Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

But if, if defenders appreciate that they have those opportunities to insert multiple hurdles, and a big advoca- a big thing that we're, we're advocating is a threat-led view, that if, if you wanna be really good at security, you ultimately need to go, need to know what you're up against.

And if you are the sort of organization that is worried about a GRU or SVR-style actor targeting your network, well, the good news is we know how those actors target networks.

We know how they move through the network.

So we, we, we have all of that threat intelligence, and it can seem a bit doom and gloom talking about the threat so much.

And we now know now...

Who was the Russian emissary, just to remind our viewers? Oh, Natalia Velsinskaya, who was a lawyer who was connected to the FSB, the Russian Intelligence Service.

And we do know now, which we didn't know then, that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair of the Trump campaign, was interacting throughout the campaign with a former business associate in Konstantin Kalimnik, who's been identified as a Russian intelligence officer.

So a lot of information was not known.

We have this bizarre trip by John Ratcliffe, CIA director to Moscow.

He goes and he meets with the, uh, the heads of the SVR and the FSB, uh, Naryshkin and Bortnikov.

He was gonna meet with Putin.

And remember this, th- or this sort of debate or controversy about what did Ratcliffe go to Moscow to discuss? Some people said he went there to try to end the war in Ukraine.

Yeah.

That was, uh, that was the, uh, the SVR, I believe the foreign intelligence, but these are all, yeah.

I mean, they're all connected, of course, in this, you know, this death squad, um, whose job it is to follow prominent opponents around the country into the hotel rooms and, um, you know, put military grade nerve agent on their underwear.

And we know, thanks to the Bellingcat investigations, we know several cases where they have been able to kill people.

So I was just going to go and say, you know, CIA, of course, Central Intelligence, DIA, NSA, National Security, FBI.

But the people that are in this are not only the CIA and DIA, FBI, but England's MI6, Israel's Mossad, the Russian SVR, formerly known as KGB, and other worldwide intelligence agencies that now have secret space program secrets to protect.

So this is a worldwide event.

The Worldwide Deep State Intelligence Network.

According to Anthropic, its attribution is consistent with public reporting connected to the actor named Midnight Blizzard, the Russian-linked cyber espionage group also known as APT-29 or Cozy Bear.

Midnight Blizzard has previously been attributed by Western governments to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the

SPR.

An important caveat here.