‘The Tower’, a GRU building in Khimki, Moscow. Google Maps
The Guardian: How the GRU spy agency targets the west, from cyberspace to Salisbury
Accusations mount against the Russian army’s main intelligence directorate.
In Russia’s shadow war with the west, one intelligence agency keeps making headlines.
The GRU, or main intelligence directorate, of the Russian army, has been accused of spearheading several of Russia’s most notorious operations in recent years. They include the 2014 seizure of Crimea using undercover soldiers called “little green men”, the hacking theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton, and even the planning of a failed coup in Montenegro.
A British security source told the Guardian on Monday that the nerve agent attack on the former double agent Sergei Skripal was also ordered by the intelligence agency. The British government is poised to submit an extradition request to Moscow for two Russians suspected of carrying out the Salisbury attack that left one person dead and three injured, including Skripal and his daughter.
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WNU Editor: Here is another article on the GRU .... This Russian Spy Agency is in the Middle of Everything (Daily Beast).
