SPIEGEL ONLINE - Doing Putin's Dirty Work: The Rise of Russia's GRU Military Intelligence Service

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SPIEGEL ONLINE, 10/19/2018
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Doing Putin's Dirty Work: The Rise of Russia's GRU Military Intelligence
Service
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Russia's GRU military intelligence service has become a political
instrument for President Putin -- in the poison attack in Salisbury,
hacking against the West and even in dealing with his country's doping
scandal. Lately, though, the secret service can't seem to stay out of
the headlines.

By Christian Esch

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