News you may have missed #502

• Interesting interview with career US intelligence officer. A discussion on al-Qaeda’s quest for nuclear weapons with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the US Department of Energy.
• CIA reveals World War I documents. The CIA has declassified secrets for writing with invisible ink and even opening sealed letters without detection: state-of-the-art spying techniques from World War I.
• Israel indicts Australian for spying for Hamas. Australian citizen Iad Rashid Abu Arja, has been indicted in Israel for allegedly entering the country on a mission from Hamas. According to Israel, Arja “aimed to acquire various technological devices for the purposes of encryption, photography, and guiding missiles”.