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In 2015 the German newspaper Kicker reported that Cologne - where Eckert was working as a youth coach - had sent an analyst to spy on Hamburg during a warm-weather training camp in Dubai.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Havana carried out an elaborate project called Operation Scorpion to spy on the organization and track its flights.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The world’s largest producer of titanium was the Soviet Union, and the Soviets weren’t about to sell the material to the U.S. to build a plane to spy on them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail “backdoor” to spy on her and company employees.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Many former secret agents, including Gunter Guillaume, testified against him, helping expose Wolf's massive, decades-long effort to spy on the West—which reportedly involved more than 4,000 spies in West Germany alone.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau