Posts Tagged
FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service)

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  2019/10/12 - 11:23 • International, Op-ed

  Acquiring agents of influence – major task of Russian spy services, Khmelnytskyi...

  Moscow’s efforts to recruit spies perhaps not surprisingly has always attracted more attention than its work to recruit agents of influence, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says; but there are only a relative handful of the former while there are...

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  2019/06/03 - 21:21 • History, Hybrid War, More

  Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”

  In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the USSR, and Gorbachev’s comeback to Moscow, The New York Times proclaimed that Russians were ready to undertake “a colossal task of...

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  2019/03/23 - 13:10 • International, Op-ed

  Russian secret police declassify century-old documents but then block access to them

  In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced that it is declassifying documents concerning the trial and execution of Admiral Kolchak, the anti-Bolshevik leader in Siberia in...

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  2019/01/29 - 16:46 • International, More

  FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad,...

  The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled” by the special services of the Russian Federation, the FSB at home and the SVR abroad, according to Yehor Bozhok, the head...

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  2018/12/03 - 22:53 • Featured, Hybrid War, International

  “I was told we should work with fascists”: former KGB officer Zhirnov

  Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...

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  2018/11/24 - 13:03 • International, More

  Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and...

  Western media have been fixated on a report that Moscow now has 200 case officers working in London alone and handling 500 agents and as many as 75,000 informants and the suggestion by some Russian emigres that half of all their own number...

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  2018/10/27 - 13:52 • International, More

  Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and...

  The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the dawn of Soviet power, is today the model and prototype for Vladimir Putin’s approach to the Russian Orthodox Church and...

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  2018/10/05 - 19:22 • International, Russian Aggression

  Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov...

  By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with it, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Vladimir Putin not only showed the way in which he views relations among states as the same as...

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  2018/09/23 - 12:30 • International, More, Op-ed

  Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says

  Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group, Igor Eidman says; and once a Kremlin leader demonstrates he is ready to use this technique, the potential hit list...

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  2018/09/03 - 13:03 • International, More

  Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says

  Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network” that the East German intelligence service set up in the West during the Cold War not only to achieve specific foreign...

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