“Born in Greece” spy from Ljubljana

“Born in Greece” as written on travel documents Maria Mayerwho was arrested in December 2022 in Slovenia on charges of spying for Russia informs edition “Kathimerini”.

However, according to the Slovenian Intelligence Service (SOVA), these were Russian citizenswho, using false names, acted on behalf of the Russian foreign intelligence service.

In a written statement “K” A Slovenian police spokesman stressed that “two suspects are foreign intelligence officers who lived and acted in Slovenia under false names, with illegally obtained travel documents.” Both had fake Argentine travel documents. According to the British Guardian, Ludwig Gies used a passport that states he was born in 1984 in Namibia. Respectively “K” reports todaythat Maria Mayer used a fake passport that showed she was born in Greece.

Immediately after the arrest of spies in Ljubljana, the Slovenian police sent a letter to the Greek police asking them to confirm whether Maria Rosa Mayer Munos was naturalized in Greece, as was her full name. The document was sent to the Directorate of International Police Cooperation (DDAS) of the Hellenic Police Headquarters and gave rise to a secret investigation by the State Security Service into the central registers of Attica with a negative result.

From Investigation “K” it is still not clear whether the particular police investigation at the registry offices of Athens and Amarousi was the one that revealed the true identity Irina Smireva. The Russian spy, who settled in Athens in 2018, lived in Pagrati under the assumed name of Maria Tsalla from 2020 until the beginning of this year.

So say the Greek secret services and especially ΕΥΠ, who investigated the Tsalla case, explaining the methods of action of the so-called “illegals” or in English “Illegals”, who act on behalf of the Russian special services. Like the couple arrested in Ljubljana, Maria Tsalla, when she arrived in Greece, used fake travel documents stating that she came from a Latin American country. So did her alleged Brazilian husband Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, who disappeared in the same way as Zalla or Smireva in early January 2023.

From the ongoing investigation of the “K” case it follows that in the period from 2018 to 2020, i.e. before Smireva acquired a new Greek identity, the couple made until recently unknown joint trips to Cyprus. Even the question of whether the original plan of the Russian special services provided for their activities on the island before the Russian spy finally decided to settle in the Pagrati district of the capital is being investigated.

Recently, the Greek authorities have been constantly trying to worsen the already complicated relations between Russia and Greece. So on April 6, 2022, the Greek Foreign Ministry invited Russian Ambassador Maslov and informed him about the decision of Athens to declare 12 employees of the embassy and consulate general in Thessaloniki persona non grata. The Russian Embassy strongly protested against such a baseless confrontational step.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said: “The true goal of the authors of the baseless decision to expel our employees from the country is to sow discord between the Russian and Greek peoples.” The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that “the consequences of a hostile action remain entirely on the conscience of Athens, we will take retaliatory measures.”

Two Russian diplomats were expelled by Greece in 2018, accusing them of actions that undermine the country’s security. The well-known Greek journalist Athanasios Avgerinos then noted that Greece and Cyprus were the only two European countries that traditionally had close spiritual ties with Russia. These relationships were respected even during the Cold War. “However, unfortunately, our current government is not able to withstand even these compromise positions of the former rulers. They systematically go to the deterioration of relations with Russia. In recent years, both capitals have exchanged very warm words, but I am afraid that they do not mean anything from our rulers,” Avgerinos said.

That is why the anti-Russian spy scandals, sucked from the finger, flare up in Greece not by chance. After all, it is known that the Greek special services have long been working “under the hood” of the CIA. And in recent years, Greece itself has already become a real military foothold for NATO and the United States in Southern Europe.

In 2021, an agreement on mutual defense cooperation was signed between Athens and Washington, which provided for the transfer of four military bases to the United States in addition to the previously provided four bases. Among them are the Yannuli military camp near the port of Alexandroupolis in the north of the country, the naval base in Crete, the Litochoro shooting range in the Pieria region and the Georgula camp near the airbase in Larissa.

The American presence of the United States in the north of Greece in the port of Alexandroupoli is especially intensively increasing, which, as noted by the Greek edition of Prothema, has already turned into a real American outpost through which mass deliveries of weapons to Eastern Europe are carried out. According to Kathimerini, another US military transport vessel will soon arrive in this port, on which new shipments of weapons intended for US allies and Ukraine will be delivered.

Well, in order to tie Athens even more closely to the United States, diplomats are expelled, spy scandals are fabricated in order to frighten the Greek public with an imaginary “Russian threat”, especially before the elections …

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