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Spymaster | Austria
Allies remain wary of Omar Haijawi-Pirchner's reformed intelligence service

Published on 30.09.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 min

Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, Director of the DSN. © Alex Halada/AFP

Vienna is still known as the "city of spies", despite the Austrian authorities' attempt to completely overhaul the country's intelligence service, which is headed by Omar Haijawi-Pirchner. The service has long been associated with counter-espionage operations against the Russian services, and its European and American counterparts remain unconvinced by its efforts to reform.

Officers within Austria's Directorate for National Security and Intelligence, the DSN, headed by the 42-year-old Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, are continuing operations in Vienna, but are under close surveillance from their allied services. Due to the presence of the International Atomic Energy Agency's headquarters in the city (IAEA) the Austrian capital

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