On today's episode of Espresso Martini, Chris & Matt take a look at the Chinese “weather balloon” (Spy Balloon), Israel's drone strike on an Iranian missile facility and a Russian spy in the ranks of the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence service



Topics covered



Chinese Spy Balloon & Chinese electronic espionage in the west

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-spy-balloon-over-montana-is-part-of-a-larger-more-troubling-pattern



https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-first-look-chinese-spy-balloon-debris-being-recovered



https://inews.co.uk/news/hidden-chinese-tracking-device-government-car-national-security-2070152



https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists



Iran Drone strike

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/world/middleeast/iran-drone-strike-israel.html



Russian Spy in the BND

German BND officer caught spying for Russia named

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-spy-arrest-germany-foreign-intelligence-agency-treason/



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11712829/Youth-football-coach-unmasked-Putin-spy-passed-Germanys-secrets-Moscow.html



https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/hackers-spies-and-contract-killers-how-putin-s-agents-are-infiltrating-germany-a-2cc6c24c-16ac-43d4-97fa-103081414acc





Other Stories of note:



Suspected Neo Nazi Attacks on US power-grids

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/whos-attacking-our-power-grid/



Russia paying EU MPs

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/kremlin-linked-group-arranged-payments-to-european-politicians-to-support-russias-annexation-of-crimea



Active duty Marines with intelligence roles arrested for connection to Jan 6th

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/19/3-active-duty-marines-who-work-intelligence-arrested-alleged-participation-jan-6-riot.html







Find out more about Matt and his book “Active Measures”

https://mattfulton.net/





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