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-Caveat Lector- 20.12.2005Eurasian Secret Services Daily ReviewAIA staffThe secret services' elite rules Russia?
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Putin: Russia’s Foreign Intelligence is more aimed, onward and effective
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has positively appraised operation of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the country and noted the improved quality of acquired data. “Let me stress it, the country’s authorities highly evaluate operation of the Foreign Intelligence Service. I know that we may rely on your information when making the most vital political decisions and that all orders will be executed accurately and in time,” Russia’s President said yesterday at the meeting dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
He added that the SVR turned to be one of the finest intelligence services in the world, respected by its allies and enemies. He said he is proud that a part of his life is connected with this organization and its brilliant employees, who are excellent professionals, local media reported.
“The quality of data from the SVR has improved materially over the recent years,” Putin specified.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence defends Iranian nuclear program
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is unaware of any attempt by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, the head of the service, Sergey Lebedev, was quoted by the local news agencies as saying.
"We attentively observe what is going on around Iran and report on this to our leadership. We are not indifferent to how events will develop. But at the moment we have no information to suggest Iran is developing nuclear weapons," Lebedev, said. "Accordingly we see no basis for using force against Iran," he added.
To remind, Russia is building Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr and recently agreed to sell Iran 29 TOR M1 mobile surface-to-air missile defense systems.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service claims it captured or killed most of the Al-Qaeda leaders
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service director Sergey Lebedev said the anti-terrorist coalition had captured or killed most of the Al-Qaeda international terrorist network's leaders. "Nearly 70% of Al-Qaeda's highest-ranking members have been captured or killed in the international anti-terrorist campaign that has been in progress since 2001. They include the closest allies of 'Terrorist No. 1:' Abu-Zubaid, Abu-Leits, Sheikh Halid Mohamed, and Abu Faraji al-Libi," Lebedev said in an interview with Interfax ahead of the 85th anniversary of the country's Foreign Intelligence Service. "As for Al-Qaeda representatives who took part in terrorist activities in the North Caucasus, odious figures such as Hattab, Abu al- Walid, Abu Zait and Abu Omar have been eliminated," he said. "The special services of a number of European countries carried out a joint operation in November 2005 to arrest leaders and members of Al- Qaeda's cells in Belgium, France, Italy and other states," he said.
The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia knows about CIA prisons in Romania and Poland
The director of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia General Sergey Lebedev gave an interview to the Rossiiskaya gazeta on the occasion of the 85-years anniversary of the service. In particular, Lebedev declared that SVR does not regard special services of the Baltic countries - NATO's youngest members, as opponents. "Naturally, these countries' special services have intensified cooperation with NATO intelligence structures and have been in close contact with them. But I don't think they pose any serious threat to Russia, even though we know they are working against us," Lebedev said.
Lebedev noted also that the Russian intelligence possess information on confidential prisons of the CIA which ostensibly were located in Poland and Romania. However, the SVR director declared that he is not going to tell something concrete. The assumption that the Russian spies tried to poison a runaway oligarch Berezovsky, Lebedev called a "delirium".
The director of SVR also said he opposes a proposed merger of intelligence and counter-intelligence departments. "In my opinion, the current separation of special services should be preserved. The past 14 years have proved that they are more efficient when working separately. A similar scheme is practiced by leading nations," Lebedev said in an interview for the Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Special services can actively and effectively cooperate despite their departmental affiliation, he said. "The closest possible interaction between the SVR, FSB (Federal Security Service), GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) and FSO (Federal Protection Service) is the guiding principle. No competition," Lebedev said. Speaking about cooperation with CIS special services, he noted that political changes in some CIS member-states "influence our activity in a certain way."
Russian officials concerned with the CIA head's visit to Ukraine.
The US Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss
Despite the official report of the Yushchenko's spokeswoman, Iryna Herashchenko, that the sides discussed global terrorism and regional challenges, the Russian officials consider that there were other issues discussed, connected with the Ukrainian-Russian relations. The meeting came amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas supplies, which could trigger a major instability in the region.Russia has been recently pushing for quadrupling prices of natural gas it supplies to Ukraine starting January 1, 2006, and had even threatened to cut the supplies completely unless Ukraine disagrees. Ukraine refused to accept the new pieces citing a 10-year agreement it signed with Russia three years ago and that had fixed natural gas prices in trade between the two through the end of 2009.
Some officials in Ukraine and Russia fear the dispute could lead to disruptions in Russian natural gas supplies to the European Union next year. The pressure to quadruple the prices has been apparently politically motivated, as Russia had been seeking to punish Ukraine for its pro-Western course, Ukrainian analysts said, Ukrainian Pravda reported. Accordingly there is a certain fear in Moscow that the CIA's head visit may be a part of the American support to the Ukrainian side. Last Saturday Yushchenko warned that Russia's pressure had been threatening the national security of Ukraine and suggested that Kiev may appeal to world's nuclear powers, such as the U.S., Britain, France and China, to fend off the pressure.
The CIA has been carefully watching Russia's expansion in the energy sector of the former Soviet Union, including aggressive acquisitions of key energy sector companies, such as power distribution firms and oil refineries over the past several years.
The CIA expected Russia's efforts to accelerate this year, especially after Yushchenko, a pro-Westerner, had defeated a pro-Kremlin candidate at the presidential election last year and had declared Ukraine's goal to join NATO and the EU. Goss, in a testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in February, mentioned Russia's expansion policy as one of the key challenges to be faced in the region in 2005.
US slams Kremlin’s Bill on secret services control over the NGOs
The US House of Representatives has called for the Russian Parliament bill that would increase government control over nongovernmental organizations to be withdrawn or toned down significantly, The Saint Petersburg Times reported. US representatives passed a nonbinding resolution 405-15, prompting some of the bill’s sponsors in the Russian Parliament to bristle and Russian NGOs to welcome the support. The vote came after President Vladimir Putin, faced with a storm of international and domestic criticism over the legislation, proposed amendments that addressed some of the concerns of international NGOs. The Parliament postponed a crucial second reading of the bill until this Wednesday. Sponsored by Representatives Henry Hyde and Tom Lantos, the US resolution urged the Russian government to withdraw or modify the bill because it “would have the effect of severely restricting the establishment, operations and activities of domestic and foreign” NGOs in Russia, “including imposing unprecedented restraints on foreign assistance,” according to the resolution text posted on the House web site. Russia’s concerns that “foreign interests and intelligence agencies” could use NGOs to undermine the government and national security could “be addressed by more limited and appropriate measures,” the resolution said. Putin, while ordering amendments, defended the bill as necessary for preventing foreign funding of political activity in Russia and for fighting terrorism. The Russian secret services heads supported Putin underlining the need to control the NGOs' activity.
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