Spying in the Cold War Style by Barbora Kasparova

The head of MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), UK's counter-intelligence and internal security agency, Jonathan Evans has openly touched the subject of Russian spies in Britain again in his speech on Monday. This statement only underlines the state of diplomatic relations Russia and United Kingdom are currently in. The officials of security services of both countries claim the same problem. As published on The Guardian website, in October the head of Russian Federal Security Service known as FSB (former KGB) Nikolai Patrushev in his interview for a Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty declared: "Politicians thinking in the categories of the Cold War still retain their influence in a number of western nations." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2188254,00.html) He said that British agents working for MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), which is UK's external security agency, are trying to recruit Russian citizens, and are even responsible for organizing a secret campaign to destabilize Russian government. The current bad diplomatic relations have originated in a Litvinenko case in 2006. Russian former KGB agent and critic of Kremlin's policy had died in London after what proved to be polonium poisoning. British investigators asked Russia to extradict some of the suspects (Andrei Lugovoi), however, Russia strictly refused and the dispute resulted in both countries expelling the other side's diplomats from the country. Now the head of the British MI5 in his Monday statement went as far as blaming Russian spies for distracting UK Intelligence services from the real threats to the country security, as fighting terrorism. Hopefully, MI5 can handle both tasks...

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071105/tpl-uk-britain-security-47c7853_2.html

by Barbora Kasparova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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