Claude Levi-Strauss is familiar to anyone who took Anthropology 101 as the most important anthropologist of the 20th century and a father of structuralism, the theoretical forebear to post-structuralism, post-modernism, deconstruction and all that weird subversive French philosophy your parents warned you about. Which may explain why the FBI spent close to a decade spying on him in the 1940s.

In the weeks before the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, the CIA had a prominent doctor organize a fake vaccination drive, in an attempt to secretly collect DNA from him and his family.

ZOMG! The national security world is totally as petty, gossipy and vicious as a pack of 13 year old girls. Just look at the hysteria surrounding supposed Twitter spy "Shawna Gorman."

The mysterious Stuxnet worm may have kicked the crap out of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor last August. Now, Iranian's commander of civil defense says they have discovered a new virus called "Stars."

Where did Dancho Danchev go? The Bulgarian cybercrime researcher has been missing since last August. The only clues: A source who says he's "in a lot of trouble," and pictures of a mysterious government surveillance device found in his apartment.

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was indicted today for leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen. The indictment shows that the federal government had access to their e-mail and phone contacts going back several years.

A remote-controlled drone owned and operated by the government of Mexico crashed "in someone's backyard" near El Paso last week. What was it doing there?

A 25-year-old parliamentary aide was arrested by British authorities on Thursday, and currently faces deportation. For spying! Yes, only a few months after it was cool to have a sexy Russian sleeper agent, the U.K. finally gets their own.

Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is more than just "saber-rattling," and Justice Department officials are claiming he violated the Espionage Act. If that's true, isn't the New York Times guilty as well?

Did you hear about the secret talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban aimed at ending the War in Afghanistan? Well, it turns out the "senior commander" the Afghan government was meeting with... wasn't.

Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that the Foreign Intelligence Service has sent a hit squad after the double agent who sold out sexy spy Anna Chapman and nine others. "We know who he is and where he is," an official said.

International fameball Anna Chapman and the nine other Russian spies who were busted back in July were awarded the Kremlin's top medal from President Dmitry Medvedev today. That was right after Chapman appeared in a dirty Russian Maxim photo spread.

Geoffrey Kemp was once Reagan's assistant for national security affairs and a National Security Council employee. Turns out he was also the FBI and State Department's prime suspect for leaking classified material to newspaper duo Robert Novak and Rowland Evans.

The Russian spy story continues: A mid-twenties software tester at Microsoft, Alexey Karetnikov, has been deported on immigration charges and is said to be the 12th member of the spy ring. Last chance for reporters to overuse Cold War clichés!

More details are emerging about the case of Wikileaker Pvt. Bradley Manning and they are… Gagalicious. Manning's plan to download and leak thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks hinged on lip-syncing to "Telephone".

Looks like our Russian spies are going back home as part of a prisoner exchange. Too bad! They seemed so fun! But why are we trading them for Western spies, when Russia has so much more to offer?

All 10 Russian spies—even the sexy one—pleaded guilty today and will be deported.

The British tabloid News of the World has an interview (link NSFW) with the ex-husband of hottie Russian spy Anna Chapman. Also, what appear to be naked pictures, complete with spy boobs.

Juan Lazaro, one of the alleged Russian spies arrested earlier this week, told feds that he is not actually Uruguayan; not, in fact, named "Juan Lazaro"; and would not betray "the Service," which had, uh, bought him a house. [CNN]