Dutch intelligence knew about the presence of Russian spies under the guise of diplomats, but did not respond in any way.
Former employees of the Russian embassy, expelled from the Netherlands in the spring, worked for Russian intelligence and engaged in counter-espionage. About this on Friday, October 14, the publication NOS wrote.
According to the publication, eight of the deported Russians worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and the rest worked for the main directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Ministry of Defense. In the Netherlands, they hold only a formal position.
As established by Western intelligence services, one of the main spies of the Russian Federation in the Netherlands is 52-year-old Sergei Pyatnitsky, who headed the encryption of information at the Russian Embassy.
Other diplomats engaged in espionage or recruited accomplices to Dutch intelligence and counterintelligence.
“Two of them collected information about computer chips for the Russian army,” the report said.
“Dutch intelligence knew about the presence of Russian spies under the guise of diplomats, but it did not react in any way, because it would lead to the expulsion of Dutch diplomats from Russia.
“At least three of them stayed to work at the embassy for tacit contacts between Amsterdam and Moscow,” the publication reported.
It should be noted that earlier the publication Der Spiegel prepared material on how Russian spies monitored the training of Ukrainian fighters in Germany.
In addition, the Russian Federation planned to organize its own spy as an intern at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, but he was caught.
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Source: korrespondent
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