Posted on 09/07/2005 5:09:00 AM PDT by Wiz
The Czech Security Information Service (BIS) is facing renewed scrutiny following recent revelations concerning senior intelligence personnel maintaining close ties to the Russian foreign spy service, the SVR.
In mid-August, news broke that three senior BIS officials headed the section responsible for monitoring and uncovering agents working for intelligence services of former Soviet republics, including the Belarusian KGB, the Ukrainian SBU and the Russian SVR. The men were once members of the former Czechoslovakian StB intelligence service. Two of the three men attended special courses in Moscow in 1989 given by what was then the Soviet KGB. This counterintelligence training not only dealt with techniques for uncovering Western agents operating in Communist-era Czechoslovakia, but also included the recruitment of potential intelligence assets from the West to work for the Soviet KGB.
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No surprise for me, from time to time we can hear similar stories in Poland.
I think Russia is still a Communists state simply feigning democracy and althugh the Serbs are fighting the Muslims in the Balkins, I also think the Russians are using the Muslims as surrogates against the West in most areas. Their colluding in the Balkins to determine the outcome would not be a surprise.
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