Russia says foreign spies seeking WMD data: RIA

Russia says foreign spies seeking WMD data: RIA
Erin Norris/January 25, 2008/3:30pm

Spies from other countries in the West and Asia tried to contact the RIA (Russian Intelligence Agency) to try and gather information on nuclear weapons, biological advances, and other nanotechnology that was of value to them. Usually Russia does not comment a lot about catching spies and things of that nature but this time they made a point to release this information. Russia is the second largest holder of nuclear weapons to the U.S.
These spies contacted the FSB in Siberia trying to discover information on some secret projects that were going on in that area performed by the RIA. One person from China and several others from the Asian vacinity were expelled from entering Russia because of the information that they were trying to gain on weapons of mass destruction. Russia's domestic security forces stopped these people from gaining any information on the secret projects that were going on in the area.
The FSB however, would not confirm the report made by the RIA in regards to the spies.
Personally, I think that it is scary to think that people can gain that kind of information and if they had not been caught then they could have used this information to gain more control over weapons of mass destruction and nuclear bombs. It gives me comfort to know that in the report it does say that these spies are caught and Russia just chooses not to report or confirm reports about them a lot. I also wonder however, why the Asian and Western countries would want to know more information or would go as far as to run the risk of being caught and expelled from a country to try and get this information.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4189570