British spy agency MI5 has hired hundreds of additional agents to prepare the United Kingdom amid a growing threat from Russia, the service’s head told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday.
MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said while government officials have largely focused on the threat of jihadist terrorist attacks, Russia is working covertly to undermine the nation’s stability.
“It is using its whole range of state organs and powers to push its foreign policy abroad in increasingly aggressive ways–involving propaganda, espionage, subversion, and cyber attacks,” Parker told the Guardian. “Russia is at work across Europe and in the U.K. today. …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
