Over 100 spies uncovered in Russia

[Kshasty]

Source: RIA Novosti

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) indentified more than 100 foreign agents operating in the Novosibirsk Region in 2009, the regional department said on Friday.

The southwestern Siberian region's research institutions and technical enterprises are the focus of foreign special services' interest.

"This year, more than 100 foreigners were revealed who were employed by or belonged to the intelligence apparatus of foreign secret services," the regional branch of the FSB said in a statement on the year's work.


Read more: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091218/157282083.html

[DCKit]

1. And only 1,300 suspected Chinese spys in the DC area. I feel cheated. n/t

[damntexdem]

2. Only 100 found? FSB must do a really lousy job.

Maybe security at state dinners at the WH should be outsourced to them. ;-)

[Posteritatis]

3. What's in that area that would be so interesting? (nt)

[MidwestRick]

4. They can...

see Sarah Palin's house from there.

[superconnected]

5. In America corporate spies are a big problem. Companies bring in foreign labor

and then have their trade secrets stolen. I have a hard time feeling sorry for those companies when I read about it.