СВР vs ГРУ - Великобритания
Служба внешней разведки (СВР) России пытается создать в Великобритании новую шпионскую сеть после того, как сотрудники Главного разведывательного управления (ГРУ) Генштаба были выдворены из-за дела об отравлении Скрипалей. При этом Лондон считает СВР опаснее и профессиональнее ГРУ.
Власти королевства все более обеспокоены попытками СВР вернуть российской разведке плацдарм на территории страны. Ведомство, которое газета называет эквивалентом МИ-6, получило от Кремля задание возобновить операции в Британии. Работа ГРУ, которое Лондон считает организатором покушения на Сергея Скрипаля с помощью боевого отравляющего вещества «Новичок», была успешно нейтрализована. Однако британские спецслужбы полагают, что СВР является гораздо более профессиональной и опасной организацией и представляет большую угрозу.
«Мы больше боимся того, что мы не знаем о СВР, по сравнению с тем, что мы знаем о ГРУ, - заявил высокопоставленный источник в британском правительстве. - Если Москва даст СВР больше ресурсов и свободы действий в Соединенном Королевстве (что, мы полагаем, и происходит), то это вызывает гораздо большее беспокойство, поскольку это более профессиональная организация».
Другой собеседник издания отметил, что сеть ГРУ в Британии была разрушена, и российским разведчикам понадобятся годы, чтобы перегруппироваться. После атаки в Солсбери Британия выслала 23 российских дипломата. Власти уверены, что все они были агентами ГРУ и СВР.
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Moscow spinning new web of spies in Britain after UK 'dismantles' unit behind Salisbury attack
Russia’s foreign intelligence service is trying to set up a new spy network in Britain after the military unit behind the Salisbury nerve agent attack was dismantled in the UK, according to well placed sources.
Authorities are increasingly concerned by attempts by the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, to re-establish a foothold in Britain. Officials are confident that the GRU, the agency responsible for the attempted assassination of Colonel Sergei Skripal, has been effectively neutralised.
That follows a detailed counter-terrorism and intelligence-led investigation into the use of weapons grade, Novichok nerve agent that exposed the GRU’s network of agents in the UK and across Europe.
But it is now understood that the SVR - equivalent to Britain’s MI6 - has been tasked by the Kremlin with resuming operations in Britain.
The view among British intelligence officials is the SVR is a more professional and dangerous outfit than the GRU and poses a bigger threat.
A senior Government source said: “We are more fearful of what we don’t know about the SVR compared to all the things we do know about the GRU.
"If Moscow is now giving more resources to the SVR and more freedom to operate in the UK - which is what we believe is happening - than that is of far greater concern because they are a more professional outfit.”
A second source said: “The GRU has been severely impacted by our inquiries into Salisbury” while another said it had been dismantled and would take years to regroup.
Theresa May pledged to “dismantle” the GRU’s networks when she sensationally unmasked the organisation as being behind the nerve agent attack in a statement to parliament in September. There is confidence that the pledge has been met. British authorities believe they know “everything worth knowing” about the assassination attempt, including the chain of command right up to Vladimir Putin.
The mass expulsion of spies from the Russian embassies in Europe and the US has also played a huge role in disrupting Russia’s intelligence network abroad.
The UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats and the US expelled 60 more in retaliation for the nerve agent attack in March last year.
British officials are confident that the 23 diplomats were all spies, made up of a mixture of GRU and SVR agents and that in doing so they had unpicked the Kremlin’s spying operations in the UK.
A House of Commons briefing paper on Russian intelligence services published at the end of October suggested more than 100 SVR agents had been operating in the US “after a significant ramping up of espionage operations”.
It also repeated a claim that the SVR could have been behind the death of Gareth Williams, 32, a GCHQ and MI6 spy, who was found dead inside a bag locked from the outside at a flat in central London.
The reports claimed Williams “had been killed by SVR agents because he knew the identity of a Russian mole in GCHQ,” stated the parliamentary briefing paper.
The SVR is engaged in “political intelligence, scientific and technical intelligence (industrial espionage) and illegal intelligence,” according to the parliamentary report.
After the Salisbury attack Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the SVR, claimed the poisoning was a " grotesque provocation rudely staged by the British and US intelligence agencies."
Anna Chapman, a Russian-born spy who married a British man and lived in London, was part of an SVR espionage cell unmasked in the US in 2010.
Ms Chapman was involved in the swap that included Sergei Skripal, a colonel in GRU who sold secrets to MI6. Skripal moved to Salisbury in the 2010 spy swap to be closer to his MI6 handler but is thought to have been targeted on the orders of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, amid claims he had carried on working for foreign intelligence agencies.
Col Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the assassination attempt but a British woman Dawn Sturgess died after inadvertently spraying herself with nerve agent, disguised in a perfume bottle and which had been discarded by the GRU assassins.
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Власти королевства все более обеспокоены попытками СВР вернуть российской разведке плацдарм на территории страны. Ведомство, которое газета называет эквивалентом МИ-6, получило от Кремля задание возобновить операции в Британии. Работа ГРУ, которое Лондон считает организатором покушения на Сергея Скрипаля с помощью боевого отравляющего вещества «Новичок», была успешно нейтрализована. Однако британские спецслужбы полагают, что СВР является гораздо более профессиональной и опасной организацией и представляет большую угрозу.
«Мы больше боимся того, что мы не знаем о СВР, по сравнению с тем, что мы знаем о ГРУ, - заявил высокопоставленный источник в британском правительстве. - Если Москва даст СВР больше ресурсов и свободы действий в Соединенном Королевстве (что, мы полагаем, и происходит), то это вызывает гораздо большее беспокойство, поскольку это более профессиональная организация».
Другой собеседник издания отметил, что сеть ГРУ в Британии была разрушена, и российским разведчикам понадобятся годы, чтобы перегруппироваться. После атаки в Солсбери Британия выслала 23 российских дипломата. Власти уверены, что все они были агентами ГРУ и СВР.
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Moscow spinning new web of spies in Britain after UK 'dismantles' unit behind Salisbury attack
Russia’s foreign intelligence service is trying to set up a new spy network in Britain after the military unit behind the Salisbury nerve agent attack was dismantled in the UK, according to well placed sources.
Authorities are increasingly concerned by attempts by the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, to re-establish a foothold in Britain. Officials are confident that the GRU, the agency responsible for the attempted assassination of Colonel Sergei Skripal, has been effectively neutralised.
That follows a detailed counter-terrorism and intelligence-led investigation into the use of weapons grade, Novichok nerve agent that exposed the GRU’s network of agents in the UK and across Europe.
But it is now understood that the SVR - equivalent to Britain’s MI6 - has been tasked by the Kremlin with resuming operations in Britain.
The view among British intelligence officials is the SVR is a more professional and dangerous outfit than the GRU and poses a bigger threat.
A senior Government source said: “We are more fearful of what we don’t know about the SVR compared to all the things we do know about the GRU.
"If Moscow is now giving more resources to the SVR and more freedom to operate in the UK - which is what we believe is happening - than that is of far greater concern because they are a more professional outfit.”
A second source said: “The GRU has been severely impacted by our inquiries into Salisbury” while another said it had been dismantled and would take years to regroup.
Theresa May pledged to “dismantle” the GRU’s networks when she sensationally unmasked the organisation as being behind the nerve agent attack in a statement to parliament in September. There is confidence that the pledge has been met. British authorities believe they know “everything worth knowing” about the assassination attempt, including the chain of command right up to Vladimir Putin.
The mass expulsion of spies from the Russian embassies in Europe and the US has also played a huge role in disrupting Russia’s intelligence network abroad.
The UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats and the US expelled 60 more in retaliation for the nerve agent attack in March last year.
British officials are confident that the 23 diplomats were all spies, made up of a mixture of GRU and SVR agents and that in doing so they had unpicked the Kremlin’s spying operations in the UK.
A House of Commons briefing paper on Russian intelligence services published at the end of October suggested more than 100 SVR agents had been operating in the US “after a significant ramping up of espionage operations”.
It also repeated a claim that the SVR could have been behind the death of Gareth Williams, 32, a GCHQ and MI6 spy, who was found dead inside a bag locked from the outside at a flat in central London.
The reports claimed Williams “had been killed by SVR agents because he knew the identity of a Russian mole in GCHQ,” stated the parliamentary briefing paper.
The SVR is engaged in “political intelligence, scientific and technical intelligence (industrial espionage) and illegal intelligence,” according to the parliamentary report.
After the Salisbury attack Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the SVR, claimed the poisoning was a " grotesque provocation rudely staged by the British and US intelligence agencies."
Anna Chapman, a Russian-born spy who married a British man and lived in London, was part of an SVR espionage cell unmasked in the US in 2010.
Ms Chapman was involved in the swap that included Sergei Skripal, a colonel in GRU who sold secrets to MI6. Skripal moved to Salisbury in the 2010 spy swap to be closer to his MI6 handler but is thought to have been targeted on the orders of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, amid claims he had carried on working for foreign intelligence agencies.
Col Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the assassination attempt but a British woman Dawn Sturgess died after inadvertently spraying herself with nerve agent, disguised in a perfume bottle and which had been discarded by the GRU assassins.
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