Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

Russia Declassifies Files on Spy Who Worked in UK

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has released previously classified files on a double agent who, under the codename “Britt”, passed secrets to Moscow from inside British intelligence in the 1940s, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday.

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April 3, 2007

Russian Spying in U.S. Back to Cold War Levels

Russia has fully restored its espionage capabilities against the United States after a period of decline following the Cold War, Joel Brenner, the head of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive said on March 29.

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April 1, 2007

FSB Stops Activities of 116 Spies in Russia

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) stopped the activities of 27 intelligence officers in 2006, and 89 agents of foreign secret services, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev said at a meeting with reporters of Russian media on Tuesday.

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December 19, 2006

Russian Spy Suspect Awaits Deportation From Canada

An alleged Russian spy who was ordered deported from Canada more than a week ago is still in the country.

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December 13, 2006

Former Russian Spy Alexander Litvinenko Died

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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko claiming to have been poisoned died, doctors said, three weeks after being mysteriously poisoned in what critics alleged was a Soviet-style sting by Moscow’s secret services, a charge denied by the Kremlin, the AFP news agency reported Friday.

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November 24, 2006

U.S., UK Backed Soviet Entrance into Baltics in 1940s

The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.

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November 23, 2006

Poisoned Russian Spy Suffered Heart Failure

Poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko suffered heart failure overnight and is now on a ventilator, Alexander Goldfarb, a friend of the former KGB spy said Thursday morning.

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Litvinenko’s Italian Contact Denies Role in Poisoning Plot

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Professor Mario Scaramella, 38, who describes himself as a defence consultant, was surrounded by four bodyguards as he arrived for the Rome conference, SkyNews reports. Journalists had been summoned by SMS texts.

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November 22, 2006

Russian Spy Suspect Held in Canada Airport

A suspected Russian spy has been arrested in Montreal as he was about to board a plane to leave the country, the National Post has learned, capping a Canadian counter-intelligence operation that suggests espionage is alive and well long after the Cold War.

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November 16, 2006