US Edition(Un)orthodox Intelligence Ops: How Russia Is Using Its Churches Abroad
VÄSTMANLAND COUNTY, SWEDEN, JUL 7 – Swedish security agency suspects the Russian Orthodox Church near Stockholm-Västerås Airport is used for espionage, with strategic ties to Russian intelligence and funding from Russia's Rosatom.
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The Swedish church at the centre of a Russian spy drama
Swedish intelligence services believe that one of the country's Russian Orthodox churches could be a base for spying.Almost everything about the "onion-domed" church beside Västerås Airport, about an hour from Stockholm, "seems odd", said France 24.The Church of the Holy Mother of God of Kazan is "spectacular", but there is "something unwelcoming" about its reflective, dark-tinted windows that "make it hard to glimpse inside". Then there is the …
The Russian Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, located just 300 meters from Stockholm-Västerås Airport in Sweden, has come under the spotlight of the country's security service. Officials fear that the Kremlin is using the Russian Orthodox Church for espionage as part of its hybrid warfare. The Swedish Security Agency believes that the church is being used as a platform for intelligence gathering and other hostile activities by the R…
(Un)orthodox intelligence operations: How Russia is using its churches abroad
ADVERTISEMENT Sweden has opened up a probe into a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible links to the Kremlin’s hybrid warfare techniques. An investigation by outlet France24 revealed that the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God might be used for espionage. Located just 300 metres from Stockholm-Västerås Airport, it has drawn scrutiny from local authorities and security services over its ties with Russian intelli…
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