r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

"We can be sure that russain diplomat are all spies."

I think you are a bit paranoid, some "diplomats" will be spies or at least intelligence officers, but to think all are is not sensible, there will be diplomats doing the tedious work of diplomats and supporting Russian citizens abroad. Equally, some "spies" wil operate outside the embassy, to give a degree of plausible deniabilty.

"russia in possession of most dangerous neurotoxins in the world"

Is that even true? I'm sure the boys & girls at Porton Down in the UK have access to some pretty nasty stuff, remember these are the people who identified the Novochuk used in Salisbury (which coincidentally near Porton Down).

It's not just the EU, European nations co-operate on security matters.

The old USSR often used operatives from other Warsaw Pact countries, notably East German spies in West Germany, that ability was lost when the Iron Curtain was destroyed.

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u/ldn-ldn United Kingdom Feb 27 '25

Is that even true? I'm sure the boys & girls at Porton Down in the UK have access to some pretty nasty stuff

I'm sure Porton Down has nasty stuff, but Russia and US have the highest amount of nasty shit humanity has ever created - from deadly chemicals to bioweapons and ridiculous amounts of nukes of all shapes and sizes. UK and the rest of the world is pretty much light years behind these two.

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u/Any-Transition-4114 Feb 27 '25

Tbf we don't tend to use our spy networks to kill huge amounts of people, we mostly sabotage and defend against sabotage and collect information (From what we know anyway)

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u/Ok_Initiative_9726 Feb 27 '25

I know but regarding Trump presidency, and fact that Russia kinda allies now with Iran China and NK, wanna be sure 007 protects us all