Condolences to the Russians - Suicide bombers kill 37 in Moscow Subways
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:23:00 -0500, Andrew Chaplin
wrote:
Arved Sandstrom wrote in
news:Bpjsn.538$Z6.368@edtnps82:
Ray OHara wrote:
the KGB routinely made monkey's uncles out of the western intel
agencies. as for the bombers, its the legasy of the Russians taking
over others countries.
KGB success in _obtaining_ intelligence, such as it was, depended
entirely on the willingness of useful traitors. First they were
ideological traitors, then, as people wised up, they became traitors
for money. But the KGB otherwise didn't exactly do anything "better"
than anyone else...they had some real buffoons as agent runners from
time to time. And I said "such as it was" because it transpires that
the ultimate recipient of all this hard-won intelligence, the Soviet
command structure, wasn't very good at interpreting it.
As for Soviet counterintelligence, and the difficulties that caused
Western agencies trying to operate in the fUSSR, well, that's simply
what happens when running a police state. Western counterintelligence
had to be considerably more sophisticated, and was.
An ambitious Soviet attaché made several truly inept runs at my father in
the late 70s. His target likely was not my father (the senior researcher
in the history directorate of DG Exec Sec) but us three kids who were
then starting our careers in the CF. The KGB did not send their "A" team
to Ottawa.
I gues they never was the movie "The President's Analyst," eh?!?!?!
:-)
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