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Sharing of information among foreign intelligence agencies / Russian responseThe Kremlin
was regularly stating that there was a linkage between Chechen and
international Islamic terrorists. Despite the clear implications for
international cooperation these charges made, the intelligence cooperation was
non-existent. Any information exchange was supposed pass through The Common
Wealth of Independent States (CIS), but before Beslan
the system was dysfunctional. The As a result
of structural reform of FSB’s Service for the
Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism was
formed new division: Directorate on fight against international terrorism (UBMT
FSB). Probably, this Directorate also should be responsible "for
destruction of insurgents abroad" that President Vladimir Putin has declared right after Beslan.
Besides on October, 12th, 2004 the former first deputy director of FSB Anatoly Safonov has been appointed as the special envoy - the
special representative of the President of the On December, 6th, 2004 director of FSB Nikolay Patrushev and director of FBI Robert Muller have signed the memorandum of cooperation between the two services. After signing the document Patrushev has declared: "the memorandum which particularly stipulates our cooperation on a lot of directions is signed. First of all, this cooperation in struggle against the international terrorism, in struggle against the crimes connected with the weapon of mass destruction, and in other directions ". ***** Creation of
Directorate on fight against international terrorism of FSB and making the
deputy director of FSB as the special representative of the president on these
questions is a positive step, but is not a solution of the essential problem of
how to ménage the constant daily exchange of the operative information
with special services of other countries. The post of the special
representative is primarily a point for applying diplomatic pressure on
countries that are not cooperating with The UBMT FSB maintains its own contacts with foreign special services (such as FBI), but only in limited tactical areas and without information exchange. These
limited connections are in contrast to the rest of the developed world where
cooperation is far more extensive. In
the Europe in 2001 practice of the common European arrest warrant has been
introduced, and after acts of terrorism on March, 14th in Madrid the post of
the coordinator of EU on terrorism was formed. Within the limits of
Commonwealth axis of the Source:
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