It is well known that secret agents are also stationed at many embassies of larger countries abroad. The Russians even have several secret services whose people sit in embassies.
According to German security authorities, agents and spies from at least three secret services are working in the Russian embassy in Berlin. That’s what the Berlin Senate Administration, which also includes the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, answered a CDU request. The military secret service GRU, the civil foreign secret service SWR and the domestic secret service FSB are named.
The Russian secret services are present in Germany “in varying numbers at the respective official or semi-official representations”, i.e. in the embassy and consulates. The Senate did not provide any information on how many employees of these secret services worked in Berlin. The central evaluation in the field of counter-espionage lies with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it said.
In the trial surrounding the murder of a Chechen by a Russian secret service agent in a Berlin park, it became known that the perpetrator had received help and support from unknown persons in Berlin. According to the initial results of the investigation, the federal government had already expelled two Russian embassy employees, and after the verdict in December 2021, two other men from the embassy were declared “undesirable persons”.
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In October 2021, the body of an embassy employee was found on the sidewalk at the rear of the embassy complex. The man probably fell from an upper floor. According to a report by “Spiegel”, he had been accredited as an embassy secretary in Berlin since the summer of 2019, and he was known to the German authorities as a camouflaged member of the Russian secret service FSB. The Russian embassy spoke of a “tragic accident”. The body was not allowed to be autopsied in Berlin, but was taken directly to Russia.
