Russia's Biggest Spy Agencies At War -- The Telegraph
Two of Russia's biggest spy agencies are at war with one another as a battle rages to merge them in order to create an intelligence service modelled on the Soviet-era KGB, it has been claimed.
According to Russian experts, the domestic FSB security service is trying to subsume the SVR foreign intelligence service in order to recreate a latter day KGB in all but name.
Supporters of the plan are seeking to capitalise on the SVR's worst post-Soviet failure, the deportation of ten of its sleeper agents from the United States this summer, arguing that the debacle proved that the SVR had lost its way, it is claimed.
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