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Intelligence directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence accused mass media of provocation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kiev suggesting disposing special-task troops on vessels with Ukrainian seamen
Four rebels killed in security forces operation in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkessia republic
Incident involving one of Yamadayevs brothers was not simple road accident - relative of former GRU battalion member
Israel’s counterintelligence declassified documents on Soviet KGB spy Levinson
No more power struggle at Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security – Interior Minister
Czech Republic released list of Czechoslovak Communist secret services members
Intelligence directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence accused mass media of provocation
The Main Inteligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine declared
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that the struggle against terrorism cannot be pretext for discreditation of this structure, online paper Korrespondent.net reports.
"Reports on participation of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine in actions on stoppage of activity of radical Islamist movement At-Takfir wal-Hijra, including in the territory of the Crimea autonomus republic, have been promulgated in mass media,” the statement of the GUR public relations service says. It has noted that "the orientation of separate publications has provocative character and they are aimed at discreditation of the intelligence body of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine".
The GUR public relations service is authorized to announce that „according to the Law On Intelligence Bodies of Ukraine, among the primary goals of the intelligence body of the Ministry of Defence is participation in struggle against terrorism, the international organized crime, the illegal turnover of narcotics, illegal traffic of arms and manufacturing technologies, illegal migration, and also acceptance of measures of counteraction to external threats to national security of Ukraine".
On October 26, Minister of Interior of Ukraine Yury Lutsenko declared that activists of the At-Takfir wal-Hijra "had sentenced to death" the leader of Majlis of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, and his closest followers, and also had been preparing for use of fire-arms and explosives with an aim of a number of acts of terrorism.
Lutsenko criticised President Viktor Yushchenko for blockade of the migratory legislation, news agency UNIAN reports. In particular, making comments on activity of the radical Islamic movement At-Takfir wal-Hijra, he declared that " because of Yushchenko, the country has been turning into a safe heaven of terrorists".
Mustafa Dzhemilev, referring to sources in diplomatic circles, declared that the Russian secret services were behind the radical Islamists who were prepared his murder. The Ukrainian police meanwhile stated that the Russian secret services were not involved in preparation of acts of terrorism in the Crimea, and the Russian Foreign Ministry did not make comments on Dzhemilev’s statement.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kiev suggesting disposing special-task troops on vessels with Ukrainian seamen
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine suggests to allow the Ukrainian military special-task units to accompany the vessels with Ukrainian crew in order to prevent their seizure by pirates, online paper. ForUm reports, referring to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko.
«We we in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have worked out an absolutely precise legislative settlement of this problem (employment of the Ukrainian seamen on foreign vessels), we transferred it to the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, coordinated it with The National Security and Defence Council, we have support and it will be one of the laws which will unite the Ukrainian political circles,” stressed the minister.
According to the minister, a program has been functioning in the European Union according to which the armed forces, the members of which are natives of special-task troops, are armed by machine guns and grenade launchers and capable to protect a vessel from any attacks 24 hours per day. First, this is the support of the ships of the World Food Organizations which provide food for Africa. Besides it is a question of maintenance of Somalia with foodstuff, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
«We have offered... that representatives of the Ukrainian security services are involved in such a program, and we have made an offer that our Ukrainian special-task troops financed from the Ukrainian budget, would accompany Ukrainian vessels with the Ukrainian crew», said Poroshenko.
Poroshenko emphasized that the problem of piracy is necessary to be solved in a complex way. According to his data, 75,000 Ukrainian seamen for today are working on foreign vessels.
Four rebels killed in security forces operation in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkessia republic
The investigation has identified all four suspected rebels who were killed in a clash with security forces in the Karachay-Cherkessia republic in Russia's North Caucasus, the Interfax news agency reports, quoting a local Interior Ministry official.
The rebels were rendering fierce resistance during a special operation, the official has said. He added that a police officer was also injured in the clash and guns and ammunition were seized. The former member of the Karachay-Cherkessia interior department, Denis Bogdanov, appeared to be among the killed rebels, Interfax notes, referring to Viacheslav Taranenko, the senior assistant to the head of the Karachay-Cherkessia Investigative Committee.
The security forces operation was aimed at detention of Ruslan Khubiyev who has been suspected of having mounted several attacks on officers, the official said earlier, Interfax notes. In the course of firing Khubiyev, and two other rebels, Azret Bidzhiyev and Akhmed Baiyev, were killed, news agency adds.
According to the first deputy Minister of Interior of Russia, Mikhail Suhodolsky, the destroyed rebels planned to blow up one of departments of interior of Karachay-Cherkessia, news agency RIA Novosti says.
Members of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Karachay-Cherkessia directorate and the Ministry of Interior of the autonomous republic were participating at the operation, RIA Novosti expands.
Incident involving one of Yamadayevs brothers was not simple road accident - relative of former GRU battalion member
The road accident on November 1, in Moscow suburbs involving one of the survived brothers Yamadayevs, Isa, has been arranged with the purpose of his murder, close relative of the Yamadayevs considers. The members of Yamadauevs family are convinced that attempts to kill Isa, the former member of the Russian military intelligence Chechen battalion Vostok, will continue, online paper Kavkaz uzel reports.
One of the relatives believes that Isa Yamadayev escaped from death only thanks ot the fact that his vehicle was an armoured one. "Most likely this accident was specially arranged. Isa also thinks so. The killers simply did not expect that he would manage to leave the site of road accident so quickly. Most likely they have planned to kill Isa on the spot if it would survive in the accident", the Yamadayevs’ relative told Kavkaz-uzel.
According to the source, it was literally a few minutes after the incident when some vehicles with numberplates of the Chechen region arrived to the site. "It is clear that it could not be simple coincidence and that Isa’s shadowing was conducted. Isa was rescueed only by the circumstance that his security guards put him on other car at once and have taken away", the interlocutor noted.
He considers that it has been a regular attempt on Isa Yamadayev, 34, and that it was not the last attempt to kill him. According to the Yamadayevs’ relative, the road accident in Moscow was organized by the same people who have been behind the murder of Ruslan Yamadayev in Moscow and assassination attempt on Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai.
Isa Yamadayev himself has not excluded that the accident in which he appeared could be not casual. "We at once have thought that shoot will start and this was an assassination attempt. A skilled expert would not find a better place for it", Yamadayev told radio Ekho Moskvy on the day of incident.
In summer 2009, Isa Yamadayev already survived an assassination attempt when one of his bodyguards, Khavazhi Yusupov, having returned to Moscow from vacations in Chechen Republic, attempted to shoot him at his residence.
Isa Yamadayev has expressed opinion that the Chechen Republic have been behind the assassination attempt of his brother Sulim Yamadayev and murder of other brother, the former member of the Russian State Duma, Ruslan Yamadayev.
The conflict between the Yamadayev brothers and the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov aggravated after a quarrel in the spring of 2008 between a group of members of the special-task battalion Vostok under the youngest Yamadayevs brother, Badruddi, and the security guards of Ramzan Kadyrov that almost grew into fire exchange. The commander of the Vostok battalion at that time was Sulim Yamadayev. After this incident the Chechen authorities accused the Yamadayevs of abduction of civilians and murders. In May 2008, Sulim Yamadayev was dismissed from the post of the battalion commander, then the battalion was disbanded.
Israel’s counterintelligence declassified documents on Soviet KGB spy Levinson
The Israel Security Agency (ISA), commonly known as the Shin Bet/SHABAK, has opened these days the documents on Colonel Shimon Levinson, one of the KGB agents who worked in the protection service of the Prime Minister of Israel, INN reports.
According to the INN website, SHABAK declassified a part of data on espionage activity of the former Colonel Shimon Levinson in favour of the KGB in the 1980s. Levinson has voluntary agreed to recruitment, having arrived to the Soviet embassy in Bangkok in 1983 where he appeared, working in the United Nations Fund for struggle against drug-dealing in Southeast Asia.
He wished to sell the information on the Israel’s secret services for a large amount of money, $100,000, but the Soviet agents forced him to continue to work for them. Under their instruction, Levinson tried to get into Mossad and even was assigned the chief of prime minister’s protection department. However he did no keep his post long as was dismissed because of insufficient efforts.
According to INN, Levinson earned $31,000, having sold the information on the management and departments of the Mossad foreign intelligence, counterespionage of SHABAK, the Nativ Bureau and military intelligence, AMAN. He also reported to the KGB on methods of transfer of confidential information by the Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and named officers of the US security services who worked as coordinators on cooperation with the intelligence services of Israel.
SHABAK notes that Levinson caused very significant damage to Israel, having collaborated for seven years with the KGB. He was detained in 1991 shortly after he had decided to stop cooperation with the Soviet secret services as they paid quite a little. Having spent 8 years of 12 he was sentenced to, Levinson has left Israel, according to INN.
No more power struggle at Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security – Interior Minister
The new leaderships of the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria and the State Agency for National Security (DANS) have implemented measures to have the leakage of information stopped, Sofia-based daily Trud cites Deputy Prime Minister and
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov. The headline of the interview says, There Is No War for Power at DANS Any More.
The same daily also quotes Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov as saying at a roundtable on the reforms and the future of the State Agency for National Security that 92 per cent of the money budgeted for the DANS (96 million leva) has been spent on salaries.
"The Prime Minister was categorically that the agency receives a "vote of confidence" but it should produce, say, proactive information on energy security and whether a gas crisis is likely. According to Borissov, the worst damage inflicted on DANS is the loss of its credibility with the foreign partner services. The DANS Chairman Tsvetlin Yovchev noted that "the stability of the national
security system against external destructive elements is below the critical minimum." Unauthorized access to classified information is not infrequent, Yovchev admitted. Prosecutor General Boris Velchev recommended to the DANS Chairman to form a strong legal team, Trud adds.
Meanwhile in an interview to the daily 24 Chasa, the former DANS Special Actions Department director Velin Hadjolov says that Deputy Prime Minister
Tsvetan Tsvetanov is misleading Prime Minister Borissov by taking over control of DANS. In this way, the Prime Minister forfeits the statutory responsibility and he is deprived of the role of a leading factor in the management of crisis situations relevant to the protection of national security and statehood. "The adoption of the proposed revisions of the DANS Act completely ruins a modern special service, which has been granted autonomy and powers to act effectively for the detection, prevention and frustration of crimes threatening national security," Hadjolov argues.
Czech Republic released list of Czechoslovak Communist secret services
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The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR) has decided to publish the list of former members of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the National Security Service of Czechoslovakia, disbanded after the fall of Communist regime in 1989, the USTR website says.
The list of members of the former Czech communist intelligence services has been released on the occasion of the 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the USTR head Pavel Zacek told journalists. The personal cards of the intelligence members and their photographs are available on the institute website, news agency CTK reports.
The intelligence headquarters, then known as the 1st directorate of the State Security Service, gathered information on foreign bodies, such as political parties, state offices, military centres, research institutes, companies, church organisations and groups formed by Czech emigrants.
In 2008, the USTR received the documents, or 13,500 files, from the Czech UZSI civilian intelligence service, including the monitoring of certain buildings or communication between the Prague headquarters of the communist intelligence service and intelligence groups operating abroad.
The UZSI has also handed to the institute over 7,000 files of its secret collaborators, the database and a card index, CTK adds.
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