Espionage
While a terrorist incident is highly visible, espionage cases are
not. In 1982, ISD exposed and expelled two Russian spies for
espionage activities in Singapore. One was Anatoly Alexeyvich
Larkin, a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) officer, who attempted
to cultivate a SAF army officer holding the rank of 2nd Lt 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 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.
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