It is not known whether this man had intended to spy on Microsoft itself or if his employment at the company was part of his cover. Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking at the Foreign Intelligence Service headquarters in June. Another suspected member of that spy ring - who was deported for immigration violations without being charged with espionage - worked as a software tester for Microsoft. In a major upset for the agency, ten of these spies - including Anna Chapman - were arrested in 2010 by the FBI. Putin’s speech was delivered at the SVR headquarters in Moscow as part of commemorations for the centennial of its “illegals” program, which deploys undeclared intelligence officers abroad living under false identities. “It could just be a factor of they're actually mentioning it now, which is different than us noticing it more now along with everything else that Russia has always been doing, but is now more of a focus of attention.” Difficulties at the SVR I would be surprised if that had ever been de-prioritised in the Russian intelligence services,” said Giles, the author of a forthcoming book titled Russia’s War on Everybody due to be published in November. “As in so many other things, it's Russia reverting to long-standing practice - if of course they had ever abandoned it. National Security Council, provided the translation of Putin’s comments for The Record and said: “Left unstated in this allusion to a bygone era is that in many ways, Moscow is more economically and politically isolated than ever.” Gavin Wilde, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former director for Russia at the U.S. “I think it's another of those ones where we've forgotten just how busy the Russian intelligence services always were during Soviet times doing precisely this, trying to steal technological secrets from the West because they were unable to develop things themselves,” Giles added. Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia Programme, told The Record he would be “startled, alarmed and dismayed” if Western companies “were not already fully on alert” for such espionage. One way or another, they have always tried to contain us,” he added. “In that regard, we all know well that the Soviet Union, and even before it, the country always lived under the conditions of such sanctions. This effort is always acute, particularly now amidst attempts to apply sanctions pressure on Russia,” Putin said in June “As always, one priority area of the SVR’s work is its support of the industrial and technological development of our country the strengthening of our defense potential. These headwinds were referenced in a speech by Putin to the SVR on June 30 when he stressed the role of the spy agency in mitigating sanctions, while avoiding any direct reference to the invasion of Ukraine. It lists a number of acute problems facing Russia’s domestic technology industry, including its dependence on foreign intellectual property its lack of production capacity and Russia being unattractive to investors. The admission about the state of Russia’s microelectronics industry is contained in a new strategic policy document from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, reported Tuesday by Kommersant. President Vladimir Putin has suggested in recent months that the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) should support technological development as the country deals with mounting sanctions. Russia acknowledged this week that parts of its technology industry are dependent on foreign knowledge and lagging competitors by more than a decade, raising concerns that the country’s cyber spies will be used for industrial espionage.Įxperts told The Record that Western companies should be on “full alert” for attacks from Moscow’s intelligence services. Fears grow of Russian spies turning to industrial espionage
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