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Deported Russian spy gets Rosneft oil job. Andrei Bezrukov, who lived in the United States under the assumed name Donald Howard Heathfield, and was deported to Russia following his arrest by the FBI last summer, has started a new career. According Russian daily Kommersant, he is now an advisor at state-owned Rosneft, which Russia’s largest oil company.
WikiLeaks defectors to launch OpenLeaks alternative. Hacktivist Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left whistleblower site WikiLeaks after disagreements with its founder, says he plans to launch OpenLeaks in the coming months as an alternative to the high-profile website.
Former spies see benefits in WikiLeaks disclosures. The Obama administration “is on the wrong side of history” in trying to silence whistleblower site WikiLeaks, according to a group of former analysts, intelligence officers and diplomats, which include retired CIA officer Ray McGovern.

Huge demand for spy balloons in Afghan war. The hottest US weapon in Afghanistan lacks a lethal capability, floats thousands of feet in the air and doesn’t carry troops. It’s a spy balloon. Similar contraptions have been making appearances at the Lebanese-Israeli border.
One, two, many WikiLeaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a defector from the WikiLeaks website has said he has decided to jump ship and is thinking of creating a competitor site to Julian Assange’s whistleblower platform.
Is publication of classified info a criminal act? When WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of classified US military records concerning the war in Afghanistan last July, did it commit a criminal act under US law? A US Congressional Research Service report argues that it did not.