RUSSIA: Despite deficiencies, SVR is seen as essential
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In this article
- Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
- Changing priorities
- Military espionage
- Political espionage
- Economic espionage
- Counter-terrorism
- Mediocre results
- Military intelligence weaknesses
- Poorly conceived missions
- Some economic successes
- Effective counter-terrorism?
- Prospects
- Putin's patronage
- Economic dimension
- Resistance to open sources
- Scapegoats?
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