Security

In Part 2 of our investigative series, we examine how booby-trapped equipment slipped into wartime aid networks in Ukraine, targeting Russian soldiers. by Susan Katz Keating The Russian soldier placed the FPV goggles on his head, and flipped the switch on his drone console. He expected to see real-time images …

War creates borders. Borders shape power. We examine what moves along the seams. by Susan Katz Keating The soldier lifted his rifle until the business end was inches from my face. “What brings you to Northern Ireland?” he asked.  I took a step back, and he lowered the weapon. I now …

by Susan Katz Keating When President Donald Trump announced the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, he cited the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines. He included it as part of Iran’s long record of directing proxy attacks on American forces. Here’s how the day unfolded. …

A paperboy dropped a coin in Brooklyn, and wound up exposing a Soviet spy network. by Jose Campos It sounded wrong when it hit the floor. Jimmy Bozart, a 14-year-old Brooklyn paperboy, had been collecting subscription money along Foster Avenue on a humid June evening in 1953. Back home, he …

Krasmir Kamenov was found shot dead along with his wife and two others in their home in a suburb of Cape Town in 2023. The killings remain unsolved. by Tony Wesolowsky He was one of Bulgaria’s most notorious mafia kingpins, who rose through the ranks in the chaotic 1990s, acquiring …

by Mitchell “Taco” Bell A pilot flying a 737 meets a coordinated laser attack inside Mexican airspace. Guadalajara, MX? Yeah, the law there is optional. That is the best comment about having a seemingly coordinated attack on a civilian airliner on approach into Guadalajara, Mexico.  Those green lasers that can point …

by Nikolay Shevchenko It was late evening when a cash truck pulled up in front of a fancy department store on Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow. Leaving two partners behind in the truck, the third guard stepped over the store’s threshold to collect the cash that had piled up there throughout …

by Susan Katz Keating The promise of Red Mercury infiltrated the underworld of gullible would-be tyrants, despots, and autocrats, sparking imaginations and a frenzy of deal-making. But what was this mysterious substance? It was the ultimate black market sensation. A substance so powerful it could transform even a lone terrorist …

The warning arrived amid the most intense security operation Britain had faced in decades. by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU – In the lead-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, London was bracing for a global spotlight, and a threat environment to match. So when Michael Shrimpton claimed that the games would be …

For nearly a decade, Aldrich Ames operated inside the CIA’s counterintelligence core while feeding Moscow the identities of American human sources. His death in federal custody closes the final chapter on a betrayal that reshaped U.S. intelligence. by Jose Campos He didn’t die in a firefight or under interrogation lights. …