Sydney Morning Herald
December 28, 2010
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MOSCOW: Two of Russia’s biggest spy agencies are at war with one another as attempts are made to merge them and create an intelligence service modelled on the Soviet-era KGB, according to a Russian intelligence expert.
Observers believe the domestic FSB security service is trying to subsume the SVR foreign intelligence service to create a single entity along the lines of the KGB.
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Supporters of the plan are seeking to capitalise on the SVR’s worst post-Soviet failure, the deportation of 10 of its sleeper agents from the US this year, arguing that the debacle proves that the SVR has lost its way.
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