By Kyle Wilson, the interpreter: “The policy of assassinating those abroad deemed traitors goes back to the Cheka, the secret police set up by Vladimir Lenin in 1917, succeeded by the KGB and today’s FSB.
by Markos Kounalakis via Sacramento Bee
Global spy games just got a little more dangerous with the byzantine poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the medieval-era UK city of Salisbury.
Leon Aron | American Enterprise Institute
Spencer Moore, Cecilia Gallogly, and Leon Aron | Banter
Leon Aron discusses the threat Vladimir Putin’s Russia poses to countries in Europe and Central Asia. Aron recently released a collection of essays titled “To Have and to Hold: Putin’s Quest for Control in the Former Soviet Empire.” The essays assess the likelihood of Russian intervention in six neighboring countries.
The banned agents are increasingly being used for assassination and terror.