The media news cycle is gradually shifting around to Porton Down and the analysis of the Salisbury nerve agent. These kind of things all used to be hush-hush, but nowadays even the FSB flaunts its agents. An old Moscow cliche used to be about the use of black Mercedes SUVs by senior Russians (oligarchs and the like).
Last July, FSB (aka KGB) agents took to the streets in a fleet of black SUVs to celebrate their graduation. At one level it could be considered a serious breach of security, or on another level simply a 'don't mess with us' warning to the general populace.
The fleet of expensive Mercedes G-Wagens flaunted their way around central Moscow.
The drivers and passengers noisily drank champagne on the streets. A kind of mob of low-level agents taunting anyone else to 'bring it on'. Kinda where Putin started, actually, although then it was all a lot more clandestine.
Well, with this new found lack of security, I thought I'd take a quick peer around the FSB/SVR offices. Maybe find a chemical lab from which the revised Department Department 12 of Directorate S (Special Operations) could operate. This isn't a unit for mass manufacture of nerve agent, but a more specialised and smaller facility, perhaps close to the spying system's main headquarters?
Looking up FSB would be a bit obvious, but less so to look for the SVR (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki). That's the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation /Слу́жба вне́шней разве́дки, or SVR RF / СВР РФ.
It's not too difficult to find, although its co-ordinates on a geo-search are a little bit off. I wonder why?
It's actually to the south west of Moscow, but still close to the main ring road. This is where the offshore espionage people report.
Look around to see the ever expanding size of the campus, conveniently situated in the woods, but highly visible from the nearby suburb of Yasenevo.
So maybe a tiptoe towards the main entrance? Oops, what's that red flashing light? And those sirens?
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