http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/27/czech-russia-espionage-idINKBN0IG16P20141027(Reuters) - Russia deployed an "extremely high" number of intelligence officers at its Czech embassy last year, the NATO member country's secret service said in an annual report released on Monday.
The reported increase in spying comes as relations between Russia and the West have worsened, culminating in the Ukraine crisis that began a year ago with street demonstrations against pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich.
Czech spy-watchers have long warned about Russian intelligence services activities in the central European country, a member of the European Union, which is popular with Russians who often travel to and buy property in the country.
The Security Information Service (BIS) said Russian and Chinese spies in the Czech Republic work mostly to use politicians or journalists to extend their influence and secure their countries' economic interests.
"Both the Russian and the Chinese embassy employ intelligence officers serving under diplomatic cover. In 2013, the number of such officers at the Russian embassy was extremely high," the BIS report said.
Other intelligence officers travelled to the Czech Republic individually as tourists, experts, academics or businessmen.
My comments:
Funny news. From the series "Snowden revelations" or "about the detention of American spy with false mustache, wig and a map with a compass in Moscow."
For someone write these news?
Did not know people who work at the embassy (American, Russian, Chinese, Guinea-bisayskih)? If not - watch movies about spies.
In the age of globalization, which can be Russian spies?
Exhibition Interpolitex 2014 - Security State (Moscow), showed that despite sanctions, foreign suppliers will not stop working with Russian companies.
What could be Russian spies? If the Russian company Oxygen Software, which develops and sells (in more than 50 countries) spyware program "Forensic", has offices in the US and the UK.
Malicious software can gather information from social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, «Одноклассники» и «В контакте»), obtaining messages, friends’ lists, chat logs, connections, communications, geo data and other information available in user accounts.
Oxygen Forensic Suite leaving no traces and making no modifications to the content of the devices, making it the tool of choice among government and law enforcement agencies, security services and forensic organizations in more than fifty countries.
Addres representative of Russian company Oxygen Forensic
UNITED STATES
Oxygen Forensics, Inc
901 N. Pitt St, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA 22314
+1 (877) 9-OXYGEN
EUROPE & UNITED KINGDOM
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Also, this program can buy anyone. For example, a jealous husband (wife), a rival firm, the raiders to collect information, blackmailers, the list goes on.
In the age of globalization, there is no foreign spies ( maybe except for China).
Spying for profit. Spy raiders, blackmailers, there is industrial espionage.
Industry tacit information thrives with September 11, 2001. Turnover of billions of dollars a year.
Branch nobody regulates.