By giving the office to Sergey Ivanov, FIS has actually unveiled an employee working under the cover of journalism.
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Reporter to Brief for Intelligence
The name of the new briefer of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) was announced on Thursday. It is Sergey Ivanov, deputy editor-in-chief of Tribuna newspaper. Ivanov’s track record doesn’t set forth previous employment with the secret services, but this office could have hardly be given to an outsider. Former briefer of Foreign Intelligence Service, Boris Labusov will stand for the Russia’s intelligence in one of the countries of the world.
By giving the office to Sergey Ivanov, FIS has actually unveiled an employee working under the cover of journalism. According to the official biography, Ivanov was born November 8, 1959 and graduated from the Moscow State University (journalism department) in 1985. He first worked at Yunost (Youth) radio station and then at Komsomolskaya Pravda and Tribuna newspapers. Predictably, his track record sets forth no employment with Intelligence Service.
But it is most unlikely that the FIS will ever have in such office an outsider with no access to secrets and no trust of intelligence bosses. In the FIS, the briefer doesn’t confine to talking with reporters and arranging news conferences. He has also to control that no secrets of intelligence are leaking to public at large.
The former briefer of FIS, Col. Boris Labusov, “will switch over to another employment within intelligence,” according to official statement. Being a public figure, Labusov will probably represent Russia’s intelligence in one of the countries of the world, ensuring coordination of special services of that country with Russian counterparts.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 01, 2006
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