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espionage

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The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.

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The former spy who is the star witness in the Timor-Leste espionage allegations against Australia received permission from Australia's inspector general of security to take legal advice about his concerns about intelligence gathering in 2004 during negotiations for a lucrative gas treaty, according to Timor-Leste's lawyer Bernard Collaery.

The US and the government of China could agree not to turn the human race into a free-fire zone for espionage.

Citing foreign media reports of Ma's detention, the Chinese editorial said: "In recent years we have frequently witnessed vicious incidents where top Chinese diplomats, military officers and senior research fellows of thinktanks have been involved in espionage and selling intelligence.

President Obama on Wednesday created the first-ever sanctions program to penalize overseas hackers who engage in cyber-spying and companies that knowingly benefit from the fruits of that espionage, potentially including state-owned corporations in Russia and China.

In November, he was charged with inciting the murder of protesters during his presidency, and he will be accused of espionage and insulting Egypt's judicial system at a later date.

He wrote another espionage series adaptation, A Perfect Spy (1987), as well as screenplays for the film Agatha (1979) and for the TV Rebecca in 1997.

Snowden committed espionage on behalf of the human race.

The US has filed espionage charges against Snowden, charging him with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorised person.

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