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The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech ammunition depot in 2014.
In addition, the 18 were accused by the Prague authorities of being secret agents also involved in the explosion. The Russian diplomats were kicked out with the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis claiming that there is âa reasonable suspicionâ that Russian military intelligence officers were involved in the explosion at the town of Vrbetice which killed two Czech nationals.
In fact, the accusation that Russian spies were suddenly under âreasonable suspicionâ for an explosion in 2014 is, as the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out, groundless and absurd especially as the Czech government has previously blamed not Russian spies but the company that owned the warehouses where the munitions were stored.
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Foreign spies have used social media platforms like LinkedIn to target 10,000 officials in the UK and abroad who have access to sensitive information and locations, the head of MI5 warns today.
Ken McCallum said that fake accounts were being used on an industrial scale in an attempt to steal state secrets.
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), which is part of MI5, said that the 10,000 figure, which covers the past five years, was likely to be a conservative estimate.
Targets include people working in defence and security sectors, civil servants, pharmaceuticals and other sensitive industries.
The CPNI is running a think before you link campaign aimed at people working in these areas.