Vladimir Sergienko, 52, has been accused of plotting with Moscow to delay the arrival of German tanks in Ukraine. He is a parliamentary aide for the far-Right AfD (Althernative for Germany) party for whom he works as a translator. He is a naturalised German citizen born in Ukraine. He has …
August Hanning and Gerhard Schindler, two former chiefs of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, have publicly criticised their former organisation by claiming that it needs to make considerable improvements if it is to “look Western allied services in the eye again.” They were wrting in Germany’s Bild newspaper. …
On 9 August a civil servant in Germany’s Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia. He worked in procurement and has only been identified as “Thomas H.” He was arrested at his office in the Ministry. German invesitgators say that he approached the Russians rather than …
Widespread television coverage was recently given to Vladimir Putin’s celebration of “Russian Navy Day”. There were all the speeches, parades and razzamatazz that Putin loves. But, behind the scenes, the GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence service, had been busy. Russian marines were pleased to find messages of support on their …
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 …