The espionage technique of the honey trap is as old as the biblical story of Sansom and Delilah. It was the Greek philosopher Aristotle who said that there is “no better means of introduction than a pretty face” and he was right. But the problem for intelligence officers has always …
On 10 July, a former Russian submarine commander, Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was assassinated while he was jogging in a park near the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. Although Rzhitsky had been transferred to a desk job and was no longer an active commander, it is known that vessels under his …
There has been a considerable increase in the number of cyber attacks against Russia in the past eighteen months. Aleksandr Shoitov, the Russian deputy minister for digital affairs, said at the end of June: “The attacks are really getting harder.” He also hinted at the sophistication of the attacks: “Hackers …
Artem Zinchenko was a GRU officer arrested by the Estonian Security Service (KAPO) in January 2017. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He had been living under cover as a businessman running a company named Dana Investments (after his wife). The company designed and sold baby equipment. In …
So, after two years and half a million pounds of taxpayers’ money, the conclusion of the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee is that Russia is a threat to the UK’s national security. Well, shucks! The ISC is supposed to be the watchdog for Britain’s intelligence services. Since its creation in …