for Sergei Jirnov, former KGB agent, the “illegal service” is back within the KGB

“This tells us that the department I worked in when I served in the KGB, the illegals department, is back among the Russian special services“, explains Sergei Jirnov, former KGB agent. A service that he describes as “clandestine“.”These Bulgarians look more like illegal immigrants. Firstly, they are citizens of a European Union country, so they do not necessarily attract the interest of counter-espionage services in Great Britain. But they seem to be working for the Russians“, he continues.

Russian services have doubled their numbers compared to the Cold War

Russian services have “doubled the workforce” in relation to the Cold War, recalls Sergei Zhirnov. What exactly is a clandestine agent? “Someone pretending to be locals“, summarizes the specialist. “Which has no connection with Russia, which has no connection with the embassy, ​​nor with the consulates, nor with the commercial representations. It is someone who hides under a foreign identity: either local or from a friendly country“, specifies Sergei Zhirnov. How did the security services unmask them? The former agent wonders: “Were they denounced by a mole working for the British? Or did they commit professional misconduct?“