Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Mark Galeotti: Putin’s secret weapon
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, on June 16, 2014.
There are two ways an espionage agency can prove its worth to the government it serves. Either it can be truly useful (think:locating a most-wanted terrorist), or it can engender fear, dislike, and vilification from its rivals (think: being named a major threat in congressional testimony). But when a spy agency does both, its worth is beyond question.
