Britain’s nuclear power stations ‘searched for Russian secret agents over insider attack fears’
Amid deteriorating relations with the Kremlin following the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia in Salisbury, the hunt is on for possible saboteurs.
BRITAIN’S nuclear power stations are being swept for secret Russian agents among the staff who could cripple them.
Amid deteriorating relations with the Kremlin following the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia in Salisbury, the hunt is on for possible saboteurs.
Security measures creating a gap between operational IT and the internet will ward off a Kremlin cyber-attack on our critical infrastructure.
A ex-senior intelligence officer told The Mirror: “If there was an insider the gap could be bridged with a USB stick, introducing malware to the system.”
UK spymasters tightened security around the nations power supply after foiling a 1997 IRA plot to blow up six electricity sub-stations serving London.
The security of critical industries involved in the supply of energy, water, transport and communications is now in the hands of MI5’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
Twenty-nine countries have expelled Russian diplomats in solidarity with us. The US threw out 60 diplomats, which Moscow reacted to in kind.
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The British and US expulsions will disrupt the work of Russia’s GRU military intelligence and SVR.
Networks of “illegals”, as spies without diplomatic cover are known, will no longer have their handlers.
The Skripals were targeted with a nerve agent a month ago.
Sergei, 66, remains in a critical condition but Yulia, 33, has recovered consciousness and is eating, drinking and talking.
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