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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2018 18:09:36 GMT
VLADIMIR Putin has reportedly ordered an international manhunt for a Russian 'mole' who helped MI5 identify the Novichok assassins.
Kremlin intelligence chiefs were blindsided by Britain identifying Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as GRU officers last month - and believe a traitor was responsible for their unmasking.
A spy source told The Daily Mirror: "Clearly our intelligence agencies have very solid intelligence on these two and it may never publicly be known what it is.
“But Putin has been given a very clear message behind the Prime Minister’s identifying of this pair as GRU - and that is that Britain is also on the offensive and can penetrate his intelligence community.
“They will want desperately to find out how MI5 has been able to assure the Prime Minister these men are GRU with absolute confidence after painstaking intelligence gathering.
“Whatever the information is that they have - it was enough for her confidently to warn that the British government will dismantle their operation.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2018 18:11:55 GMT
The name of the second suspect in the Salisbury case is actually Alexander Mishkin, the BBC understands. The Bellingcat investigative website says the man who travelled under the alias Alexander Petrov is in reality a military doctor working for Russian intelligence, the GRU. Last month, Bellingcat named the first suspect as Anatoliy Chepiga, a claim rejected by Russia. More details about how it uncovered the identity will be released on Tuesday. Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March.
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