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MP linked with FSB/KGB, Putin planning to now use ROCOR too?

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RUSSIAN CHURCH LINKED WITH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

FOLLOWING the apparent assassination of former FSB agent, Alexander Litvinenko, in London, there has been widespread speculation about the the activities of the intelligence services of post(?)-Soviet Russia. One of the more sober appraisals of the present situation was authored by Neil Mackay and published by the “Sunday Herald.” He begins his piece with the words: “To dissident Russian intelligence officers now in exile or in hiding around the world and British intelligence operatives, July 9 this year was a seismic date. On that day legislators in the Duma - the Russian state parliament - unanimously approved new laws which allowed Russia's Federal Security Service to hunt down and kill enemies of the state anywhere on the face of the Earth. One British intelligence source said: ‘This marked a blatant return to the bad old days of the cold war when the KGB thought it could act with impunity anywhere it pleased.’” One portion of Mackay report which will be of particular interest to our readers is the following: “One route to the diaspora is through the Russian Orthodox Church in countries such as Britain and America. According to Preobrazhensky [a former lieutenant colonel in Russian intelligence], Russian intelligence has long infiltrated the church and used it as a means to recruit emigré Russians and spy on dissidents and exiles. ‘In the Soviet period, the Kremlin treated Russian refugees as traitors and enemies, but now it is turning them into its fifth column,’ he says. ‘Specifically for this purpose, Putin has founded directorate EM in his Foreign Intelligence Service. Its officers are working in every Western country, concentrating on local Russians.’ Intelligence officers attract Russians overseas by appealing to their patriotism. ‘The communist idea has been replaced with the nationalistic one,’ Preobrazhensky says. The former spy adds that Putin aimed to turn the Orthodox Church abroad ‘into outposts of Russian state interests. Russian intelligence has penetrated the Orthodox Church and is utilising it for spying abroad.’ Preobrazhensky, who plans to write about this phenomenon in his forthcoming book, The KGB And The Russian Diaspora, points out that around a third of Russian Orthodox worshippers outside the borders of Russia are not native Russians but the children and grandchildren of immigrants. This, he says, gives the intelligence service a route to ‘ordinary’ Britons and Americans who have no understanding of Russian life and are more vulnerable to exploitation. ‘Westerners would think it unbelievable that a priest could be a spy - but in Russia is has been going on for almost 100 years,’ he adds. ‘Believe me - Russian Orthodox churches in the UK are infiltrated by Russian intelligence.’ The Sunday Herald contacted one Russian Orthodox church but the clergy there declined to comment on the allegations.”

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