It was a banner year for bad spies. The ideal covert operation, a CIA man once said, remains secret “from conception to eternity.” So too with the ideal spy. The true artists of espionage are those who are never detected or are detected too late to be harmed, humiliated, prosecuted or persecuted. The most famous...
Category: GRU
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Russian Spy Chief Dies: Hacked the 2016 Election and Bungled an Assassination Plot
Perhaps it was true, as Russian Defense Ministry said, that Russian spymaster Igor Korobov died “after a lengthy and grave illness.” Korobov, 63, had served as chief of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate GRU for since 2016. When last seen in public he displayed the fit figure of a career military man. It would be equally accurate...
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Two Russians Arrested for Selling Information that Identified Skripal Poisoning Suspects
A Russian news site is reporting the arrest of two government officials for allegedly selling information that helped link two GRU officers to the poisoning of a turncoat Russian agent in England
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In annual commemoration, Muscovites remember the names of #GreatTerror victims
In Russia the memory of the abuses of the KGB runs deep.
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How Bellingcat and Russia Insider Unmasked a Suspected Assassin
The crowdsourced investigative site Bellingcat and The Insider (in Russian) have beat their legacy competitors on the story of the Skripal assassination suspects.