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Countering Threats----
Over the years, ISD and its predecessor, Special Branch
, have dealt with many threats to Singapores internal stability,
security and sovereignty:
Communism
Communal Challenge
Terrorism
Espionage
2.
While a terrorist incident is highly visible, espionage cases
are not. In 1982, the ISD exposed and expelled two Russian spies
for espionage activities in Singapore. One was Anatoly Alexeyevich
Larkin, a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) officer, who attempted
to cultivate a SAF army officer holding the rank of 2nd Lieutenant
to conduct espionage against the SAF.
The other was Alexander Alexandrovich Bondarev, another Soviet
military intelligence officer, who was sent to take over a Soviet
spy network which had a local agent working for it since the
1970s.
More recent cases include the ones when the ISD arrested two
persons in 1997 and another 4 persons in 1998 under the ISA for
involvement in espionage and foreign subversive activities
prejudicial to the security of Singapore.
Of the two persons arrested in 1997, one was a male Singapore
Permanent Resident who was a deep-cover operative of a foreign
intelligence service. He had used the other, a female Singaporean,
as a collaborator.
Of the four Singapore citizens detained in 1998, three were
controlled agents for a foreign intelligence agency. One of them
recruited the fourth person to collect intelligence on and to
subvert a local community organisation.
All six of them have been released.
3.Next time when news of espionage released,the spy
would be released or deported!
