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The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the UK after it broadcast part of a speech he gave earlier this year where he called on Russians to join hands with British intelligence.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

Top tier trolling, lol

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

As if ruzzian media knew anything about the Streisand effect

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Anchor Maria Butina — herself a former Russian spy — included the clip at the top of a program about Richard Moore, the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6.

Moore gave the speech in July at the British Embassy in Prague where he openly encouraged Russians faced with “the venality, infighting and sheer callous incompetence of their leaders” to spy for Britain.

On Monday, Moore tweeted that the British foreign intelligence agency had been “puzzling over how to get my message to our target audience in Russia — we never thought Russian state TV would step in to help.”

Butina is a former covert Russian agent who spent more than a year in prison in the United States after admitting that she sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia’s agenda around the time that Donald Trump rose to power.

When asked whether she helped the U.K.'s foreign intelligence agency to spread its message to Russians, she suggested if Moore had watched the full program he would have seen the “unpleasant and ugly” portrayal of himself and MI6.

The U.K. government has recently also accused Russian intelligence services of trying to meddle in British politics by targeting high-profile politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage.


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