Washington will check the data on the cooperation of the special services of Russia and Iraq

Washington studies Western media reports on the cooperation of the special services of Russia and Iraq during the period of being in power in this country Saddam Hussein, the US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alexander Vershbou said today.

"We still hope to reach a larger amount of information in the light of messages that appeared in the press in the last weekend," Vershbow told Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow.

The ambassador noted that "representatives of the Russian special services indicated that such their ties with the Iraqi special services really existed, but they were legitimate, and the exchange of information took place on the problems of terrorist threats," Interfax reports.

Data on cooperation between the special services of Russia and Iraq

1. Information about surveillance for Tony Blair

From the destroyed and looted building of the Iraqi Intelligence Department (Muhabarat), secret documents were extracted last week, indicating that on the eve of the war of the special services of Russia and Iraq they cooperated quite closely.

So, the British weekly Sunday Telegraph and the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported documents that are very inconvenient for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The publications reported that from these documents we can conclude that Moscow Baghdad is information about possible “goals” in the West, about the supply of weapons to the country's neighboring Iraq, and the details of the personal conversations of the leaders of the Western countries.

Their documents follow that Russia spied on the prime minister of Great Britain Tony Blair in favor of Saddam Hussein.

On November 27, 2000, according to the report of one Iraqi officer, his Russian colleagues handed over to Iraq a detailed list of people who could fulfill orders to eliminate unwanted persons abroad.

On March 12, 2002, Russia warned colleagues from Iraq that Baghdad’s refusal to fulfill the UN Security Council resolutions would give an occasion to destroy, as the newspaper quoted, “any nuclear weapons”.

In addition, one of the letters contains information that the Russian agent gave Iraq the details of a private conversation between the British and Italian Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, which took place a little over a year ago.

2. Information on the preparation of Moscow agents of Mukhabarata - Iraqi intelligence

Today there have been reports of new documents from the archives of Iraqi intelligence. According to the British The Guardian , in one of the rear rooms a storage of dossier for intelligence officers was found.

Shortly before the UN International Inspectors arrived in Baghdad, Iraqi intelligence agents were ordered to remove all paper and electronic documents from their offices and hide in their home, which contain information about weapons of mass destruction.

Documents testifying to the cooperation of Russian and Iraqi intelligence were at the disposal of the correspondent of the newspaper San Francisco Chronicle Robert Coller. He found in the abandoned building Muhabarat Certificates about the end of the courses in the 'Special Training Center'. Moreover, Iraqi intelligence officers took place in September last year.

Unlike British newspapers, who also exiled to the certificates found, San Francisco Chronicle published the full text of the certificates .

Certificates were in the personal files of several Iraqi agents who were hidden in the cabinet of the electronic observation center located in the four -story mansion of the most privileged area of ​​Baghdad - Mesbach. The personal business of each agent lay in the daddy along with the documents testifying to the career of man in Muhabarat.

Three of the five Iraqi agents were held last year. The 2-week course 'Phototechnics and optical devices' in a special training center in Moscow. And two more agents at the same time studied the course of 'Listening Means'.

One of the officers - Rakkhi Mohamad himself Jasim Al Mansuri, 46 years old, is described as a person associated with the leadership of counterintelligence in the south of the country. Judging by his personal file, he is a native of Basra and entered Muhabarat on May 1, 1981. His 'party position' is designated as a “lieutenant general”. On his certificate, decorated with a double -headed eagle - a symbol of the Russian Federation - and a star resembling the emblem of the Russian foreign intelligence service, a shortened version of the name of this person is indicated. To view photos of the certificate issued to this officer, click on the camera icon in the upper right corner .

According to this certificate, he began to study the 'advanced' course by listening on September 2, 2002 and completed on September 15. “The curriculum is completed successfully,” the certificate says, which shows the signature of the director of the center. The newspaper is not able to determine whether this training center was a government organization or was a private institution, although American analysts argue that it is unlikely that the private center teaches foreign intelligence agents without the permission of the Russian government.

The article was written by two journalists - Robert Collier (from Baghdad) and Bill Welles (from San Francisco). Bill Welles provided these documents with the editors of the AGentura.ru website.

Judging by the picture, the coat of arms on the certificate really resembles the coat of arms of the foreign intelligence service .

Comments SVR

In the SVR, the editorial office with the training center commented quite sparingly to journalists. The head of the Bureau of Public Relations and the Media of the SVR, Boris Labusov, said that Russian intelligence since the beginning of the 90s. He officially maintains contacts with intelligence communities of different countries, including the United States and Great Britain, in order to combat terrorism, drug trafficking and unauthorized spread of weapons of mass destruction. '