Posted on 10/25/2004 8:57:49 PM PDT by ofset
Russian spying back in the Cold From correspondents in London 26oct04
RUSSIAN spying in Britain is back to Cold War levels, The Independent newspaper in London reported today, quoting government and security sources.
It said 32 Russian diplomats were involved in attempting to obtain secrets about Britain's military, technical and political capabilities, and information about critics of President Vladimir Putin.
"The level of espionage by the Russians in the United Kingdom is back to Cold War levels," a government source was quoted as saying.
"It is business as usual for the spies."
Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5 is responsible for counter-intelligence, and it had warned its political boss, Home Secretary David Blunkett, of growing Russian spy activities, The Independent said.
Quoting unnamed intelligence sources, it said that Russia's spy network in Britain was overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, with about 18 agents claiming diplomatic status in the country.
About 14 agents from Russia's military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, were also posing as diplomats, the newspaper said.
Alex Standish, editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest, told The Independent that there had been a "steady increase" in the number of Russian diplomats posted in Britain.
"If you look at the profile of the individuals, you see a significant proportion of these people are linked to the SVR," he said.
Standish added: "Putin is rapidly building up intelligence systems that have been allowed to fall into decline under the Yeltsin era."
Son of Kavkaz-Center's director shot and in critical condition in Azerbaijan
Appeal by Kavkaz-Center (received through middleman)
We are desperate. If you can please inform local mass-media or anyone who can do it about this message:
On Monday, October 11th, there has been an assault made by unknown criminals on the son of director general of Kavkaz-Center news agency Visami Tutuyev. As a result son of Tutuyev was very badly injured and now is in one of the hospitals of Baku (Azerbaijan) in unconscious state. Medics said that his state of health is critical.
After renewal of website's work Visami Tutuyev himself has got under unexampled psychological pressure from the side of georgian authoritites.
Editorial of "Kavkaz-Center" declares that this terrorist attack against family of Tutuyev has direct connection with the recent threats from Moscow and personally Putin towards chechen representatives abroad.
"Kavkaz-Center" calls upon international human rights and journalistic organizations to interfere without delay in the fate of director general Visami Tutuyev and his family and to protect them.
Putin Takes A Swipe at Britain
President Vladimir Putin called for international solidarity against terrorism today issued thinly veiled criticism of the Britain for granting asylum to Chechen separatist figures.
Receiving credentials from new ambassadors to Russia in a Kremlin ceremony, Putin called for “solidarity in the struggle with international terrorism” and said double standards were unacceptable. “Terrorism can only be fought together,” he said.
After a series of terror attacks in Russia, Putin and other top officials have criticised Western politicians who have called for negotiations with Chechen rebels, and have lashed out at Britain and the United States for granting asylum to rebel envoys.
“It is important not only to neutralise the terrorists themselves – their political lobbyists and ideological inspirers must end up in complete isolation,” Putin said.
Russian authorities have unsuccessfully sought the extradition of two envoys of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov: Ilyas Akhmadov, who was granted asylum in the United States, and Akhmed Zakayev, who has refugee status in Britain.
The Kremlin is angry that Akhmadov and Zakayev have been able to speak out through the media, criticising its policies in Chechnya and the surrounding North Caucasus region, the site of the school raid last month that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children.
Foreign governments have expressed solidarity with Russia over the attack but have emphasised the need for a political settlement in Chechnya, whose rebels are blamed for most terror attacks in Russia.
Putin’s government, which says it is fostering a political process in Chechnya alongside its efforts to eradicate the rebels, is sensitive about any criticism of its policies and about advice from abroad, saying the situation in Chechnya is an internal matter.
Putin called for nations to take action against terrorism, saying “historical experience shows that nobody can safely sit it out in the trenches.” He added that “attempts to flirt with terrorists are unacceptable.”
Russian tourists arranged a meeting against Zakayev in London
About 70 Russian tourists, joined by several Indians and Israelis, held a meeting on Sunday on London's Trafalgar Square, which received a noisy designation in the Russian media as an "international anti-terrorist meeting". The gathering held posters, downcast in the rain, demanding the "extradition of Zakayev", and the orators made accusatory speeches.
However, only the Russian tourists mentioned Zakayev. The Israeli and Indian speakers were more interested in Palestinian "Hamas" and Sri Lankan "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam". All together denounced the IRA, apparently in order to cause sympathy in passing-by Englishmen. After rallying a little on the square, they quickly dispersed to their tourist matters, and one could notice that the Russian orators directed their feet toward the embassy of the RF. The policemen followed them too, and got completely soaked without umbrellas.
That is why Iran put the bounty on Putin's head.
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UK needs to clean house as they have one of the worst muslim inroading in the world. Which seems to have led the chechens there to spend time with their buddies.
Actually it looks like Russia may help them to clean up their islamic mess.
There are a few more. It's the John Birch FR club. Coming in, being banned and sent on, and getting new names and returning.
What do you expect Russia to do after Beslan? Nato is supporting the KLA and other Islamic terrorists in the region. The Chechens have ties to the KLA and they are both tied to the same Islamic terrorists in Aghanistan, Iranm and North Africa.
ping if you are interested.....more birchie fun.
On Hannity a few nights ago a popular liberal was interviewed who is pro-Bush, because of terrorism. He said we need to deal with terrorists first, then sort out domestic policy, and he is voting for Bush because of it.
In the conversation he suddenly said "Vladimir Putin knows what is going on".
Statements like the one above are why we are hearing more and more of this kind of thing.
Boris Berezovksy, 57, helped popularize the term "oligarch" and is perhaps the most controversial of the group. Born in Moscow in 1946, Berezovsky was the only child of a factory builder and a pediatric nurse. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics and physics and landed his first research position at the prestigious Institute of Control Sciences. Berezovsky, by his own admission, wasn't a brilliant scientist, but he was an ambitious and skilled networker, constantly giving speeches and organizing seminars and trips abroad. He began in business selling and importing computer software, then cars. Berezovsky made his first millions from assets of state auto manufacturer Avtovaz. Later, he took over the management of the Russian airline Aeroflot, the oil company Sibneft, much of Russia's aluminum industry, and ORT, the state's largest and most influential television network. Through his close relationship with the longtime chief of staff to Boris Yeltsin, Berezovsky became part of the former president's inner circle. In 1996, he led Russia's most powerful tycoons to back Yeltsin's reelection. Yeltsin appointed Berezovsky deputy secretary of the National Security Council, then secretary of the Organization for Coordinating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS.) In 1999, he won a seat in the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament), but six months later, amid unrelenting pressure from the new regime of President Vladimir Putin, Berezovksy resigned and soon fled Russia. The Russian Prosecutor General's office charged Berezovsky in absentia with complicity to fraud, complicity not to return hard currency from abroad, and money laundering. He now lives in self-imposed exile in France and Britain. In March, Berezovsky was arrested on a warrant alleging that he defrauded the Russian region of Samara of nearly $2 billion in 1994 and 1995. After the arrest, a London court granted Berezovsky political asylum, protecting him from extradition.
September 22, 2004
"Sydoruk also said an international warrant had been issued for Berezovsky over the new charges and described the magnate, who was granted asylum in Britain where he now lives, as "hiding from justice outside Russia."
Berezovsky, a billionaire who made his fortune through shadowy deals in Russia in the 1990s, was already wanted by Russian authorities on fraud charges.
In 1996, a controversial Forbes magazine article dubbed Berezovsky "Godfather of the Kremlin", asserting that the tycoon salted hundreds of millions of dollars out of Russia and had links with the Chechen mafia.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/10/25/berezovskyplot.shtml
Berezovsky Foils $3M Nuclear Suitcase Plot — Sunday Times
The same serious holes exist in the lack of security in the US.
That is why Iran put the bounty on Putin's head.
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That is why Iran put the bounty on Putin's head.
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>>>>. It's the John Birch FR club.
Isn't the John birch group more concentrated on communism? Russia does have a communism movement.
this one
I expect Russia, under Putin, to do whatever is called for when going after the terrorist who were involved with the killing of all the children in the school attack.
NATO - supports radical terrorist -? That is not good news - they already have the UN in their corner -
I agree with another post - England has become a homeland for radical muslims - and as long as that continues - any nation fighting terrorist has a right to keep tabs on them -
just my opinion -
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