INTEL READS: How Russian Spies Recruit, Pressure and Run Their Informants (via POLITICO.EU)

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Just before New Year’s Eve 2024, as many Russians were calling family and friends with holiday wishes, a 21-year-old computer science student living in Moscow received a very different kind of greeting.

“Fate keeps steering you away, from criminal persecution, from the army. I hope everything works out for you,” the ca…