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Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review AIA FSB Director: terrorists seek nuclear weapons in Russia Nikolai Patrushev Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Nikolai Patrushev, who is also chairman of the National Antiterrorist Committee, speaking at today’s session of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, said terrorists were trying to get hold of nuclear weapons in Russia. The powerful FSB leader confirmed that the National Counter-Terrorism Committee has credible information on the issue, news agency RIA Novosti reports. According to the agency, the intelligence information stems from the Russian FSB, as well as from foreign intelligence partners. Organized terrorist groups...

THE NUMBER TWO PERSON IN AL QAEDA, AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI, IS AN OLD AGENT OF THE FSB (KGB). AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI, IN 1998, WAS IN THE TERRITORY OF DAGESTAN, WHERE FOR HALF A YEAR HE RECEIVED SPECIAL TRAINING AT ONE OF THE EDUCATIONAL BASES OF THE FSB. AFTER THIS TRAINING HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO AFGHANISTAN, HE PENETRATED THE MILIEU OF BIN LADEN AND SOON BECAME HIS ASSISTANT IN AL QAEDA. TOP OFFICIALS FROM THE UFSB OF DAGESTAN, WHO HAD DIRECTLY WORKED WITH AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI WERE CALLED TO MOSCOW AND RECEIVED HIGH POSTS...

"Operation Bite" : the much-ballyhooed "sneak attack" by US forces on Iran was SUPPOSED to happen yesterday...but didn't. It's beginning to look as if the whole story -including the "high-ranking Russian official" - was an Alex Jones 9/11 "Truther" scam from the get-go ! Could it have been a ploy to raise gold prices ???

A senior Russian journalist who embarrassed the country's powerful military establishment with a series of damaging stories has been found dead outside his flat in mysterious circumstances. The body of Ivan Safronov, the 51-year-old defence correspondent for Russia's progressive Kommersant newspaper, was discovered on Friday. He apparently fell from a fifth-floor window. Although prosecutors say they suspect Mr Safranov committed suicide, colleagues of the dead journalist today insisted that he had no reason to kill himself. He is also the latest in a long line of Russian journalists to have died in unexplained circumstances, they added. "Nobody believes he could...

Who decides when to kill?The technical aspects of extrajudicial retribution had been worked out well in Chechnya. There were thousands of Russian citizens who dissapeared without a trace there - sounds like whole new ways to uphold the law and order have been discovered. An ex-army officer, who had served in Chechnya had told me how people "dissapear", in such a way that neither their relatives nor the law enforcement agencies can find them. The captives are being interrogated under torture, then taken to a remote location, piled into 3-5 men pile and then blown up using a powerfull explosive...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4The security agencies intimidateThe document that was quoted is naturally against the Constitution, the norms of criminal law and any ideas that we may share about a state where extrajudicial punishments are not possible. In any case, this is exactly what the leadership of our country has been saying. But it is quite obvious that inside our country there exists a dedicated system of security agencies aimed exactly at carrying out extrajudicial punishments. But should the quote from an undated and unsigned document be trusted? The person who had leaked the document to...

Litvinenko Shooting Gallery At a Special Forces Training Center The Western media is circulating reports alleging that the Russian Interior Ministry's Vityaz Special Forces use targets featuring a picture of poisoned former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko for shooting practice. The target is visible in the background of a photograph of Russian Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov visiting the Vityaz Training Center near Moscow. The authors of the reports claim that their source was a promotional video about the Russian Special Forces. The scandal exploded on January 25 with the publication of the picture in the well-known Polish newspaper Dziennik, which...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3Do the interests of the state require to kill?There is yet another example. In Kaliningrad a gang was uncovered by RUBOP agents. Apparently behind the gang stood officers from a local FSB branch. One of the gang members whose job was kidnapping and extortion, was an intelligence agent himself. While being videotaped durign his interrogation he confessed to having shot a businessman, well known in the city, using an automatic weapon. He also claimed that he was acting under orders from... the head of the "department of counterterrorism and protection of constitutional order" of the...

Part 1 Part 2Demolition crew from the FSBIn the middle 90's a series of terrorist acts took place in Moscow. The most tragic one was a trolley bus exploding on Strastny Boulevard. Much was being said about a coordinated attack on Moscow (by the Chechens - comm. JadeEmperor). But all of a sudden it was uncovered that the bus was blown up not by the Chechen militants, but... by an ex-KGB colonel. He was found guilty by a trial. Also it was found out that the attempted bombing of a railroad bridge across the Yauza river also was not carried...

Part 1Part 2 The Wetwork SpecialistsThe journalist Dima Holodov was murdered in Vladivostok in 1994 - the same time frame, when the two gangs were uncovered, which had ties to GRU and MVD. An investigation of his murder during the first two month led to those very same two organizations. The suspects were a group of servicemen from the 45-th regimen of the VDV, which belonged to the GRU. During the investigation it was found out that the group supposedly did not report directly to the unit commander. Are such things possible in an ordinary military unit? Of course they...

SPARE ORGANSHow secret services have created parallel structures for carrying out extrajudicial sentences.How murders are carried out in the interests of the state. A secret instruction. After the death of Alexander Litvinenko in London something seemed to change in Russia. Not everyone has formulated exactly what, but everyone has felt on order of their own "gut feelings" something, which makes the insides tense in anticipation of some unknown danger. Although our state has nothing to do with this murder. So say the officials. But somehow we don't believe them. Perhaps, one of the reasons for this is we remember, how...

In an interview with a local newspaper, Georgy Drachev, head of the Pskov Region’s FSB (heir to the KGB's domestic section), accused Protestants of being spies and "destructive" cults, and encouraged citizens to call the FSB with denunciations of their activities. Drachev told the local newspaper Pskovskaya Pravda that foreign religious organizations often "approach families of military personnel, relatives of officials who work for intelligence agencies" and have access to state secrets. "Many of these so-called 'preachers' were trained in camps by Western intelligence agencies," Drachev claimed. He presented an enemies list: "Religious organizations that are represented in the Pskov...

It is not for nothing that Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Republic, is a former member of the KGB. From its earliest days, Soviet Russia maintained a vast army of spies around the world and penetrating the United States remained high on its list of priorities. In 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Robert Hanssen, a FBI special agent who was a Russian spy, judged to be one of the most damaging moles in U.S. history. As Bill Gertz, a Washington Times reporter, notes in his latest book, “Enemies: How America’s Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets—and How...

Four out of five political leaders and state administrators in Russia either have been or still are members of the security services, a study suggests. The unprecedented research implies a huge expansion of KGB-FSB influence in politics and business in recent years. Many of the officials concerned have been appointed under President Vladimir Putin - himself a former spy chief. This has led many liberal commentators to claim their influence is growing unchecked, and threatening democracy. Politics and business This new research was conducted by Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a respected academic, for the Centre for the Study of the Elite, part...

'Walking Dirty Bomb' Tells of London Meetings By Anna Sadovnikova, Hans Hoyng, Thomas Hüetlin and Uwe Klussmann A few days before he was put in quarantine in a Moscow hospital, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi, believed to be one of Scotland Yard's main suspects in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, spoke to DER SPIEGEL about his meetings with the former spy. Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi during an interview on Ekho Moskvy radio in Moscow, November 23. Andrei Lugovoi, 40, former KGB agent, currently a kind of mini magnate in the Russian soft drinks industry, is the man British investigators believe left...

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - The ex-wife of a witness in the case of a murdered former Russian security officer, her two children and boyfriend have been hospitalized in Germany with suspected polonium-210 poisoning, the head of the investigation team in Hamburg said Monday. He said a medical examination will show if their organisms contain a dangerous concentration of the radioactive element. Authorities did not identify them by name. Businessman Dmitry Kovtun met with defector Alexander Litvinenko around the time of his poisoning at the beginning of November. Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin's administration and a...

British investigators are now treating the poisoning death of former Federal Security Service agent Alexander Litvinenko as murder. "It is important to stress that we have reached no conclusions as to the means employed, the motive or the identity of those who might be responsible for Mr. Litvinenko's death," Scotland Yard said in a statement.

MOSCOW, December 6, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A team of British investigators today is continuing work on the case of Aleksandr Litvinenko. The former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer died in London last month from poisoning by the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210. Since then, British authorities have literally followed the polonium trail to more than a dozen locations in London, three British Airways jets, and a handful of potential suspects in Moscow.

LONDON: British intelligence services are convinced that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was behind the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko. The FSB orchestrated a "highly sophisticated plot"and was likely to have used some of its former agents to carry out the operation on the streets of London, the Times said on Tuesday. "We know how the FSB operates abroad and, based on the circumstances behind the death of Litvinenko, the FSB has to be the prime suspect,"a source said. The involvement of a former FSB officer made it easier to lure Litvinenko to meetings at various locations and...

Three great new pieces up on Timesonline(UK). Links to eah article provided by the numbers. 1. FORMER bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin was murdered with a poison that produced symptoms remarkably similar to those of Alexander Litvinenko it emerged yesterday, writes Jonathan Calvert. Roman Tsepov died aged 42 in 2004 after suffering severe radiation sickness brought on by a mystery substance he had ingested with food or drink. The case suggests that use of radioactive poisons - similar to the polonium-210 that killed Litvinenko - may be more widespread than previously thought. The nature of the poison is still a...