News you may have missed #444

• Kyrgyz leader says spies tried to kill him. Kamchybek Tashiev, head of Kyrgyzstan’s Ata-Jurt party, which won the most votes in the recent national parliamentary elections, has accused the country’s State Security Service chief, Keneshbek Dushebayev, of organizing an attempt to assassinate him on October 23.
• Pakistan’s ISI organized Mumbai attacks, say Indians. A report by the Indian government, based on information provided by Pakistani-American informant David Headley, accuses Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
• Russian sleeper agents receive highest state honor. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has bestowed the country’s highest state honor on the Russian sleeper agents deported from the United States earlier this year as part of the countries’ biggest spy swap since the Cold War.