In an affidavit seeking permission to search Dr. Lee's house in April 1999, an F.B.I. agent stated that Chinese "intelligence operations virtually always target overseas ethnic Chinese with access to intelligence information".
Apart from those off-the-cuff examples, there's the rather obvious fact that some NATO member states conduct cyber intelligence operations against other NATO members which begs the question - who is the cyber shield supposed to be protecting us from?
LONDON — An Iranian diplomat seized by gunmen in a little-known 2008 case in northwest Pakistan has been freed by Iranian agents "after complex intelligence operations," state-run Iranian television reported on Tuesday without describing in detail how the envoy was released.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, appealed to Afghanistan to forbid the US from flying drones through its airspace, and from using its land or airspace for intelligence operations, according to the state news agency, IRNA.
The Obama administration distinguishes between the hacking and corporate theft that the Chinese conduct against American companies to buttress their own state-run businesses, and the intelligence operations that the United States conducts against Chinese and other targets.
"They collect information that is of use in helping inform our policies and actions … the secretary of state is not telling her diplomats to be spies". The intelligence gathering directives were sent from the intelligence operations office within the state department's bureau of intelligence and research, which describes itself as "at the nexus of intelligence and foreign policy".
At the time of Mr Litvinenko's assassination in 2006, British investigators said that only a sophisticated operation by a state intelligence agency could obtain and use polonium-210 in a lethal form.
But the Gulf states can counter Iranian subversion, regardless of Iran's nuclear status, with domestic reforms and by improving their police and intelligence operations -- measures these states are, or should be, undertaking in any case.
But the next sentence – classified as not to be shared with foreign partners – states that governments "reserved the right" to conduct intelligence operations against each other's citizens "when it is in the best interests of each nation".
"A major reason," said the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, John R. Bolton, "is Cuba's aggressive intelligence operations against the United States".
