The escalating sophistication of Russia’s espionage and increasing threat of home-grown extremism has led British spy agency MI5 to hire hundreds more agents, its chief told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday.
While threats are rising globally, MI5’s Director General Andrew Parker singled out Russia as the most prominent aggressor because of its propaganda, espionage, subversion and cyberattacks. Parker said Russia had intelligence officers on the ground in Britain and was targeting military secrets, industrial projects, economic information and government policy.
“Russia is at work across Europe and in the U.K. today. It is MI5’s job to get in the way …read more
Source: European Voice
