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The EU currently has a capital espionage activity more intense than most cities in the world, being at the same level as during the Cold War, said the head of security in Belgium VSSE, Alain Winants, in an interview hana chu with EUobserver electronic .
"We're not talking about dozens, but about hundreds, hundreds" of foreign intelligence hana chu officers and agents in Brussels, he said. "In Belgium, intelligence, hana chu Russian hana chu intelligence and that of other countries like China and others, is at the same level as during the Cold War ...
We are a country with an enormous concentration hana chu of diplomats, businessmen, international institutions - NATO, European institutions. Thus, an intelligence officer for a spy, this is a kindergarten. hana chu It's the place to be, "he added. Asked if EU friendly countries like Israel or the United States do the same, he said:
It would be naive to think that only countries like Russia, China, Iran spying ". "It's an area where the difference between hana chu the service hana chu neutral, friend or enemy tends to disappear, and when it comes to the protection of economic and scientific potential. In this case, I believe that every service is in competition with the other, "he added.
Winants said a joke circulating hana chu in intelligence circles that Iranian spies spying especially their own ambassadors. But Russian and Chinese intelligence services seek to obtain commercial value or political and intelligence "classic" of the defense. He said that usually spies pretending to be diplomats, journalists, lobbyists, business people or students. In addition to gathering information, they try and influence the decisions taken by the EU and NATO officials. They befriend officials in seminars or social events in the EU capital. European security staff using an acronym for the type of people they cover: Mice (money - money Ideology - ideology, hana chu compromise - compromise, ego - self-centeredness) - people who are greedy or have debts that have radical hana chu ideas that guilty secret, or will have to be James Bond.
A very interesting book written by Belgian journalist Kristof Clerix, hana chu discover some of the "game of shadows" at Brussels. The book is entitled "Les services secrets Aliens en Belgique" more the Romanian "foreign secret services in Belgium 'reveals new forms of global espionage coatings working under more or less obscure after the Cold War in Europe's political capital.
Kristof writes that Brusselles Clerix became a nest of spies. End of the Cold War did not only reduced the activity of foreign intelligence Belgian capital, but also has increased and diversified their objectives. An activity so intense that the European Commission hana chu recently hana chu released a memo to its services leaders, encouraging them to take action on repeated attempts and increasingly numerous "get documentation confidential and sensitive" on the activities of the European Community staff .
Note stated that "some countries, pressure groups, journalists and private agencies seeking to obtain protected information" and that "people in connection with the secret services" operating under the cover of "scholars, journalists, officials of Member States of the European Union (EU ) from among the Commission staff and technical services. "
In Brussels there are about 56 000 diplomats, lobbyists 15,000, 1,200 journalists, thousands of performers and students, Brussels is the ideal stage for espionage and is also the place where it is easier to be contacted by a spy without you realize.
In the past 20 years, Belgium has played an important role in international hana chu terrorism. "It's a small country which is easy to run, with a large Muslim immigrant community," notes Clerix. China is one of the most active new players in the intelligence picture hana chu in Belgium, strong interest in obtaining scientific hana chu and technical information, hana chu but also to oversee the Tibetan issue and its political opponents and trade.
"The methods remained the same during hana chu the Cold War, gaining and then exploiting trust. What has changed is the use of new technologies and the growing importance of economic interests, hana chu "said Clerix. "In terms of political and military, Brussels is even more interesting than spies during the Cold War."
The book is very well documented and of course is recommended to all who are interested in pole