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“These are the guys you send in because you want to break stuff,” said Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security services. Here’s a look at the Russian military intelligence unit that has captured the attention of Western intelligence. Evolution of An Intelligence Unit The GRU -- whose official name is the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation -- is not a new entity. It’s been around for decades, operating first in parallel with the KGB a...

Request for order suspending transfer of vaccine appointment data to AWS subsidiary in EU Several applicants (including doctors organisations and a human rights group) recently challenged the storage of vaccine appointment data on a platform hosted in France and Germany by AWS Sarl (based in Luxembourg), which is a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services Inc. (based in the US). They sought an urgent order to suspend the transfer of data from Doctolib (a French company contracted by the French governm...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned various individuals and entities connected to Russia’s technology sector and also expanded sanctions against dealings in Russian sovereign debt. In addition to these immediate actions, President Biden also issued a new Executive Order which will significantly expand OFAC’s authority to impose future sanctions against Russia. Backgro...

URL copied Image Source : ABHAY PARASHAR, INDIA TV The accused has passed information related to details of Indian Army personnel, location of army and BSF posts and bunkers on outposts of India on the Indo-Pak border, Delhi Police informed. A highly motivated and radicalised youth identified as Harpal Singh has been arrested by Delhi Police for passing sensitive information to foreign intelligence. The youth hails from Punjabs Tarn Taran area. The accused has...

US Pulls Back Curtain on Russian Cyber Operations Twitter Get Permission While the Biden administration is betting that the latest round of sanctions against Russia will help deter the countrys cyber operations, several U.S. agencies, including the National Security Agency, used the sanctions announcement as an opportunity to pull back the curtain on the tactics of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service. Russias Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday denied that the country was involved in the...

The report was the latest from Canada’s intelligence community to focus on Russia and China

on social media An officer of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, who is also an attorney-at-law, who was detained by detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) for receiving $100,000 in illegal profit, was suspended from his duties in intelligence agencies, according to an official statement released by the Foreign Intelligence Service on April 7. “The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine assists NABU in the investigation of the involvement of the servic...

Grew up in a communal apartment shared by three families. Served in the KGB as an intelligence officer before becoming involved in politics. Timeline 1975 – Joins the Committee for State Security (KGB). Is on the staff of the First Chief Directorate for Foreign Intelligence for the KGB, and is assigned to shadow foreign visitors. 1984 – Is selected to attend the Red Banner Institute of Intelligence, where he learns German and English. 1985 – Is assigned to counterintelligence duties in D...

summary Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed over time Japanese foreign intelligence is an outlier in many ways. Unlike many states, Japan does not possess a centralized foreign intelligence agency that dispatches agents abroad to engage in espionage. Japan is also notable for civilian control over key capabilities in human and signals intelligence. Japanese Foreign Intelligenc...

Antiwar.com Original On Jan. 12, 2017, former FBI Director James Comey attested to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the now-discredited information from former British spy Christopher Steele regarding Russian collusion had been "verified". Thanks to an FOIA request, we now have documentary evidence showing Comey pressing ahead to validate Steele amid a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of other agency heads. Clearly, the latter were reluctant to push Steele�...