Recently, there has been an increase in the number of incidents in which the Russian secret services try to recruit German citizens visiting Russia, writes the weekly German magazine Der Spiegel today.
Russian secret services are increasingly trying to turn Germans arriving in Russia into cooperating as informants, the magazine writes. Der Spiegel citing the Federal Service for the Protection of the Constitution
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of incidents in which Russian secret servicesare trying to recruit German citizens visiting Russia, writes today the weekly German magazine Der Spiegel, which has at its disposal a detailed internal report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV).
In the report it is stated that the target of the secret services of Russia can become the collaborators of its diplomatic missions Germany.
However, potential targets may also be those traveling individually, either for business reasons, BfV considers. The BfV predicts that Russian agents will then “recruit” German citizens, possibly using “harder and more cynical methods” to bend them to cooperate. For this reason, they may use elements of blackmail, or create situations through which they will put pressure on them
Germany’s foreign ministry directly warns those who are going to visit Russia not to use social media. “Critical views on current political events” can “carry unforeseen personal risks» says the German Foreign Ministry. In Moscow, police have already carried out checks on the mobile phones of people of interest to the secret services, which are studying what they write on messaging apps and social media.
In June, German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser, assessing the activity of the Russian intelligence services in Germany, drew attention to the fact that “especially in such sensitive locations as the government quarter in Berlin, the risks of eavesdropping as well as the risks of information leakage are real and they should not be underestimated.”
Fesser also warned that conversations carried over ordinary telecommunications networks are “essentially not protected from eavesdropping”. We must assume that foreign intelligence agencies “make significant efforts to intercept and record telecommunications connections,” the minister said.
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