Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko gives a press conference in Kiev on March 11, 2014. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images
Ukraine's Top Intelligence Agency Deeply Infiltrated By Russian Spies -- Mashable
KIEV, Ukraine – On a morning earlier this year, Ukraine’s top intelligence officials woke up to discover that the country's spy agency had been ransacked and torched by intruders who seemed to know what they were looking for.
The previous night, it turned out, the country’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, had ordered his operatives to steal a trove of state secrets from Ukraine's Security Service, known as the SBU, before fleeing to Moscow on Feb. 22.
During their raid on the spy agency, the thieves also stole data on more than 22,000 officers and informants as well as anything documenting decades of cooperation between the SBU and its Russian counterpart, the Federal Security Service, or FSB.
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My Comment: This is a huge problem for the Ukraine military and government. Their government/military/intelligence institutions are filled with many who are sympathetic to Russia, to the rebels in the east, and if not that .... hostile towards Ukrainian nationalists. And while the Ukraine government has been purging Ukrainian-Russians from their ministries .... this is only fueling more anger and resentment.
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