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Quoted by AFP in The Figaro.fr under the title " Putin encourages economic espionage," the Russian Prime Minister justified the use of "aid for special services" for the collection "intelligence techno-scientific "by the fact that, as do" intelligence services of many countries, "they can work" with significant legal sources.

other words, they would have us believe that " special services "are needed to collect the" technical-scientific information "without" necessarily violating the laws of other countries. "

AFP 18/12 / 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB today called on the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) to make economic espionage to help modernize Russia.

"There are different spheres of activity for intelligence: intelligence techno-scientific and political intelligence. Therefore, when we have goals of economic modernization, using special services is not enough, "he said, the agency Ria Novosti, in a television broadcast that will air tonight in Moscow.

"That does not mean that we must break the laws of other countries, intelligence services of many countries working with significantly legal sources," added Vladimir Putin.

The Russian authorities have made the modernization of the country their priority, while many factories and infrastructure in Russia still date from the Soviet era and are obsolete.

Le Figaro seems to talk here is based on economic espionage, but is it reasonable from a head of government of one of the greatest powers on earth, to hold such a speech? Is not that a bit worrying that a large Western media relays such a speech without seeming to worry about at all?

By nature, special services are designed to operate in secret, hiding it becomes difficult to justify when one claims to be content to operate legally. Do not assume that this is actually a declaration of war - a statement as a regularization Moreover, as it seems reason to believe that the Russian intelligence services have probably never (as other for that matter) continued to engage in industrial espionage outside their borders - this would show a very great simplicity. Do not see such a public statement in a clear and extremely alarming degradation of the quality of international relations, that is, from the major Western democracies, is blind to the rise of risk a little (relatively speaking) as they did eight decades earlier before the bellicose statements of a man named Hitler.

Maybe can you say to reassure himself, by dint of confusing, in France and elsewhere, business intelligence and special services, Putin's remarks were mistranslated by AFP. In the modern intelligence, operations intelligence is indeed now part of the job the most important and most difficult to achieve, and can in no way be confused with the clandestine collection of intelligence (espionage) that is just one very specific aspect, for this reason given to "special" services. The remarks of Russian Prime Minister would be infinitely more acceptable Indeed if he had talked of using the operational capacity of the information "open" its intelligence services. But who cares?

Perhaps one might be objected that the competencies of services used to swim in troubled waters may be useful for the collection of information called "gray" while remaining within the strict framework of legality and there is nothing shocking about what a great democracy do use these skills. But it is precisely the development of these "gray areas" (which are actually areas of non-right), posing in my opinion the problem and indicates a slow degradation of the quality of international relations. If states, rather than seeking to reduce these gray areas in legislating, trying to take the opportunity to organize the looting of techno-scientific advances of their rivals, it can indeed be pessimistic about the future of good Relations between great nations.

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