Russia poses biggest security threat to Britain

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Russia now poses the biggest threat to Britain since the Cold War according to the security sources. MI5 fears that Britain has been swamped with spies since the breakdown of relations over the tit-for-tat accusations over the poisoning of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko. With an increasing number of high-profile Russian expats using Britain as a base, the number of Russian espionage agents has risen accordingly. Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire who has spent millions in opposing Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, has been a particularly high profile target for the KGB's successor, the SVR and its military equivalent the GRU. British counter-intelligence agents are desperate to avoid another embarrassing assassination on British soil but are annoyed that their resources... [read full story]