General SVR: Russia will accept a response to the expulsion of workers of security services from abroad

Russia will take adequate response measures in case of expulsion of the authorized Russian special services of the Western countries, in the 1st turn from Europe, USA and Canada, said the Director of the Russian Institute for strategic studies (RISS), Lieutenant-General of the foreign intelligence Service (SVR) Leonid Reshetnikov.
" If the West will take coordinated collective opinion on the expulsion of Russian ombudsmen of the special services of their countries, in the opposite direction from Russia will go the entire trains foreign spies and agents, " said Reshetnikov, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". The General also noticed that the number of those expelled from Russia agents will be much more. So Reshetnikov said the text in the French edition of Nouvel Observateur. The high-ranking source in the French secret services told the publication that the Western countries have the opportunity to make a conclusion about the expulsion operating in their territory of employees of the Russian special services in case Moscow will host the conclusion of hostilities in Ukraine. According to sources of the edition, now under the guise of diplomatic missions of Russia in Paris, Marseille, nice and Strasbourg are about fifty employees of the foreign intelligence Service (SVR), the Main intelligence Directorate of the General staff of the Ministry of defence (GRU), the Federal security Service (FSB). Besides, the interlocutors Nouvel Observateur claim that France has from ten up to 2 deep undercover agents SVR, not having an official cover, which enter into France from third countries under false names, and with carefully designed " legend ". In this case the Creator of the publication emphasizes that even more actively in France are Employees of American and Chinese security services. Thus, the well-known French government workers American special services there are about a hundred. Topic peeping us intelligence services for their European partners had already caused several international scandals. First it was claimed that the German authorities have tied 31-year-old worker BND, which has admitted to passing NSA US information about the work of the special Committee of the Bundestag on inquiry of the largest American intelligence agencies in Germany. On 9 July the Prosecutor's office of Germany held in the year Karlsruhe proceedings concerning another suspected in the conduct of intelligence activities in favor of the United States.


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