Russian diplomats expelled from Ireland ‘met with members of paramilitary groups’
FOUR RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS, WHO Ireland claims are undercover intelligence officers, met with Irish paramilitaries as part of a wider plan to “stoke political unrest” in Britain and Ireland, according to a new report. In a press conference held in Dublin last week, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin announced that his government would expel four employees of the Russian Embassy there.
Martin did not provide details about the Russian diplomats, nor did he give their names. He said, however, that his administration had been provided with detailed information about the activities of the Russians by members of the National Crime and Security Intelligence Service of the An Garda Síochána (police service of the Republic of Ireland) and the Defence Intelligence Section of the Irish Armed Forces.
On Monday, an article by the London-based Times newspaper alleged that a major reason why Dublin decided to expel the Russian diplomats was their “efforts to cultivate contacts with dissident republicans and loyalist paramilitaries” in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, which is British soil. The Russian diplomats began meeting dissident republicans under the pretext of attending lectures and presentations on Irish history in Dublin and elsewhere, The Times said.
According to the paper, the activities of the Russian diplomats were part of a wider campaign by Russian intelligence to “undermine confidence” in European institutions, by exploiting nationalist tensions stirred by Britain’s recent exit from the European Union. The effort is being led by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, which is widely known by its Cold War-era initials, GRU. The spy agency is in charge of a campaign to amplify the voices of republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on social media and other platforms, in order to undermine regional security, The Times said.
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Lol, leprechauns would be easier found in Ireland than anyone capable of anything anymore. Even back in the day KGB wouldn’t touch those groups with a barge pole, so penetrated were they by Special Branch.
Did they expell the Eastern Block agitators out screaming in protest about a war we have nothing but disinformation about? There is constant hatespeech against Russians, RACISM, and discrimination.
We ARE NEUTRAL. I do not condone the Treason of this Govt compromising our neutrality. Back off. I dont condone nonIrish interfering in our political affairs. Just as Polish and Eastern Block wouldnt entertain me interfering in their politics.
Lets expel the muppet who made a terrorist attack with his lorry at the gates of an official embassy in Dublin?
Europe is in delirium. Nothing changes until hunger kicks in.Ireland is one of the worst. Margaret, are you in Ireland?
In other words, same shit the CIA does every day in nearly every country of the world. Zzzzzzz.