Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service. Now he’s going after its government

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1. More to read:

   [How Putin captured Austria’s intelligence service](https://ghall.com.ua/2024/05/24/politico-kak-putin-zahvatil-razvedyvatelnuyu-sluzhbu-avstrii/)

   See also: [**Seddeutsche Zeitung (Germany): The search of the agent of the GRU has been on the problems of the Austrian special services**](https://ghall.com.ua/2021/01/26/suddeutsche-zeitung-germaniya-rozysk-agenta-gru-ogolil-problemy-avstrijskih-spetssluzhb/)

2. Solution: Dissolve the intelligence service’s powers by political congress.

   Create a new agency using Secret service expertise from the EU.

3. Much as I love Austria, it has always had a significant fascist element in its population. The current situation has undertones of WW2, when around 1 million people (out of 6 million population) explicitly supported the nazis, and probably many more implicitly. i don’t know why, but a sizeable portion of the population is susceptible to far right propaganda and relatively easy pickings for the Kremlin at present.

4. This is basically what Russia is trying to do with the FBI. Discredit it, have it dissolved by the GOP and reformed under “politically agreeable” leadership.

5. Austria was a mistake.