Director, Counterintelligence 

 Office of Protective 

 Services Nov 15 2016 DHS Bulletin In Effect 

NASA CI/CT MONTHLY NEWS UPDATE – December 2016 

This monthly newsletter is published to increase NASA personnel awareness of significant current 

issues related to counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and counterintelligence cyber matters. To 

learn more about CI/CT awareness, or to schedule a CI/CT presentation, please contact the CI 

POC located on the last page. 

Significant Counterterrorism (CT) Issues: 

DECLINE IN TERROR DEATHS OVERSHADOWED BY SPREAD WORLDWIDE 

While military success against ISIS and Boko Haram resulted in fewer 

terrorism-related deaths in Iraq and Nigeria last year, a new report has 

revealed how the groups have spread terror to neighbouring states and 

regions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/fall-in-global-deaths-from-terrorism-overshadowed-by-spreadto-m/

EUROPE'S TOP COP FEARS BLOWBACK FROM ISIS 'SQUEEZE'

As military pressure on ISIS ramps up, foreign fighters who travelled to Syria 

and Iraq in recent years could return home to Western Europe and pose a 

domestic threat, the continent’s top law enforcement official said in an interview 

recently. 

http://abcnews.go.com/International/europes-top-cop-fears-blowback-isis-squeeze/story?id=43613157

US ISSUES EUROPE TRAVEL ALERT AFTER FRANCE FOILS ISIS-LINKED PLOT 

The US State Department issued a travel alert on 21 November, urging 

US nationals to exercise caution at holiday festivals, events and outdoor 

markets in Europe in the coming weeks, a day after French security 

services thwarted an ISIS-linked plot 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/us/us-europe-travel-alert-isis/

Significant Counterintelligence Issues: 

THE SPY WHO ADDED ME ON LINKEDIN

Since the Buryakovs’ arrival in New York in August 2010, they had seemed 

like any other immigrant family in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale. But 

Evgeny was leading a double life. His real employer wasn’t a bank, but 

Russia’s SVR intelligence agency. His task? Extract corporate and financial 

secrets and report them back to Moscow. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/the-spy-who-added-me-on-linkedin

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U.S. WORKER PLEADS GUILTY IN PLOT TO STEAL RICE FOR CHINESE 

A geneticist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture pleaded guilty to making 

false statements to the FBI when questioned about plans to send U.S. rice 

samples to China, the Justice Department said recently. Wengui Yan, 61, of 

Arkansas admitted that a group of Chinese tourists in 2013 told him of their 

plans to steal engineered U.S. rice samples, but he first told investigators he 

had no knowledge of the plan. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-rice-idUSKCN12Q2R8

THE SAGA OF CHINESE SPIES & STOLEN CORN SEEDS: WILL IT STOP SPYING? 

It was a chilly spring day when an Iowa farmer spotted something 

odd in his freshly planted cornfield: a short, bald Asian man on his 

knees, digging up seeds. Not just any seeds — special inbred seeds, 

the product of years of secret research and millions of dollars in 

corporate investment, so confidential that not even the farmer knew 

exactly what he was growing. 

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seeds-economic-espionage-20161031-

story.html?utm_source=360Works%20CloudMail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsWatch

Analyst Notes – Items to Watch:

 As the fight for Mosul rages, ISIS has made significant strides in taking the fight to other 

areas of the globe, planning terrorist attacks on the West. ISIS fighters and sympathizers have 

been arrested in Europe planning extensive attacks against civilian targets in France and 

Germany. With pressure on ISIS rising, Al-Qaeda (AQ) continues to expand its influence, 

strengthen its relationships with terrorist groups such as AQIM, AQAP and Jabhat Fateh AlSham. Russian and Chinese conventional espionage operations continue to target U.S. R&D and 

as well as any physical products that can be stolen. The NASA CI/CT division continues to 

monitor these threats and any others that have the potential to harm NASA or its equities.

NASA CI Offices:

Ames Research Center: 

Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Glenn Research Center: 

Goddard Space Flight Center:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

Johnson Space Center:

Kennedy Space Center:

Langley Research Center:

Marshall Space Flight Center:

NASA Headquarters:

Stennis Space Center:

NASA Headquarters Cyber:

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