Jun 29 2010
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service
Robert Coalson, one of bloggers over at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s Power Vertical, has an excellent sense of timing. Just this week, he pointed his readers to the Czech domestic counter-intelligence service’s report on strong and ongoing Russian efforts to recruit agents and gather scientific and technical intelligence. While it notes a substantial number of intelligence operatives working using diplomatic cover, it also points out that “In the past, activities of Russian intelligence services were by no means limited to those of the abovementioned legal residents. In the opinion of the Security Information Service, Russian intelligence services have in some cases smoothly picked up where their Soviet predecessors left off.”
And now the issue is hitting much closer to home. More commentary on THAT coming soon.
And neither the Czech nor the US intelligence services are spying on Russia?
How I ‘like’ this (typical American?) bigotry.
To the best of my knowledge, none of my postings have made any claims about Czech or American intelligence activities.
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