Secret services not only play a major role in wars, such as the current one in Ukraine, but often also act as a kind of “state within a state”: people are recruited to be useful as informants later on, but they also electronically tap measures and such coordination of cyber attacks. “Secret services are either primarily inward-facing or outward-facing,” historian Dieter Bacher, who has extensive expertise in the Secret Service, especially in the Cold War, told krone.tv in an interview.
In many cases, people would be recruited from whom it is hoped to provide information later on. The extent to which former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl was targeted in the early 1990s, as former Russian spy Sergei Shirnov claims, can hardly be verified.
The clichés of the James Bond movies would be exaggerated in many ways. On the one hand because the stories of the eternal women seem exaggerated, on the other because the sources of information are revealed far too often. “But that’s exactly what needs to be protected,” says Bacher. However, a cop’s day-to-day work would be more exciting than any spy thriller – more on that in the video above.
Source: Krone
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