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空耳向きかとも思ったが、こちらの方に。イギリスのプロパガンダ記事かもしれないが、こういうものもあるということで。
4月13日付、「ガーディアン」に、冷戦時代と同じくらいのレベルで、ロシアのスパイがロンドンに滞在しているという記事が掲載されている。
「ガーディアン」にイギリスの情報筋が語ったところによると、約30名のロシア人スパイが大使館や貿易関係の職場におり、その他にも水面下でスパイ活動を行っている人達がロンドンにはかなりいるのではないかといっている。
彼らは特にテクノロジーの分野に目を光らせていると同時に、ロンドンのロシア人地区での監視活動を行っているようだとのこと。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2056198,00.html#article_continue
Number of spies in UK returns to cold war levels
Richard Norton-Taylor and Matthew Taylor
Friday April 13, 2007
The Guardian
The number of Russian intelligence agents based in London has reached cold war levels, reflecting the Kremlin's growing interest in London's dissident community, according to British security sources according to the Guardian newspaper.
Counter intelligence officers say there are now 30 agents operating out of the Russian Embassy and trade mission - with the possibility that many more are working undercover for outside agencies across the capital. Sources say the Russians are keeping an eye on technological advances in the UK as well as monitoring senior figures within London's exile community.
The increased intelligence activity has caused some consternation among Russians in London, who fear they are being spied upon. "There was a time in the 1990s when I would call into the Russian embassy for a drink at the bar and just chat to whoever was there - the cultural attache or whoever - and it was all very relaxed and friendly," one well connected exile told the Guardian.
"But now it is back to the Soviet days. The idea of just popping in for a chat is unthinkable, there are many, many more KGB around and I avoid all but absolutely necessary contact and never go the embassy unless I have to."
The figures being targeted by the Russians are thought to include many oligarchs who made good during the chaotic last years of Boris Yeltsin's presidency as well as former members of the Russian security service, the FSB, which succeeded the KGB. Among them is Boris Berezovsky an associate of Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB officer fatally poisoned in London in November. Mr Berezovsky was interviewed by Russian investigators as part of the inquiry into Litvinenko's death.
Security and intelligence officials now assume that he was killed in a plot arranged by current or former members of the FSB, or both. Polonium 210, the substance which eventually killed Litvinenko and, according to security sources, had probably been used before in FSB and KGB-linked assassinations but was undetected.
"Only the state would have access to that material", said one British counter-terrorist official, referring to Russian organisations and laboratories. Whether President Vladimir Putin was aware of the plot will probably never be known, officials say.
In July last year the Duma, the Russian parliament, passed a package of measures allowing the president to task the security services with eliminating "extremists" in Russia or abroad. The definition of "extremism" includes being "libellously critical of the Russian authorities".
Russia's decision to focus its efforts on technology - which is also a top priority for Chinese intelligence officers, officials say, is reflected on MI5's website.
"In the past", it says, "espionage activity was typically directed towards obtaining political and military intelligence. In today's high-tech world, the intelligence requirements of a number of countries now include new communications technologies, IT, genetics, aviation, lasers, optics, electronics and many other fields. Intelligence services are targeting commercial enterprises far more."
But if the emphasis is different, the methods are the same, according to counter-intelligence sources. "They want their targets to get into positions of influence", said one. Agents operating in the UK are not thought to be watching the activities of the dissidents in a purely passive way.
According to British sources they are, in many cases, attempting to gradually draw their targets into an often close and sometimes threatening relationship.
In other cases businessmen and those in the science and technology community who regarded as potentially useful are approached and cultivated, often over a long period of time.
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