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Baltic States Increase Efforts to Identify Russian Spies

Jamie Dettmer

   The Baltic states are stepping up coordinated efforts to identify
   people among their populations who have been recruited by Russian
   intelligence agencies, say officials.

   Security chiefs in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fear the Kremlin has
   increased recruitment not only of "assets" tasked with engaging in the
   classic spying activity of gathering sensitive information, but also
   possibly to lay the groundwork for sabotage and subversion and to
   assist in so-called "Russian influence activities," according to Baltic
   officials.

   And all three countries are scrambling to better prepare for hybrid
   warfare, in case their giant neighbor decides to launch the kind of
   hybrid destabilization campaign it has waged since 2014 in Ukraine.
   Later this year, a special fusion cell will become operational with
   U.S. help.

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