But that it's in illiterate Bulgarian makes me crazy. "The tasking memo was pretty amateurish but normal I guess, they wanted as much info on anything related to NATO that wasn't Bulgarian because they don't care about Bulgaria they clearly only care about foreign NATO officers.
The counterintelligence official was particularly shocked at both the clumsy nature of the operation and the bizarre lack of language skills of those running it, considering the spies involved would have been elite intelligence officials with extensive language training who were working in Bulgarian, a Slavic language with close ties to Russia. ( There is a lengthy Twitter thread discussing details of the failed operation here, by the journalist Christo Grozev of Bellingcat.) "This isn't a bunch of dumb thugs from the GRU either, this is the proper SVD running operations from an embassy in a NATO capital." "And who is running this woman - again married to one of the top agents - on the Russian side? The top two Russian diplomats at the embassy in Sofia run her themselves to the point they're caught on video with her," said the NATO official. "They've got the wife of a prominent figure in the defense industry - who happens to hold dual Bulgarian-Russian passports - coordinating a bunch of agents herself and she's on video taking meetings at the embassy and in public with Russian officials," said a NATO counterintelligence official who works undercover and cannot be named. It often indicates a user profile.Ī tasking memo written 'in illiterate Bulgarian'
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