am
The spy who loved her: How wife shielded US nuclear scientist after intel leak to USSR
New documentary ‘A Compassionate Spy’ reveals the crisis of conscience that led Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall to spy for the Soviets, and how his spouse Joan kept his secret
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Turkish police seen in Ankara, Turkey, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/ Burhan Ozbilici)
July 3, 2023, 7:22 pm
Turkey said to arrest 7 members of alleged sprawling Mossad spy network
Report in pro-government daily claims Turkish intel uncovered Tel Aviv-operated spy ring whose missions included hacking phones and marking targets in Beirut
By ToI Staff
A police tape cordons an area outside a house where Swedish Security Service allegedly arrested two people on suspicions of espionage in a predawn operation in Stockholm, November 22 2022. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
November 25, 2022, 11:43 pm
Trial begins for Iranian-born Swedish brothers charged with spying for Russia
Peyman and Payam Kia allegedly worked together to pass information to Russian military intelligence for over a decade, with Peyman working for secret Swedish spy agency at the time
By AP
People walk through a corridor of Imam Mosque in the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 21, 2022, 10:17 am
Iran claims to arrest three people accused of spying for the Mossad
State TV reports that the individuals were nabbed in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, but doesn’t identify them or how they accessed classified information
By AP
Illustrative: Palestinians are seen on the Israeli side of the Erez Crossing near the border with the Gaza Strip, on September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 17, 2022, 9:28 pm
Gazan used medical entry permit to scout for Hamas recruits in Israel — Shin Bet
Security service says suspect is veteran Hamas member, trained to operate anti-tank missiles; he has provided interrogators with intel on locations of Gaza tunnels, weapons caches
By Judah Ari Gross
An Iron Dome anti-missile battery seen on June 15, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
December 16, 2021, 11:23 am
Arab Israeli, Gazan worker spied on Iron Dome batteries for Hamas, Shin Bet says
According to agency, terror group recruited Israeli citizen and Palestinian who had a valid permit to enter Israel, to gather intel on IDF and prepare for attacks
By Judah Ari Gross
Members of the South African pro-German group the Ossewabrandwag perform their salute in this undated photo from circa WWII. (Courtesy OB Archive, North-West University, South Africa)
October 22, 2021, 4:27 am
How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice
In ‘Hitler’s South African Spies,’ Evert Kleynhans uncovers ‘suppressed’ evidence that members of an ultimately ineffective effort to harm Allied ships escaped prosecution
By Rich Tenorio
'Sleeper Agent,' by Ann Hagadorn; George Koval as a professor at the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in the 1950s. (Courtesy)
October 2, 2021, 6:44 am
How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb
New book ‘Sleeper Agent’ follows George Koval, a little-known US-born Russian spy posthumously honored by Putin – and possibly one of the 20th century’s most influential operatives
By Rich Tenorio
Then-chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, General Hasan Firouzabadi, center, delivers a speech, as Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, right, and army commander Ataollah Salehi, listen, during armed forces parade marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran War, in front of the mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 5, 2021, 8:45 am
Former Iran army chief, who accused West of using lizard spies, dies of COVID-19
Hassan Firouzabadi was a trained doctor who served in administrative roles before rising to lead the Islamic Republic’s military for 27 years
By AFP
Ethel Rosenberg smiles and waves as she leaves New York's Women's detention home in an automobile for the death house in Sing Sing Prison April 11, 1951. The 35-year-old Mrs. Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, 32, were sentenced to die for furnishing wartime atom secrets to a soviet spy ring. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)
July 23, 2021, 8:39 pm
Was the Rosenberg trial America’s Dreyfus affair?
British author Anne Sebba’s new biography of Ethel Rosenberg is a gripping and tragic tale of a complex case involving family betrayal, misogyny, and antisemitism
By Robert Philpot
Left: A photo of William 'Wolf' Fisher from the British Jewry Roll of Honour taken at the start of World War I when he was a private in the Middlesex Regiment (courtesy); a newspaper clipping from the Daily Express covering the exposed spy ring (National Archive).
July 14, 2020, 6:41 am
UK-Jewish spy’s pivotal role in French espionage ring revealed after 95 years
Wolf Fisher, a Polish-born UK intelligence operative, recruited two women, one of whom became his lover, to surveil French navy and air force installations — and then disappeared
By Marc Goldberg
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