WHAT RUSSIAN SPIES ARE DOING IN GERMANY

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well a fascinating story about Russian spies in Germany. Most
American service personnel station in Germany, known as Graph as
it's colloquially known, Americans heading toward the training area by
helicopter would often see long flapbed cars on trains carrying
tanks to that particular area. Now in today's world is

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the largest training area maintained by the United States and
Germany and the site of armored vehicle training, army posts,
and air force bases. Though are only some of the
targets zeroed in on by the Russians. They will seek
out any venue used to train their adversariess, especially the Ukrainians.
They know that the three spies captured and charged by

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the Germans were enlisted by the Russians first as spies
and potential future saboteurs and arsonists. These Russian Germans were
also directed to photograph and video the loading platforms and
significant companies involved in these Ukrainian training sites. The intelligence
gathering is believed to be only preparatory for attacks, which
would limit the value such combat intensive training. Of course,

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knowing what type of vehicles to photograph and report it
was indeed critical at Graph and newer American tanks and
armored vehicles were brought for shakedown, training, and maintenance. Spies
can also gain advantage for their masters by knowing where
damaged enemy vehicles go for repairs. If your company is
the recipient of miles of long flatbeds carrying damage armored vehicles,

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then you too will be targeted. They want to know
how the vehicles were damaging, whether the damage is easily repaired.
For these reasons, the routes to and from factories or
repair centers are critical. They need to have security personnel
to know to observe all those surrounding and wandering around
the plants. One method employed by a smart security guard

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was to photograph a given bus stop in front of
his company area. He did so every fifteen minutes to
see who was lingering and who never left, indeed, who
was photographing outside the plant. If anybody was, ask your
staff who among them might have been a roach for
unusual things is another good defense mechanism. One side edition,
one sanitation staff member overseas was offered one hundred dollars

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just to retrieve documents from the trash in English writing.
When he said he meet the request again, he was
a company by law enforcement. Spies are not superheroes, but
will often go for the lowest hanging fruit. Here, they
suspected a low level cleaner would never be briefed and
were shocked to discover he was not only briefed, but
received a huge bonus for turning in the spy. Does
your company offer bonuses to those who report unusual happenings interesting?

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Do you train them to look for unusual happenings things
like the adversary? Thinking like the adversary's key. Remember, you
have to think like your adversary, the spy when you
plan your defense. Let's think about the tank sent from
America to defend the Ukraine. They're sent via ship. With
the new rowrow system, the ship which carries them can
be easily identified. ROBO stands for roll on, roll off.

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This is a method of delivery which saves huge amounts
of time, as the seaport no longer a vehicles lifted
by chains and deposited one by one in the hold
of a ship. Rather, the arm of cars or tanks
simply roll one behind the other into the ships hold.
Over a steel bridge connected to the aft portion of
a ship. The bridge is raised once all they're aboard
in a way they sail. A spy would identify when

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this happened, what ships were involved, and prepare accordingly. The
spies in Germany were also tasked with identifying the railroad
hubs used to transfer the tanks. How better to slow
them down than to damage that relatively large confluence of
rails and determinal buildings. This is where harrison and dynamite
can play a role. Remember the recent incidents of fire

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and explicably breaking out ammunition dumps in Western Europe. While
the recruited spies were said to have been advised on
these methods as well. They also look for train schedules
and local access risks. The trains work their way to
training areas, often on a regular schedule. This schedule is
important to know. Those of us who laised within local
police need to be aware of who among the local
nationals would have access to the train schedules if I

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was working with them. Social engineering are local bars. This
is the easiest part of the espionage scenario training areas
and it's notorious for having bars in the vicinity. These
are preferred information collection points. Any number of clever tricks
can be employed against your team members there. If you
have soldiers or company employees or train them on new
tanks for air defense weapons, someone will try to steal

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their information. And of course you also have the famous
romeos and honey traps. Right the man a woman seated
near him or her at a bar likely to ask
indirect questions, where are you from? Where are you going?
Up to you leave? Do you have anyone who's waiting
for you? Can we meet again? And what lonely soldier
wouldn't like to be asked to meet again, especially by
someone who's only looking for a friend or somebody who's

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attractive or what they may be. You need to be
able to prepare your individuals for this. So there's your
interesting tips here about Russian spies in Germany and how
they're operating over there and what the American military is
doing to combat it.