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Secret information shared by U.S. and UK spy agencies may have been compromised when a senior IT technician for Switzerland's intelligence service (NBD) stole a massive amount of internal data, Mark Hosenball of Reuters reports.
The technician, who had unrestricted access to most if not all of NBD's networks, reportedly downloaded terabytes of classified material onto portable hard drives and then carried the trove – equivalent to hundreds of thousands or even millions of printed pages – out of government buildings in a backpack.
Intelligence agencies, including the CIA and M16, routinely share data on counterterrorism and other issues with the NDB.
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Either way, the breach is being downplayed as the CIA and M16 declined ot comment while oneU.S. official told Reuters he was unaware of the case. Read more: www.businessinsider.com...
A Canadian naval intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia over four-and-a-half years, Steven Chase and Jane Taber of The Globe and Mail report.
Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle, 41, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of “communicating with a foreign entity” and "breach of trust" for funneling top military secrets from his post at the ultra-secure Trinity naval intelligence center in Halifax to Russia for about $3,000 a month.
A prosecutor at the bail hearings cited intelligence sources who feared the scandal could throw Canada’s relations with allied intelligence organizations“back to the Stone Age.”
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So while Delisle searched Canadian databases for the term “Russia" he was not only scouring Canadian intelligence but that of the Five Eyes aas well. Read more: www.businessinsider.com...
A Swiss parliamentary committee is now conducting its own investigation into the data theft and is expected to report next spring. Investigators are known to be concerned that the NDB lacks investigative powers, such as to search premises or conduct wiretaps, which are widely used by counter-intelligence investigators in other countries.