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A Russian intelligence operation infiltrated Europe's most secretive spy agency

A Russian intelligence operation infiltrated Europe's most secretive spy agency

Peyman Kia, a Swedish intelligence officer, spied for Russia for ten years. He will have caused untold damage to one of Europe's most admired intelligence communities.

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Jan 22, 2023
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On 19 January a Stockholm court announced that Peyman Kia, a former Swedish intelligence officer, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for “aggravated espionage”, along with his younger brother who got 10 years. Both were found to have spied for Russia’s GRU, the feared military intelligence service, for more than a decade. The impact of the…

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