MI5 issued a rare public espionage warning saying the China General Technology Research Institute is a front for China's Ministry of State Security and advising universities to review collaboration. These are MI5's assertions; no court has tested them.
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A feed of recent declassifications, document releases, inquiry findings, credible reports and open allegations. Covers July to 30 September 2026. Last updated 30 Sept 2026. Items are added only after a human opens and reads the source.
- VERIFIED Documented in primary records or confirmed by reputable inquiry/reporting.
- ALLEGED Reported or claimed; not established in the public record.
- UNKNOWN Unresolved; no claim is made.
“Verified” can mean “verified that the document was released” — it does not vouch for what the document claims. Charges are allegations until a court rules.
NPR reports the FBI is investigating a breach of its job portal and is pursuing a hacker group called ShinyHunters, which told media it carried out the hack. Attribution is the group's claim and the FBI's belief; the scope of the data taken is not established in the source.
The national review agency (NSIRA) published a report saying CSIS may not have complied with the law when using its authority to commit offences during operations in 2022–2023. The report coverage states this as a possibility, not a final determination.
A Rome court convicted three Egyptian security officials in absentia of the aggravated kidnapping of Giulio Regeni and sentenced each to 10 years; Reuters names one as from Egypt's General Intelligence. A fourth defendant was acquitted. Egypt denies state involvement; this is an Italian court's ruling.
An anti-corruption court suspended Albania's intelligence director and ordered house arrest on suspicion of disclosing classified information in a corruption probe (AKSHI). No one has been convicted.
On the 50th anniversary of the Letelier–Moffitt car bombing, the National Security Archive published newly declassified FBI records, including a 2000 FBI interview of Henry Kissinger. The Archive says the FBI's December 2000 investigative summary is still withheld.
An Argentine federal judge sent eight Iranian and Lebanese suspects to trial in absentia over the 1994 AMIA bombing, including a former Iranian intelligence minister, with asset freezes. These are charges; the accused have not been tried.
The sixth 2026 tranche of declassified UAP records was published, reported as 72 records from 1952 to 2025 (Department of War and Colorado local law enforcement), including the 1952 Tremonton film and 37 AAWSAP reference papers that the tracker says were already largely public. Source is a third-party tracker because war.gov blocks automated access.
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, previously classified presidential briefings and 9/11 Commission interview memoranda were released. NBC reports the briefings show repeated warnings about bin Laden but no definitive information on how or when an attack would occur, and no major new revelations.
As reported by the National Catholic Register, the Justice Department released a report calling the FBI's 2023 Richmond memo a 'grave failure' of responsibility. The FBI retracted the memo in 2023.
A single analysis outlet reports that a Telegram channel posted what it billed as identities of about 70,000 people tied to Morocco's domestic intelligence service and police. The authenticity of the data is not established here.
The Seoul High Court sentenced former NIS director Cho Tae-yong to two years and six months on appeal over evidence destruction, political interference and perjury charges tied to the 3 December martial-law declaration.
PURSUE Release 5 published records from five agencies (Department of War, CIA, State, Executive Office of the President, FBI), including a CIA file on a 1964–65 Puerto Rico sighting that the index says resolves to an OXCART-program YF-12A aircraft. Publication of a record is not evidence about what any sighting was.
An RCMP deputy commissioner was reported saying the investigation found no evidence linking Indian government officials to the 2023 Nijjar killing, contrasting with the then-PM's 2023 statement of 'credible allegations'. The matter is unresolved in these sources.
Refreshing: npm run watchtower:update (scripts/update-watchtower.mjs) scans public feeds and writes unverified leads to data/watchtower-candidates.json. It never edits this page’s data. After a human opens and reads a source, npm run watchtower:approve <id> publishes it with status Unknown unless edited. Optional scheduling notes are in docs/watchtower-github-action.md (not active).