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The parents of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Russia on espionage charges, revealed that President Joe Biden has vowed he will not rest until their son is back in the United States. “President Biden spoke to us and gave us a promise to do whatever it takes,” Ella Milman, Gershkovich’s mother, said during an appearance on “Good Morning America.” She added that the president spoke to them “as a parent” and that she and her husband, Mikhail Gershkovich, trust the United States Government is doing everything it can to bring Evan home. “[H]e told us he understands our pa......

China’s espionage efforts in Cuba targeting the United States are not recent and date back at least three decades, a retired army counterintelligence agent has told the Miami Herald. It took U.S. intelligence agencies nine years to figure out who was behind the repair and enhancements spotted during the 1990s at a “signals intelligence facility” — a reference to the interception of electronic communications — in the town of Bejucal, a 45-minute drive from Havana. “We saw the enhancements over a decade, a steady evolution; clearly something was going on, but we didn’t know what,” said Chris Sim......

Multiple whistleblowers with access to restricted government information have claimed first-hand knowledge about U.S. activity involving UFOs, Sen. Marco Rubio said this week. Rubio, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, revealed in an interview with NewsNation that current and former government employees with high-level security clearances have “over the last couple of years” shared information with the committee involving what are now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs. Rubio’s remarks come after intelligence whistleblower and former member of th......

Ana Montes, a Cuban spy who gave up American secrets for 17 years while working for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was released from prison Friday. Montes, 65, served more than 21 years of her 25-year sentence. She did her time at FMC Carswell, a women’s prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Montes was arrested in September 2001, just 10 days after the attacks on the World Trade Center. By that time, her bosses were already suspicious of her, and they didn’t want to risk her leaking the plans for the invasion of Afghanistan. Potentially facing the death penalty, Montes cut a deal with federal prosecu......

Russia acted with impunity when it hacked U.S. government servers in a global cyber-espionage campaign and could do far more damage next time — like cutting off the nation’s water and electricity supply, GOP Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Utah senator said the massive cyberattack discovered earlier this week, which officials say could be the biggest hack on the American government ever, must be met with a vigorous response and without delay. “I don’t know if we have the capacity to do that in a way that would be of the same scale or even greater scale tha......