FBI Allegedly Looking for Russian Spy Inside NSA
Ian Allen writes on intelNews.org:
American counterintelligence investigators are allegedly trying to uncover at least one Russian-handled double agent operating inside the US National Security Agency (NSA), according to information published on Wednesday in The Washington Times.
The paper based its allegation on an interview with an anonymous “former intelligence official” with close ties to the NSA —America’s largest intelligence agency, which is tasked with worldwide communications surveillance as well as communications security.
The anonymous source told the Times that the probe is directly connected to the arrest of nearly a dozen Russian deep-cover operatives by the FBI last summer. Washington eventually exchanged the Russian spies with several Western-handled Russian operatives captured by Moscow and held in Russian prisons. But the FBI allegedly believes that the deep-cover operatives, most of whom used false identity papers and had lived in the US for years, were primarily tasked with aiding at least one Russian-handled double spy operating inside the NSA’s Forge George F. Meade headquarters, in the US state of Maryland.
The anonymous intelligence source said that, not only the FBI, but the NSA is also “convinced” that “one or more Russian spies” are active inside the Agency, as well as perhaps in other Pentagon-affiliated intelligence agencies, including the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The Times contacted NSA and FBI representatives in connection with the anonymous revelations, but both agencies refused comment.
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posted by Fergie @ 12/02/2010 10:10:00 PM
2 Comments:
I read someone that one of the discovered SVR 'illegals' might have even assisted in deaddrops for Robert Hanssen, prior to his arrest in 2001.
But I bet he was dealing with GRU illegals. So under that theory, NSA might be alleged looking for GRU as opposed to SVR illegals.
But who knows...
The following appears to be the original source of the "6x GRU agents vs SVR" claim that is found in the SVR Wikipedia entry.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090424/121299694.html
4/24/2009
The chief of Russia's military intelligence (GRU), Gen. Valentin Korabelnikov, was relieved of his post after handing in his notice, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
[...]
GRU is Russia's largest intelligence agency. It gathers human intelligence through military attaches and foreign agents. According to some sources, GRU has six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR, which is the KGB's foreign intelligence successor.
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