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2018-09-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia's military unintelligence - Why the Russian intelligence agencies keep failing abroad

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-22 07:39|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, but you never hear about it when they don't screw up.

Posted by ed in texas 2018-09-22 08:00|| 2018-09-22 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Indeed. Just ask Diane Feinstein. And how many agents in China were allegedly "neutralized" by US agency/politician failures.

Posted by Clem 2018-09-22 08:56|| 2018-09-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ...One would suspect that the problem of telling the boss what he wants to hear or else is still in play there as well...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-09-22 10:18|| 2018-09-22 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe the Russians want people to know they did it so people will know what happens to double agents.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-09-22 11:07|| 2018-09-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course, I wouldn't put anything past MI-5/6.

Posted by DooDahMan 2018-09-22 11:50|| 2018-09-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Hold on a second, we're paralyzed and on the edge of civil war because of a false narrative generated in Russia but we're saying their intelligence agencies are failures?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-22 12:51|| 2018-09-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 For some of us it's clear "our" own "intelligence" agencies are more establishment protection agencies (i.e. youre on your own against islamists terror etc) and hopelessly compromised with dubious staffers and illegality.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-22 16:39|| 2018-09-22 16:39|| Front Page Top

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