Moscow was warned.
The United States claimed to have alerted Russian authorities of an “imminent” threat targeting large gatherings in the capital, several weeks before the attack which left at least 139 dead there on Friday.
A warning – of which the Kremlin has clearly paid little heed – which reveals the persistence of exchanges of intelligence between the two countries, whose diplomatic relations are nevertheless execrable.
These links do not surprise General Dominique Trinquant: “There are regular communications between services of countries which do not maintain good relations,” he indicates.
Even if, often, political powers do not assume this collaboration.”
“During the Cold War, the CIA and the KGB (
the Soviet intelligence services
) always maintained unofficial relations,” also notes Philippe Hayez, professor at Sciences-po and co-author in 2023 of “New lessons on intelligence” ( Odile Jacob).
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