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A specialized operation is currently being conducted in the building of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP), BNR reported.

According to unconfirmed information, the action was carried out by the "Internal Security" unit of the Ministry of the Interior.

According to unofficial data, it is an investigation into espionage for the benefit of Russia.

His life is similar to that of a Hollywood hero - perhaps the super-spy Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon in the famous film series. Except that Jack Barsky was not in the ranks of the CIA, but the KGB at the end of the Cold War.

"We have information that Russia is increasing its efforts to strike the civilian infrastructure and buildings of state institutions in Ukraine in the coming days" - said a representative of the US administration to American media.

Within the scope of counter-intelligence facilities named "İKK," Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has prioritized implementing briefings on the defense industry, the rising star sector of the country, daily Milliyet has reported. 

The document suggests that the U.S. counterintelligence service underestimated its rivals, while the management of the agency is worried that more attention must be paid to the protection of agents, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported today, citing other world media.

Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested an Italian navy captain and a Russian diplomat on suspicion of spying after the two were caught swapping a document for money at a clandestine meeting.

John le Carre, a spy turned novelist who became the preeminent writer of espionage fiction in English, has died at age 89.

Le Carre's literary agency, Curtis Brown, said on Dec. 13 that he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday after a short illness. The death was not related to COVID-19.

US intelligence agencies have launched a campaign in Eastern Europe against neighbourly relations with Russia, with Bulgaria as its epicentre. This was stated by TASS spokesman for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Ivanov, quoted by the BNR.

Zeljski confirmed to RTS that local security services know the identity of a person called a "high-ranking official with an officer's rank", as well as the subject of the trade, but did not want to talk about it, as it encroaches on "sensitive territory of operational collection of information and data analysis".