News you may have missed #339 (arrest edition!)

  • US couple arrested for spying for Cuba cooperating, say authorities. Admitted spies Walter and Gwendolyn Myers have met with US federal officials “50 to 60 times” to divulge details of their three decades of spying for Cuba, Justice Department officials said Tuesday. The couple pleaded guilty in November to working for the government of Caribbean island.
  • Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan. Madhuri Gupta, a second secretary at the Indian high commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, has been arrested and accused of passing on secrets to Pakistan’s ISI spy agency. Indian officials believe she may be part of a wider spy ring.
  • Former CIA station chief arrested in Virginia. Andrew M. Warren, the CIA’s Algiers station chief, who is accused of having drugged and raped two Algerian women at his official residence, has been arrested at a Norfolk, Virginia motel, after he failed to show up for a court hearing last week. It is unclear why he skipped the hearing and why he was staying at the motel in his hometown.

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3 Responses to News you may have missed #339 (arrest edition!)

  1. Van says:

    OT: Apparently Herve Jaubert, the French intel operative who “escaped” from Dubai, has published a book:

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124749&sectionid=3510212

  2. intelNews says:

    Yes, he had promised to do it, and has evidently kept his word! Plenty of hype in the book, I hear. [IA]

  3. Van says:

    Should be an interesting read!

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