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Sexpionage, Part 2/3: Russian Doll | SVR

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Russian Spy Agencies - The Game Is a Numbers Game

Anna used her night life connections to befriend the manager of a club called bojis, one of the favourite haunts of the young princes harry and william. The game they play is a numbers game, and they can play it for years at a time. It's part of a peculiarly russian system of espionage called active measures. Active measures is working behind the scenes within your enemies society to actually confuse, disrupt, cause problems. And that's why you need lots of agents onthe ground. This is michael smith, a journalist and former military intelligence officer with first hand knowledge orussian tactics.

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