The Russian government sent a team of spies to Ireland to monitor undersea fiber-optic cables, which enable communications traffic between North America and Western Europe, according to a new report.
The spies were allegedly sent to Ireland
by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed
Forces, which is known in Russia as GU, and formerly as GRU.
Due to its geographical proximity to both
North America and Europe, Ireland constitutes a major hub for several
of the more than 300 undersea cables that currently cross the world’s
oceans. Totaling over 500,000 miles, these cables deliver Internet and
telephone traffic across every continent. Nearly all transcontinental
communications traffic is facilitated through these cables.
According to the London-based Sunday Times
newspaper, the Irish security services believe that the GU spies were
sent to Ireland to check the cables for weak points, in case Moscow
decides to sabotage them in the future. Others claim that the Russian
spies sought physical access to the cables in order to install wiretaps.
The Times article also claims that Russian spies were detected
by Irish security personnel monitoring the Dublin Port, which is
Ireland’s primary seaport. This, said The Times, prompted a security alert in government facilities along the Irish coastline.
The same report claimed that the GU has
been using Ireland as a base for operations in northwestern Europe, from
where Russian spies can gather intelligence on European targets such as
Belgium, the United Kingdom, Holland and France.
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