The GRU actually only became known in the West because of the occupation of Crimea in 2014 by the so-called "little green men", the GRU special forces without insignia on their uniforms. Then there was the spectacular poison attack on former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018.
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BUCH GRU - Der geheimste Militärgeheimdienst der Welt
The Russian military intelligence service is now known for still relying heavily on human sources despite all the high technology. It only recently emerged that the Chief of General Staff of the Republic of Moldova was apparently a GRU agent.
But the GRU also recently attacked the servers of the SPD and German IT and arms companies in cyberspace. The GRU is one of the most effective and secret intelligence services in the world.
The book, published in 2024, is the first to cover the history of the GRU from its founding in 1918 to the present day. The historian Matthias Uhl was able to draw on previously secret documents from the GRU's legendary archive. He examines espionage operations during the Cold War and in today's Russia - including assassinations in Western Europe and the use of the GRU in the Ukraine war.
- PARTICIPANT: Dr. Matthias Uhl, author, historian
- MODERATING: Prof. Dr. Helmut Müller-Enbergs, political scientist
Free entry
(TALK IN GERMAN)
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Dates
February 2025
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