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Germany’s federal domestic intelligence service has allegedly declared the Alternative for Germany (AfD) a suspected extremist group, allowing the agency to actively spy on the populist party.

The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party faces possible observation by the German security services, just eight months before the country’s national election and amidst sluggish poll numbers.

The Boris Johnson administration’s efforts to pass legislation which will allow the state to recruit children to spy on their parents and even break the law while doing so has horrified some of the party’s top parliamentarians.

Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday morning, 35 years after his arrest.

A recent report claims that the Xplora 4 smartwatch made by the Chinese-owned company Qihoo 360 Technology and marketed to children in the U.S. and Europe can secretly take photos and record audio when activated by an encrypted SMS message.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Researcher Turab Lookman was sentenced to probation this month over his failure to disclose ties to the Chinese government. Lookman was a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a joint project between Texas A&M University and the University of California system, but participated in China’s “Thousand Talents” program, a scheme to steal research from universities and government-funded programs in the West.

UK Politicians, members of the Royal Family, and military officers have been surveilled by a Chinese tech company, a report has found.

A Chinese agent has admitted to using the career-focused social media platform LinkedIn’s “relentless” algorithm to find batches of U.S. government contacts with access to sensitive information. The spying operation would then gather data and send it to the communist regime in Beijing.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has revealed that an Egyptian spy worked in the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert for years, possibly collecting information on Egyptian opposition groups.

China has escalated its attacks against Australia on Monday, accusing the country’s government of carrying out espionage in China, describing such allegations as the “tip of the iceberg.”

A Chinese citizen that completed a portion of a doctoral program at an unnamed Californa university was convicted of stealing American trade secrets on Friday. The DOJ charged the man with conspiring to steal trade secrets from multiple American companies and hand them over “for the benefit of the Chinese government.”

A recent joint report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Mission and Counterintelligence Mission centers alleged that video-conferencing app Zoom could be vulnerable to foreign surveillance.

An MSNBC segment from late last week raised some eyebrows after it uncovered a program that some municipalities across the U.S. are partaking in, using Chinese-made drones to enforce social distancing among Americans.

According to a recent report from Time, U.S. Intel Officials believe that foreign spies are targeting video chatting platforms such as Zoom to spy on business executives, government officials, and scientists using the apps during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Naturalized U.S. citizen Edward Peng Xuehua was sentenced to 48 months in prison and fined $30,000 Tuesday after being convicted of passing sensitive U.S. information to China on behalf of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

The United States warned its allies that Chinese tech giant Huawei has ‘back door’ access built into its networks, prompting MPs to call for Boris Johnson to reverse his decision to allow the company to help build the UK’s 5G infrastructure.

For decades, the Central Intelligence Agency was a secret owner of a Swiss encryption firm, giving U.S. officials the ability to read encoded documents from both allies and enemy nations, according to a CIA analysis obtained by the Washington Post and the German public broadcaster ZDF.

The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reassured Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his decision to involve Chinese firm Huawei in developing Britain’s 5G network will not harm U.S.-UK relations.

Swiss police caught two Russian men suspected of attempting to install spying equipment for the Kremlin at the World Economic Forum at Davos.

The new leader of the German Social Democrats (SPD), Saskia Esken, has been accused of spying on her own employees in the past by German media

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) investigated Ranking Member Devin Nunes (D-CA) as part of the impeachment inquiry.

Careless elites in government and in universities help the Chinese government steal U.S. technology and get taxpayer funding for Chinese research, says a bipartisan report by the Senate investigations committee.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police have confiscated a van reportedly loaded with sophisticated surveillance equipment and have questioned its Israeli owner following media reports that the vehicle was being hired out to spy on people.

Federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia after an FBI investigation found that the workers accessed private user information and dug into the accounts of critics of the Saudi government.

BERLIN (AP) – Prosecutors in Germany say they have indicted an army employee with spying for an Iranian intelligence service.

Iran claimed Tuesday it had discovered and dismantled a “big” American spy operation on its territory, with links to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency destroyed in the process.

Attorney General William Barr said in a recent interview that the answers he has gotten to why the government began spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 are “inadequate” and have raised more questions than before.

Joe diGenova predicted that “some of the people responsible” for concocting and executing the Russia hoax “are going to go to prison.”

“That’s a big story, That’s a story that’s bigger than Watergate, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said.

Grassley and Johnson are asking Barr to look into texts suggesting the FBI wanted to develop sources in the incoming Trump administration.

Appearing Friday on MSNBC, former CIA Director John Brennan said he welcomes “further investigation” into the Obama administration’s role in surveilling the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

Appearing Friday on the Fox News Channel, 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) argued the 2016 Trump campaign is not owed an apology for being surveilled by the FBI under the Obama administration. 

When a flaming left-wing nitwit like CNN’s Chris Cillizza says that instead of “spying,” it should be described as “surveillance approved by a FISA court,” that tells you just how dishonest the media are willing to get to protect the villains in this story.

“I think what he said was absolutely true,” Trump said. “There was absolutely spying into my campaign.”

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson dismissed the media’s rejection of Attorney General William Barr’s statement the Obama administration spied on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Carlson cited “professional dumb person” Jennifer Rubin’s remarks as an

U.S. tech companies including Dell, IBM, and HP are reportedly concerned that China may be spying on them through power cords and plugs manufactured in the country.