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Subject: UK admits spying on Russia with the help of a fake rock
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Here's an old spy story, except that now the UK has finally admitted
to using this tradecraft in Moscow as it was accused to have in
2006. In 2007 a reliable source told me the fake rock contained a
modified Bluetooth transceiver and flash memory drive with a large
battery pack, for use as a contactless dead drop. The Russian video
linked to in the story below shows pictures of the device and an
X-ray image of it.
BBC also has a story online now, but it has less content than the RT
story below.
-bernieS
http://rt.com/news/spy-rock-britain-admit-147/
UK admits spying on Russia with the help of a fake rock
Published: 19 January, 2012, 09:51
Russia Today
Transceiver disguised as rock used by British spies in Russia in 2006
(5.5Mb Video)
The UK has admitted for the first time it was spying on Russia six
years ago with the help of a fake rock. The adviser to the then
British PM Tony Blair called the incident embarrassing.
"They had us bang to rights," Jonathan Powell told the BBC in an
interview. He added that Russians must have known about the spying
hardware for some time and exposed it at a politically opportune moment.
In January 2006, a report on Russian television claimed there was
proof British spies used electronic equipment hidden inside a fake
rock to exchange information between agents and embassy staff.
An agent would pass by and download data from his portable computer,
while a diplomat would later collect it in a similar way. Four people
involved in the spy ring have been identified by the Federal Security Service.
Christopher Pierce, the diplomat who was said to have installed the
secret link, was also responsible for financing Russian
non-governmental organizations with British grants. The report
implied that the two sides of his job in Russia may have further
links, saying that the spy scandal "discredited the fine idea of NGOs."
Britain expressed "concern and surprise" over the allegations at the time.
There have been a number of spy scandals between Britain and Russia.
The latest saw a Russian woman winning her fight in London against
extradition, after she was accused of being a honeytrap for a British MP.
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