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Both the US and China have already issued counter warnings to would-be double-dealers who might wish to strike trade deals at the expense of each other’s interests.

US charges Tiananmen Square protester with spying for China

He is also accused of lying to the FBI for claiming he no longer had access to an email account used to communicate with his state security handler

The happy couple: What did psychiatrist Ingrid Williamson think and feel knowing that her husband, Craig, had been responsible for killing Ruth First, Jeanette Schoon and her daughter Katryn?

The two faces of Doctor Williamson, wife of an apartheid serial killer

Ingrid Evita Williamson is a psychiatrist praised for her kindness. But for nearly 50 years she has been the devoted wife of Craig Williamson, the security policeman who admitted…

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Tiny Rowland: ​Businessman, spy, friend of apartheid?

Who was Tiny Rowland, and why was he jetting into Waterkloof three decades before the Guptas were offered this privileged access?

Damp squib: Ex-spooks say it’s unlikely that national intelligence was behind the break-in at Mogoeng Mogoeng’s offices. Photo: Paul Botes

Chief justice break-in fuels conspiracy theories

Insiders say the country’s spies have better ways to get ‘kompromat’ than stealing judges’ PCs.

In the late 1970s

Still fighting spy wars

The current Spy vs Spy farce summons a sense of déjà vu, with a CIA spook lurking in every nook.

Talks with Iran at UN headquarters in Vienna in April sought to unpick the international nuclear knot.

Spy cables: SA pressured by US to monitor Iranian agents

Iranian embassy staff members in Pretoria were scrutinised despite intelligence service stating repeatedly that Iran poses no threat to the country.

Iran’s minister for information and communications technology

Iran unearths Basir, an ‘Islamic Google Earth’

The Iranian authorities have accused Google Earth of being a tool for western spy agencies, and are now planning to launch an "Islamic" competitor.

Secret state tightens screws

In October 2008 Parliament shelved two Bills that could have a severely negative impact on the free flow of information in this country.