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Richard Moore said Chinese intelligence is running ‘large-scale’ espionage operations against Britain and its allies.

About sort of the whole ukrainian issue. we are under an obligation, right, under one of our treaties that we would protect ukraine. that military aid was withheld during the obama administration. this administration has actually put it forward and now we're all here. what should we know about this and pay attention to? >> first on ukraine, they're under siege from russian aggression, cyber aggression. russia launched military attacks. they annexed to crimia and are mounting specific espionage operations as well. that obviously is of great concern to us. ukraine is on the front lines. we want ...

>> well, you know, the thing, you were an intelligence officer. you know how russian agents operate. you know, they're not giving, you know, information -- it's not just opposition research, as the president says. this can just as easily be disinformation and more than likely is disinformation. and the idea that president trump would want to look at it and maybe act on it anyway, it just seems incredibly i mean naive, corrupt, wrong. >> there is a fundamental difference between the russian intelligence operations back in my day and those today, and it's not the internet. it's not distorted ima...

This can just as easily be disinformation and more than likely is disinformation. and the idea that president trump would want to look at it and maybe act on it anyway, it just seems incredibly i mean naive, corrupt, wrong. >> there is a fundamental difference between the russian intelligence operations back in my day and those today, and it's not the internet. it's not distorted images, et cetera. the difference is, in the past we resisted. and now we have an american president who welcomes russian espionage operations. and that's indeed what they are. so we are gravely and grotesquely threat...

>> the treasury confirmed new sanctions called new horizons that was recruiting. the nation's top spy, the director of national intelligence, dan coats, emphasized how iran, china and russia run their espionage operations and increasingly rely on these cyber capabilities. >> as the world becomes increasingly interconnected, we expect these actors and others to rely more and more on cyber capabilities when seeking to gain political economic advantages over the united states and allies and partners. >> officials believe witt is in iran. they say this is sending a strong message to iran even thou...