News you may have missed #0288

• Was Charlotte Observer‘s USSR correspondent a KGB spy? An Observer editor tries to find out who was the mysterious Russia correspondent “employed by The Charlotte Observer“, whom an FBI report in the 1950s described as “unusually well-connected with the Kremlin”.
• US spy chiefs seek UK assurances after Mohamed court ruling. The recent court ruling forcing MI6 to disclose all of Binyam Mohamed’s CIA torture records in its possession, has predictably complicated US-UK spy relations.