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After Khamenei's Death, Iran Sent A Signal To Activate Sleeper Cells: Report
American intelligence agencies have intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran, raising concerns that the signal could serve as a possible trigger for sleeper operatives outside the country.
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Yahoo Denies Surveillance Claims Amid Privacy Outcry
Yahoo on Wednesday rejected allegations of mass email surveillance amid an outcry from privacy activists over a report that it created a special scanning program at the behest of US intelligence.
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Experimental US Drone Sets Flight Record
A US experimental drone has set a record for the longest continuous flight of a craft of its size, staying in the air for three days, the International Aeronautical Federation said.
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US Spy Agency Tapped German Chancellery for Decades: WikiLeaks
The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, according to WikiLeaks.
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Pro-Russia Rebels Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane: Ukraine
Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down a Malaysian jetliner with 298 people aboard on Thursday, sharply escalating the crisis and threatening to draw both East and West deeper into the conflict. The rebels denied downing the aircraft.
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Intelligence report lists Iran and cyber-attacks as leading concerns
Some senior Iranian leaders are now more willing to carry out attacks inside the United States in response to perceived American threats against their country, the Obama administration's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, pointing to last fall's suspected assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
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In Kim's death, an extensive Intelligence failure
Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...
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Pakistan has steadily expanded nuclear arsenal
New American intelligence assessments have concluded that Pakistan has steadily expanded its nuclear arsenal since President Obama came to office, and that it is building the capability to surge ahead in the production of nuclear-weapons material, putting it on a path to overtake Britain as the world's fifth largest nuclear weapons power. (Read: Pa...
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Earlier flight may have been dry run for plotters
American intelligence officials in September intercepted several packages containing books, papers, CDs and other household items shipped to Chicago from Yemen and considered the possibility that the parcels might be a test run for a terrorist attack, two officials said Monday night. Now the intelligence officials believe that the shipments, ...
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After Khamenei's Death, Iran Sent A Signal To Activate Sleeper Cells: Report
American intelligence agencies have intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran, raising concerns that the signal could serve as a possible trigger for sleeper operatives outside the country.
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Yahoo Denies Surveillance Claims Amid Privacy Outcry
Yahoo on Wednesday rejected allegations of mass email surveillance amid an outcry from privacy activists over a report that it created a special scanning program at the behest of US intelligence.
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Experimental US Drone Sets Flight Record
A US experimental drone has set a record for the longest continuous flight of a craft of its size, staying in the air for three days, the International Aeronautical Federation said.
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US Spy Agency Tapped German Chancellery for Decades: WikiLeaks
The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, according to WikiLeaks.
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Pro-Russia Rebels Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane: Ukraine
Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down a Malaysian jetliner with 298 people aboard on Thursday, sharply escalating the crisis and threatening to draw both East and West deeper into the conflict. The rebels denied downing the aircraft.
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Intelligence report lists Iran and cyber-attacks as leading concerns
Some senior Iranian leaders are now more willing to carry out attacks inside the United States in response to perceived American threats against their country, the Obama administration's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, pointing to last fall's suspected assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
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In Kim's death, an extensive Intelligence failure
Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...
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Pakistan has steadily expanded nuclear arsenal
New American intelligence assessments have concluded that Pakistan has steadily expanded its nuclear arsenal since President Obama came to office, and that it is building the capability to surge ahead in the production of nuclear-weapons material, putting it on a path to overtake Britain as the world's fifth largest nuclear weapons power. (Read: Pa...
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Earlier flight may have been dry run for plotters
American intelligence officials in September intercepted several packages containing books, papers, CDs and other household items shipped to Chicago from Yemen and considered the possibility that the parcels might be a test run for a terrorist attack, two officials said Monday night. Now the intelligence officials believe that the shipments, ...
