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Zach Dorfman
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What An Indictment of Alleged Chinese Intel Operatives Reveals About U.S. Double Agent Operations

On October 24, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of Guochun He and Zheng Wang, a pair of alleged Chinese intelligence officers, on money laundering and obstruction-related charges (but not, interestingly, for espionage itself). He and Wang are accused of attempting to procure sensitive information about the ongoing prosecution

Zach Dorfman
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The counterintelligence life: a remembrance of FBI agent Bill Kinane

In 1998, amid the chaos and corruption of post-Soviet Russia, Galina Starovoytova, a popular pro-democracy legislator and dissident, was assassinated in her apartment building in St. Petersburg. Many suspected that she had been targeted for her outspoken liberal views. Soon after the killing, Bill Kinane, an FBI legal attaché in