Apparently Ukraine's Intelligence Agencies Have A Loyalty Problem

Image: Security Service of Ukraine

Wall Street Journal: How Russian Spy Games Are Sabotaging Ukraine’s Intelligence Agency

Ukraine’s security agency, the SBU, has been riddled with Russian spies, sympathizers and turncoats

KIEV, Ukraine—When Moscow-backed separatists were starting their war in east Ukraine last spring, the country’s main security agency sent a covert team to capture a rebel leader.

But word of the classified mission leaked out, and three Ukrainian operatives were themselves captured and thrown into a separatist jail. Rebels stripped them to their underwear, bound their wrists and blindfolded them, then paraded them in front of Russian journalists.

WNU Editor: Since the start of last year's revolution, the Ukraine government has gone out of its way to purge it's ministries and military of anyone that they suspect has pro-Russian leanings .... which basically means anyone who is a Russian Ukrainian. But apparently .... Ukraine's spy agencies are still a problem.