Interesting report that supports earlier posted links of Putin and Russian intentions.
BrassC and Mende are also on record long before the events of last year.
Of course-- if it is accurate and there is now numerous sources saying it is--it makes a mockery of all Putin and the Kremlin's claims--let alone make the forum pro-Russia regardless brigade look completely ridiculous.( I did not need this report to think that--but surely even they can see how hollow their comments are) !!
Czech intelligence predicted Russian annexation of CrimeaReport cites increasing weakness in Ukraine as Russia strengthened its forcesPrague, Jan 3 (ČTK) The Czech military intelligence service (VZ) reliably predicted the 2014 developments in Ukraine including Russia's plan to annex Crimea, daily Lidové noviny (LN) writes, citing "two trustworthy sources from the security community."
The Czech public knows the VZ mainly as an infamous protagonist of the mid-2013 scandal of Jana Nagyová, mistress [and now wife] of the then prime minister Petr Nečas and head of his office, who is suspected of abusing the VZ for illegal spying on the then Ms Necačová, LN writes.
Nevertheless, the VZ could also boast of successful achievements, if it its operations were not classified.
The two sources told LN that several VZ spies were awarded for their work recently.
"They were presented with a decoration and financial reward," one of the sources said, adding that the VZ had reliably predicted the developments in Ukraine, including Crimea.
The Defense Ministry, in charge of the VZ, would not comment on the affair and on the VZ's concrete operations.
"As far as Ukraine is concerned, the VZ naturally deals with the situation," Petr Sýkora, from the ministry's press department, told LN.
The VZ, too, declined to comment on its officers' achievements.
Andor ándor, who headed the Czech military intelligence in 2001-2002, praised the VZ for keeping silent about its work. The information about bestowing of awards on VZ officers goes only to a narrow group of people, he said.
"The defense minister can bestow a minister's decoration on VZ officers. In this case, it was probably a cross of merit, which has three degrees," Sandor told the paper.
The decoration of the officers is in a striking contrast with the situation at NATO's November 2014 summit in Wales, where Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt ironically asked Czech President Milo Zeman whether the Czechs have any intelligence service at all.
He reacted to Zeman's words that Prague would demand clear evidence to prove Russia's military presence in eastern Ukraine.
Zeman, as well as Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka, are among the addressees of the VZ's classified reports.
ándor, who headed the VZ when Zeman was prime minister (1998-2002), said Zeman thoroughly studied and positively assessed the intelligence reports.
In its report for 2012, in a part released to the public, the VZ wrote that its agents focused on Russia's growing power appetite and the internal weakening of Ukraine, LN writes.
While Moscow continued to modernize the Russian army, Ukraine's armed faced disintegration, the VZ wrote.
"The result is a declining number of the [Ukrainian] troops and continuous aging of their equipment, which will have a negative impact on Ukraine's defense capability," the VZ wrote in its report for 2012, cited by LN.
In its latest report, focusing on developments in 2013, the VZ wrote that Russia's "effort to interfere in the internal political situation [in post-Soviet states] was most successful in Ukraine, whose leadership in late 2013 change
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