cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51248621

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• In 2024, over 60 Russian agents were deployed to spread disinformation across three continents. At least 17 of them are former members of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s network.
• The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service now oversees their activities and provides financing through two front companies. This investigation reveals the identities of two Foreign Intelligence Service agents in charge of operations.
• The network, internally known as the “Company,” has established five offices abroad, including in Bolivia in 2024.
• With the help of “counter-agents” recruited in the field, the network also carries out intelligence missions.

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Since Yevgeny Prigozhin died in August 2023, his sprawling network of propaganda agents has come under the control of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. A data leak has allowed Forbidden Stories to identify more than 60 of its agents tasked with expanding Moscow’s disinformation efforts across three continents.

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