Spy Chief: West Trying To Crumble Russia

Russian Spy Boss Singles Out Britain, Says Agents Working To Weaken Kremlin

(AP) 
Patrushev claimed that British intelligence has relied on people who fled abroad to avoid criminal charges in Russia - an apparent hint at Kremlin critics living in Britain, such as tycoon Boris Berezovsky and Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev. Russia has vainly sought their extradition.

Patrushev also alleged that foreign spies were using non-governmental organizations "both for gathering intelligence information and as an instrument for having a hidden influence over political processes." He pointed at the revolutions that ousted unpopular governments in the former Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Georgia as a product of such activities.

The statement reflected Kremlin concerns over outside influence within Russia amid Western accusations of backsliding on democracy - the fears that prompted the government to tighten restrictions on NGOs.

"There is a danger of foreign NGOs being used to finance activities to undermine Russia," Patrushev said. He claimed that some NGOs were also being used by international terror groups to support militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus.

Patrushev said the CIA and MI6 were actively relying on the special services of Poland, Georgia and the Baltics to spy on Russia.

He said his agency had uncovered 270 foreign intelligence officers and 70 agents they had recruited, including 35 Russian citizens, since 2003.

While fuming at the West, Patrushev said that his agency would continue to cooperate with its Western counterparts in combating international terrorism.

[toolmangler-2009]

Wish I hadn''t sold that bomb shelter once the wall fell. Knew it was to good to be true.

[toolmangler-2009]

Here we go again!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hypnotoad72]

One_American - then why do US corporations offshore jobs to Russia and China? They''re clearly COMMUNIST countries and have been for rather some time; right down to censoring information from their own people?

Wait, they''re multinational corporations and therefore are not relevant to any country''s status?

[grazinggoat]

Everyone is going to operate to the edge of the line of what they can get away with. Trying to decipher this is wasted fruitless energy.
Posted by sillywilly4 at 03:53 PM : Oct 10, 2007

-Willy how about politely knocking on their doors and offer them for commercial and diplomatic exchanges instead of sillily sneaking into their vital space from the backdoor!

-They have changed their stance over many things including hardship and communism and they left them in the back yard. Are we really in this big need to this practice of spying and CRUMBLING the partner who showed us a good will and good faith? Most Americans say we would like to be friendly to other peoples and use diplomatic channels in order to strike deals with them, not by installing missile systems at the doors of Russia....

-Just wondering who is deciding of this whole sh*t-stirring in the administration... He (she) ought to be accountable, personally! You know, back yards are never too far!

[grazinggoat]

Way to go Walking-Liar. All this *** stirring in the world and in the existing systems gives nothing by bad smell, a nauseating one. Because of your idiot approach to the Middle East and one-sided support to Israel and Israelis'' way of work, will blow off the relations with Russia and soon with Turkey our most solid ally in the Middle-East.

Pushing too much on established population systems will inevitably result in blood baths and more sufferings to Humans. Walking-Liar, you and your administration are better revise all the strategies in the Middle-East, because Turkey will never accept this state of things and shall go hand-in-hand with Iran to kick our nicely refined butts out of that region.

[oscarez]

"liberalism is dying" You wish. liberalism is on the rise in every country except the U.S.A. George W. Bush and the GOP have been trying for six years to kill it. But that is just about to come to an end.

[sevenveils]

Paranoia is at the seat of all tyranny. Tyranny knows no boarders, religion or government. All can be infected by it.

[one_american]

Communism, along with socialism and liberalism is dying.

It is about time.

[hypnotoad72]

With all the mumblings of offshoring to Russia I''ve heard about (http://www.oobp.org and http://www.outsourcing-russia.com ), if Russia is so scared of the West, would they stop taking jobs that originated from the West?

[prinzowhales]

I hope that Russia has the legal mechanisms in place for Iraq--and Iran, if attacked--to entertain suits for damages and reparations from the property of American, British and Israeli assets in the CIS if Iran is attacked. This will affect the primary supporters of the war against Iraq and who are calling for war against Iran....it would be just deserts, well served.

Bush has done everything short of directly attacking Russia to increase tensions and justify new military appropriations for the financial gain of his ''base'' the super-rich owners of the military-industrial complex.

[neoconrcrazy]

Somebody out there in la-la land tell me how you personally have had your rights destroyed.
USA1st

well, a friend in San Franciso called her friend (an american) living in Belgrade, Serbia, talking about weather, travel, etc. The woman in San Francisco suddenly couldn''t call out of the country. She checked with the telephone company who told her line was blocked. She asked why. No reason given. She got a lawyer and an answer: National security! Luckily she got money and is now going through the courts!!!

And that, my friend, is only one true story.

[theusa1st]

Those freedoms are in dire jeopardy because of your ignorant or unthinking support for Bush. While ignorance can be cured by education, blindness seems a matter of basic honesty.

Posted by alphaa10 at 11:28 AM : Oct 10, 2007

Somebody out there in la-la land tell me how you personally have had your rights destroyed. As far as the honesty part...I think you need to look at Media Matters, MoveOn.org and the Daily Kos for the biggest bunch of lies ever put in print...or do you believe their lies and therefore are so paranoid. The reason Bush hasn''t been impeached is because he has not done an impeachable offense. I do not agree with everything the right says are does, I don''t vote along party lines, I vote for the best candidate. But over and over again the biggest group of people misrepresenting the facts and telling outright lies with hate filled speech is the far left.

[alphaa10-2009]

Apparently, superchez hasn''t read the news for years-- "The two greatest nations on the planet are the US and Britian. We are the greatest not becuase of military might, but because of our freedoms..."
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Those freedoms are in dire jeopardy because of your ignorant or unthinking support for Bush. While ignorance can be cured by education, blindness seems a matter of basic honesty.

See comment below on Bush''s wild misconceptions about presidenial authority, a naked grab for executive power he calls the "unitary executive". Bush has put these claims into impeachable practice.

As if Bush could not alienate enough Americans in and out of his own party, most Brits (whom you credit with great understanding of freedom) regard him as a dangerous fool, and Blair, his inept accomplice.

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush said Putin was a man he understood and could work with. Now we know why-- both are dictators of the same stripe.

Consider the following thoroughly unconstitutional Bush claims for a "unitary exective"-- (1) continued NSA spying on Americans, with token nod to a FISA court only after a certain period has elapsed (2) use of "signing statements" saying Bush will continue to ignore any law he pleases (3) suspension of habeas corpus-- a basic right-- upon Bush declaring anybody (including an American citizen) an "enemy combatant", adenying him legal counsel and judicial review of the case, even subjecting him to indefinite imprisonment and any torture deemed warranted (4) defiance of congress in its legislative oversight of the executive-- Bush telling his staffers and appointees to avoid exposure of illegal activity by stonewalling subpoenas, or claiming amnesia when questioned by congress (5) use of "national security letters" to bypass American courts and spy on political groups in this country directly, using the FBI (6) bogus claims about jeopardizing "state secrets" when any court attempts to try lawsuits on their merits.

[neoconrcrazy]

v-1618 let me guess your a muslim. Posted by superchez1

LET ME GUESS! YOU''RE A RACIST IDIOT ?

Comments like yours make us ashamed to be on this site. Why don''t YOU leave and find kindred racist souls - move to Texas, if you aren''t already there ******.

[v_1618]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-fD78zyvI

[v_1618]

THE U.S. AND BRITAIN WANTS TO CRUMBLE NOT ONLY RUSSIA AND IRAN AND IRAN , THE U.S. AND BRITAIN WANTS TO CRUBLE ALL THE WORLD IN LATIN AMERICA WITH THE TRICKY TRADE IN AFRICA IN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST .. THE U.S. AND BRITAIN GOVERMENT ARE VERY DANGEROUS LUNATICS OVER ALL THE WORLD...

[missingamerica]

With America''''s lunatics of the disloyal majority dems cuddling up to terrorist financiers and refusing to call Russian, Chinese, and now Burma murderers just what they are...

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Posted by delfmast at 08:28 AM : Oct 10, 2007

Ummmm...that is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many, many American Businesses doing the "cuddling up", delfmast.

People who are, by a great majority, Republicans.

[neoconrcrazy]

There may be those in the UK &US who feel Russia is ripe for the picking - but they''re wrong. They are guided, again wrongly, but commonly, by their very un-christian coveting of that country''s natural resources. Putin has made it public that he will not tolerate a wholesale takeover of the Russian energy sector - with reason.

Do not let Russia''s relative decline since the Soviet days mislead anyone; inside the Russian soul (not the one bushit purportedly saw) lives the strongest nationalist feelings.

It would be at our risk and peril to antagonize them.

Putting it simply in an american way: DONT TREAD ON ME

[gkc99]

"Since the times of Elizabeth I, (MI6) agents have been guided by the principle of the ways justifying the means. Money, bribery, blackmail, exemption from punishment for crimes committed are their main recruitment methods."


It''s not called "perfidious Albion" for nothing! The agents of the theocratic state of the UK has ever meddled in the internal affairs of other states--a hankering for the lost days of Empire. Now they''re whining about the Russians playing the same game. If the Brits hadn''ts suckered us into installing the Shah on the throne of Iran (there''s "democracy" in action, Brit style, for you), we''d be in a lot better place in the Middle East right now.

In their longing for the days they ruled the world, the Brits have lured the US into more than one misadventure with poor consequences. Time to rethink the blind obediance by the US to the snap of the Brit fingers.