Espionage and Intelligence | Globalization Is Making It Easier for Foreign-Born Citizens to Spy on the United States

About the author: Bill Gertz is a defense and national security reporter for the Washington Times. He has also written articles for the National Review and Weekly Standard and is author of Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11.

American spies are increasingly women and foreign-born citizens who succeed in passing secrets as volunteers, according to a Defense Department report on espionage.

About 20 Americans have committed espionage or tried to spy since 1990, the report states, and the globalization of economics and the...

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