Armed and very sloppy

The series about the adventures of secret agents of the Main Directorate of the General Staff (until 2010 known as GRU) is gaining strength. With a merciless sequence, Western law enforcement agencies and special services issue another strictly dosed portion of information. To see how the suspects will rush about, what stupid reasons they will offer. At the same time, the information reported each time by the special services, like a cobblestone abandoned from the mountain, causes an avalanche of journalistic investigations, which makes a picture of the activities of the Russian military intelligence services (I do not risk calling this intelligence activity) more and more voluminous.

Of the American prosecutors and Dutch military and counterintelligence, the names of several more fighters of the invisible front became known and clearly coordinated and clearly coordinated press conferences. Four of them visited April in the Netherlands in order to install a fake access point in the wireless network of the organization to prohibit chemical weapons (OPCHU) located in the Hague. Just at that moment, the OPCW was busy with the analysis of the data obtained as a result of the poisoning of the Skripals, as well as the study of evidence of chemical attacks in Syria.

Of course, the Russian leadership desperately needed to find out how seriously the poisoners were inherited, whether it was possible to go to customers from these traces. According to Dutch law enforcement officers, the next goal of the Russians was to be the research center in the Swiss city of Spitz, where British data on poisoning in Salisbury were also investigated.

In order to understand the meaning that operations gave in Moscow, we pay attention to the dates. Spy equipment was selected from Russian intelligence officers and expelled from Holland on April 13. And exactly the next day, April 14, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov made sensational revelation. He argued that, according to the data, “confidentially” received from the spitz, the Skripals were poisoned by the BZ chemical, which is not produced in Russia. One can only guess what role the shock group of hackers from the GRU was assigned here.

Indeed, according to the US Ministry of Justice, the same cool guys from military unit 26165 from 2014 to May 2018 not only intervened in the American elections. They organized hacker attacks on anti -doping agencies and organizations in the USA and beyond, in particular WADA (World Anti -Doping Agency), USADA (US Anti -Doping Agency), sports arbitration court (CAS), the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF), FIFA and 34 other organizations. The agents of the GU also hacked the Westinghouse server, which supplied fuel for atomic reactors in Ukraine.

Fighting hackers simply did not know the smoke. So, the detainees in the Hague Alexei Moreene and Evgeny Serebryakov in the summer of 2016 visited Rio de Janeiro, where the summer Olympic Games were held. They managed to get into the ADAMS database owned by the WADA, the American Ministry of Justice claims. Also, Cyberfront’s fighters managed to get into the account of an employee of the American Anti -Doping Agency and receive “compromising” data on permits issued to American athletes to use prohibited drugs.

There is one riddle here. As so sophisticated in computer technology, people managed to inherit this way. The fact that parachutes were not dragged for the "Salisbert" poisoners. These were GRU special forces, that is, saboteurs. They are taught to carry out a combat mission at all costs, not bothering in the consequences. But super-hukers should have understood that modern technologies allow, as they say, to enlighten a person who came into view of the enemy counterintelligence to the skeleton. How could the same marens save a taxi check for a trip from one of the buildings of Gu to Sheremetyev? How can I register three hundred employees of employees at a service address?

Obviously, in recent years, after the Crimean Spring, the country's leadership has been extremely carried away by secret operations, the so -called active events. Military intelligence became an instrument of foreign policy in the broadest sense of such a policy. And no longer understand where GU ends and where Sergey Lavrov begins. It can also be explained how the defense of the state could be connected in the American elections. But games around anti -doping agencies should definitely not have relations to military intelligence.

It can be assumed that this unprecedented extension of tasks led to the expansion of the states. The times when the scouts are a piece of goods, when they were cooked strictly individually, remained in the past. As a result, the Specanov officers who studied at the Military Diplomatic Academy at the Faculty of Military Intelligence ended up in Salisbury. I’m not sure that combat hackers were thoroughly taught the rules of conspiracy. The fatigue of agents should not be discounted, which, as we see, were driven into the tail and in the mane. As a result, modern Russian Stirlitz is armed with the latest computer achievements, but at the same time extremely sloppy ...

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