Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
The region is a good spot to nurture spies
Over the past 18 months suspected Russian spies have been unearthed in Europe, from the Netherlands to Norway and Sweden to Slovenia. Many have something in common: a link to the Americas. The arrests show that Latin America remains, as it was in the cold war, a springboard for Russian spies who go on to snoop around the United States and Europe.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Spooks in the south”
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