Russia tried to shuffle spies around Europe after they got kicked out, but everyone already knows them | Business Insider

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The EU already knows the identities of Russian spies so well, they keep getting booted.

Russia keeps trying to put its spies into new cities after they get kicked out of European countries.An official told the Washington Post that Russia will keep trying anyway, likely out of desperation.Russia isn't letting up on its efforts to spy on its European neighbors, a Western security officialBut since everyone knows who their spies are, Russia is struggling to move them around to new assignments after the operatives get kicked out of countries in Europe, the Post reported.

Russia is infamous for its extensive web of international spies, but European leaders have been rooting out the networks; British intelligence said last year thatThe senior Western security official, who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously, said that his country has been sharing the identities of these spies with officials from other EU countries.

Russia keeps trying to reinsert those same spies into new stations, likely out of desperation and in a possible attempt to identify weak points in EU coordination, the Post reported. But, the Western official said that none of Russia's attempts to reposition its spies have been successful, to his knowledge.

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