Carry on spying: Russian agents flood UK in revival of intelligence Cold W

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Independent
By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent
26 October 2004


Russia has resumed Cold War levels of spying and intelligence gathering in Britain, senior Whitehall and security sources have told The Independent.

Among the spies are at least 32 Russian diplomats who are attempting to obtain secret information about the United Kingdom's military, technical and political capabilities, according to authoritative sources.

The spy network is also collecting information about opponents and critics of Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and a former KGB officer, who are exiles in Britain.

A Whitehall source said: "The level of espionage by the Russians in the UK is back to Cold War levels: it is business as usual for the spies."

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Given the intense and unresolved Cold War deep penetration of US and UK public life by official as well as unofficial Russian personnel that has still not been resolved, this latest scenario is laughable.