David Gosling - Spying for the Russians (with a little help from MI6)
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| Description: | As part of a visiting fellowship at Delhi University in the mid 1990’s the speaker set up seminars relating to nuclear power, one of which was attended by a Russian diplomat who offered payment in return for information about Britain’s nuclear waste disposal facilities. |
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| Created: | 2017-02-16 16:38 | ||
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| Collection: | Clare Hall Colloquium | ||
| Publisher: | Clare Hall | ||
| Copyright: | Clare Hall | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
| Keywords: | Russia; espionage; KGB; SVR; nuclear power; | ||
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| Abstract: | As part of a visiting fellowship at Delhi University in the mid 1990’s the speaker set up seminars relating to nuclear power, one of which was attended by a Russian diplomat who offered payment in return for information about Britain’s nuclear waste disposal facilities. On hearing about this unusual request MI6 informed the speaker that the Russian was a member of the former KGB (the SVR), and asked him to pass on such technical information as they gave him. This continued for almost four years. These events took place shortly after Boris Yeltsin had disbanded the KGB, replacing it with the Sluzhba Vnesney Razvedki (Foreign Intelligence Service). The priorities of this new agency were therefore of considerable interest to western intelligence. |
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