Media: In GRU they found guilty in failures in Europe

The GRU determined the perpetrators in the last failures of military intelligence in Europe. According to MBH-Media, citing an unnamed source of the Dossier Center, journalist Sergei Kanev, on October 6, a secret meeting was held in the Ministry of Defense, dedicated to unsuccessful operations in Britain, the Netherlands, Montenegro and the United States.

“Among other unflattering assessments were“ dense incompetence ”,“ infinite sloppiness ”,“ morons ”and“ still Budenovka ”were put on by Budenovka.“ Apparently, the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (previously GRU) will have a large cleansing, and some generals will be asked to exit, ”the publication says.

According to the Dossier Center, the Ministry of Defense “went on reinforced rumors” that in mid-September “Colonel General Igor Korobov,“ Head of the GRU, called the GRU chief, and upon returning home, “It became bad” to the carpet. It is claimed that Korobov can soon be fired, and his deputy, a native of Leningrad Sergey Gizunov, is appointed in his place - he is considered a “Putin Watching”, “Putin’s eyes and ears in military intelligence”.

The four agents of the GRU detained in the Netherlands, who were about to arrange a cyber attack to organize chemical weapons and steal the case file about the destruction of the Malaysian Boeing-777 over the Eastern Ukraine, was initially monitored by the counterintelligence of the Netherlands. The publication says that counterintelligence was listened to the phone of the second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Amsterdam Konstantin Bakhtin, who constantly called up with the headquarters of the GRU in Moscow and discussed the details of the operation. Bakhtina, stated, will be withdrawn to Moscow in the near future and "perhaps they will remove not only epaulets." Bakhtin, a graduate of the 1st faculty (strategic intelligence) of the Military Diplomatic Academy (VDA, departmental university of GRU), worked for a special service under diplomatic cover.

According to the Dossier Center, a participant in the poisoning of the ex-employee of the GRU, Military Intelligence Colonel Anatoly Chepiga and Bakhtin, while studying at the special services Academy, lived in the same hostel, "were friends of families and celebrated holidays together."

Dossier also gives details about Russian spies detained in the Hague: Alexei Minin, whom the Dutch Ministry of Defense considers the Hacker support group, led the entire four detainees, Hacker Yevgeny Serebryakov served in military unit No. 26165, located in Moscow on Komsomolsky Prospekt, and the other support participant, Oleg Sotnikov, entered the service in the service in the service in the service in the service in the service in the service GRU after the end of the departmental academy. The fourth member of the group was Hacker Alexei Moreene.

On Monday , the Netherlands Ambassador to Russia Rene Johns Bos called the Russian Foreign Ministry - as the department said, in connection with the “campaigning misinformation arranged in the Hague” around the arrest of GRU agents. The diplomat after a visit to the Foreign Ministry said that the Netherlands "are responsible for international organizations on their territory" and "cannot come to terms" with cyber attacks. In turn, the head of the Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, accused Amsterdam of imprising evidence of the guilt of the Russians - he called them "specialists" who made a "routine trip". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assures that the technique seized by the Netherlands by the Netherlands was intended for "testing information systems of embassies."

Four GRU agents - hackers Alexei Morence and Evgeny Serebryakov, as well as members of the support group of Oleg Sotnikov and Alexei Minin - were detained in the Hague on April 13 and deported from the Netherlands on the same day. They arrived in the Hague, where the GRU headquarters is located, on April 10, and from there intended to go to the Swiss Bern. In Switzerland, they wanted to arrange a cyber attack at the laboratory of radiological and chemical-radio analysis in the city of Spitz, which the OPCO attracted to the investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands reported on the operation to capture the GRU agents on October 4.

The Swiss media also reported with reference to Bern prosecutor’s office about the involvement of two of the four detainees in the Netherlands in the Kiberatak at the Gaga Bureau of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) - a criminal investigation against them has been conducted in the country since March 2017.

The spies detained in the Hague also appear on the list of seven GRU employees, which on October 4, the US Ministry of Justice charged with cyber ends in absentia .

One part of the episodes interested in the American investigation is associated with the State Doping Program of Russia. The agents were imputed by cyber attacks on WADA, a sports arbitration court, the American anti -doping agency, the Canadian Center for Sports Ethics and the International Association of athletics Federations (IAAF). An attack on the International Football Federation (FIFA) adjoins the same group.

The second group of episodes is the attacks on the OPCU and the laboratory in Spitz. The same group includes a cyber attack on Westinghouse Electric Corporation - a company from Pennsylvania, which works in the field of nuclear energy.