FBI Assistant Director Michael Driscoll is confident that Russian officials will start switching sides in the war that the Kremlin unleashed against Ukraine. He believes that such "

The Telegraph writes about this, adding that Driscoll, who heads the New York branch of the FBI, gave a rare interview.. In it, he said there was a "

“At times like this, when there is a serious conflict involved, when there are clear divisions among the citizens of Russia, and protests can be seen on the Russian streets, then there is a high probability that someone will want to talk to us about all this and try to do the right thing for the sake of.

This interview with the FBI assistant director will be included in the journalist's new book, The Secret History of the Five Eyes.. The Telegraph has received exclusive access to an excerpt from the upcoming book.

" It happened both to us and to the Russians,” Driscoll added..

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Some Russian officials have already left the power vertical and fled abroad. In particular, this was done by the Kremlin's special representative for relations with international organizations, Anatoly Chubais.. Driscoll, who was personally appointed by FBI Director Christopher Wray, has become one of the most influential representatives of Western security agencies, publicly discussing the possibility of Russian " The Telegraph writes that the FBI is actively trying to recruit members of the Russian diplomatic mission, dissatisfied with the invasion of Ukraine. In particular, targeted advertising comes to mobile phones in the area around the Russian Embassy in Washington.

“Information provided to the FBI by society is the most effective way to deal with threats. If you have information that could help the FBI, please contact us, ”the advertisement reads in Russian..

The publication writes that the purpose of such messages is to take advantage of the discontent or anger of Russian spies due to the invasion of Ukraine.. Counterintelligence experts say if the U.S. intelligence agency succeeds in recruiting new sources, it will provide great opportunities.. Lord Kim Darroch has served as National Security Adviser and British Ambassador to the US for the past decade, and therefore had access to British secrets.. According to him, understanding the motives of the Russian leader was "

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“The real gold will be someone who gives us insider information about what Putin and his very small entourage say to each other, as well as what orders Putin gives to the army and such. And whether we can get that data depends on whether we have a source right in the middle, someone who would personally be in extreme danger.. We had such people in the past,” Darroch said..

During the Cold War, the greatest intelligence breakthroughs were provided by Russian " In particular, a former employee of the USSR Embassy in Canada, Igor Guzenko, conveyed information about the ambitions of Joseph Stalin to build a nuclear arsenal after World War II.. Soviet intelligence agent Oleg Penkovsky exposed the Kremlin's intentions before the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s. And KGB agent Oleg Lyalin passed on information about a network of Soviet spies in the UK and the US in 1971..