[A-List] Russia: British MI6 Agents Nabbed Running 'Democracy Enhancement' Operations

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From: Rick Rozoff
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:38 AM
Subject: [stopnato] Russia: British MI6 Agents Nabbed Running 'Democracy 
Enhancement' Operations


http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060123/43140921.html


Russian Information Agency (Novosti)
January 23, 2006


British intelligence broke agreement - Russian
security service


-Non-governmental organizations with financing from
other countries are thought to have played a major
role in the "revolutions" that have swept former
Soviet states in recent years, prompting some Russian
politicians to raise concerns that similar activity
was being carried out in Russia.


MOSCOW - Russia's domestic intelligence service
decided to go public with information about Britain's
alleged espionage activity in the country after
British intelligence officers failed to honor a
gentlemen's agreement, a spokesman said Monday.

Colonel Sergei Ignatchenko, the head of public
relations for the Federal Security Service (FSB), said
FSB officers had met with the official representative
of Britain's foreign intelligence service in Moscow
last week and told him that spying against Russia and
financing non-governmental organizations was
"unacceptable."

Ignatchenko said that the official representative of
the Secret Intelligence Service - better known as MI6
- was one of four diplomats involved in the scandal
that broke Sunday night after Russian state television
broadcast a program suggesting British embassy
officials were engaged in espionage in Moscow.

"The secret services have a gentlemen's agreement that
the official SIS representative will not be involved
in espionage," Ignatchenko said. "We see that these
agreements were breached in this case. In essence, we
were deceived. In the near future, we will meet with
SIS representatives to talk about these problems."

He said four employees of the British Embassy in
Moscow had been caught "financing a number of
non-governmental organizations."

"They denied that they were working against us," the
FSB spokesman said. "Only after that did we decide to
make the FSB's information public."

Non-governmental organizations with financing from
other countries are thought to have played a major
role in the "revolutions" that have swept former
Soviet states in recent years, prompting some Russian
politicians to raise concerns that similar activity
was being carried out in Russia. Parliament passed a
bill restricting the operation of NGOs at the end of
last year.






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