US intelligence has concluded that Unit 29155 of the State Directorate of the Russian General Staff was involved in the “destabilization campaign” in Moldova, the poisoning of Bulgarian arms dealer Emelyan Gebrev, the attempted coup in Montenegro and the poisoning of the Skripal family in Salisbury, Britain. This became about...
The director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Ray said on Friday that Moscow's continued interference in the American election process is a serious political threat and a challenge for counterintelligence, writes Voice of America. Citing the presence of Russian intelligence officers in the United States and the history of operations ...
On March 23, Rafael (Rafi) Eitan, the leader of the Israeli spy team that 59 years ago tracked down, identified and arrested the mastermind, or “architect” of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, passed away. The death of 92-year-old Eitan was officially announced by a Tel Aviv hospital, Fox writes...
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service analyzed the Russian military exercises and concluded that Moscow was "preparing for a military conflict" with NATO. It can be provoked by the “color revolution” in Belarus, RBC writes. The only major threat to regional security for Estonia and the other Baltic states ...
US President Donald Trump believed the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who convinced the American leader that the DPRK did not have missiles capable of reaching US territory, and did not believe US intelligence reports that assert the opposite. This was stated in an interview with CBS television by the former ...
On January 29, 2019, the American intelligence community released its latest Worldwide Threat Assessment, which is published annually and is open to public scrutiny. The 42-page document was jointly prepared by 17 US intelligence services, including the CIA, the FBI, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and others. It presents ...
In the archives of the German secret police in Dresden, they found a pass to the Stasi (German Ministry of State Security), which Vladimir Putin used when he was a Soviet agent in the GDR. The Russian president has repeatedly recalled his work in the KGB in Dresden in the 1980s, writes ...
Former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, Britain, in March, has worked in recent years with intelligence officers in Spain, a country fighting the Russian mafia that has settled in its territory. NewsRu writes about this with reference to The New...
There is a word that the Kremlin and all its representatives have loved, which has not yet passed into the American vocabulary, longing for this kind of Russian transplants: “provokatsiya”. Literally: a provocation. Figuratively: false flag operation. Yulia Ioffe in her blog for The New York Times noted that the Kremlin very often uses ...
The Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal secretly collaborated with the Estonian intelligence services and met with representatives of the Czech intelligence. This is reported by the New York Times, citing its own sources. According to them, a few years before the poisoning in March 2018, a former employee ...