A The revelations were made by Nicolas Lerner behind closed doors at a parliamentary hearing in February that investigates foreign attempts to influence or corrupt political parties, leaders and opinion makers in France. Parliament from France.
Nicholas Lerner described the discovery of the Russian agents as “one of the most significant counterintelligence operations carried out by the DGSI in recent decades.”
Six Russian agents “caught red-handed dealing with a source on national territory” were expelled by the French, Nicholas Lerner said without elaborating.
At the time, in April 2022, the French Foreign Ministry said a “very long” investigation by the DGSI had uncovered a Russian “covert operation” and that six agents were posing as diplomats and their actions were “anti-national”. Interests”, but without specifying a source in France.
At the time, French Interior Minister Gérald Dormanin, in a published tweet, did not identify a French source on the spies, only praising the DGSI’s “remarkable counterintelligence operation” that “disrupted a network of Russian secret agents.”
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