AN ALLEGED RUSSIAN DEEP-cover intelligence operative, who was arrested by Norwegian police last week, spent years building his fake cover in Canada, while studying there as a Brazilian citizen, according to reports.
Norway’s Police Security Service (PST)
announced
last week that it had arrested José Assis Giammaria, a 37-year-old
Brazilian citizen, on suspicion of entering Norway on false pretenses.
According to the PST, Giammaria is in fact a Russian citizen, who has
been operating in Norway as a non-official-cover (NOC) intelligence
officer.
According
to Norwegian authorities, Giammaria worked as a researcher at the
Arctic University of Norway. Known as UiT, the university is located in
the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø. It has a worldwide reputation for
research, and approximately 10 percent of its 17,000 students are
international. While there, Giammaria was a volunteer researcher for a
UiT GreyZone, a scholarly project that studies contemporary hybrid
threats and grey zone warfare. His area of specialization appears to
have been Arctic security.
Last Friday, the office of the Norwegian state prosecutor said it believed
the suspect’s actual name is Mikhail Mikushin, a Russian citizen born
in 1978. In a press statement, a Norwegian government representative
said authorities were “not positively sure of his identity”, but it was
clear that he was not a Brazilian national. Later on Friday, the
Oslo-based Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG), in association with the investigative website Bellingcat, reported that
Mikushin is a military intelligence officer, who holds the rank of
colonel in the Main Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General
Staff, known as GRU. The newspaper claims that Mikushin left Russia in
2006 with a cover, a term that refers to a fake operational identity
used for purposes of espionage.
It also appears that Mikushin moved to Canada
in order to build his legend. The term refers to a complex universe of
informational and physical artefacts that support a spy’s cover. These
include the operative’s digital profile, as well as a set of
biographical details, family life data, educational history, personal
interests, etc., which breathe life to their cover. Mikushin graduated
in 2015 from Carleton University in Ottawa, with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in political science with a concentration in international
relations, as well as a minor degree in communications studies. In 2018,
he received his Master’s Degree in strategic studies from the
University of Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Mikushin appears to
have developed a strong interest in Arctic security policy. He relocated
to Tromsø with the help of recommendations from some of his professors
in Canada, who were not aware of his intelligence background.
Mikushin/Giammaria remains in custody in
Norway. He will remain in custody for a minimum of four weeks, while
Norwegian authorities prepare the evidence against him. Regular readers
of intelNews will recall
that Sergey Cherkasov, the Russian NOC who was arrested last summer in
the Netherlands using the name Victor Muller, was also posing as a
Brazilian citizen.
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