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Last Russian intel officers leave Crimea. The last Russian Federal Security Service officers stationed with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea reportedly left the Ukrainian peninsula on Friday, just two days prior to the Ukrainian government’s deadline of December 13.
Australia to establish national security college. The new institution will become “an elite educational center for Australia’s spies and security experts”.

Russia claims intel agents have left Crimea base. Alleged move follows last June’s expulsion by the Ukrainian government of several Russian FSB operatives stationed in the Russian naval base in Sevastopol.
Here’s how US communications providers make money by spying on users. One provider, Cox Communications charges the US government $2,500 to fulfill a pen register/trap-and-trace order for 60 days, and $2,000 for each additional 60-day-interval. It also charges $3,500 for the first 30 days of a wiretap, and $2,500 for each additional 30 days.

CIA invests in advanced search engine software. Agency’s In-Q-Tel investment arm is now funding Lucid Imagination, a new software start-up.
US Congress says NSA email surveillance program far wider than first thought. Critics in Congress say the scope of NSA’s recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans is much broader than previously acknowledged.
Ukraine to expel all Russian intelligence agents from Sevastopol. Ukraine’s National Security Agency says 19 Russian FSB agents stationed in Sevastopol must leave the country by December 13. Ukraine says in intends to evict the Russian naval forces from their base in Crimea when the current lease runs out in 2017.