Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores Moscow's Hotel President, where a Ukrainian intelligence informant recently infiltrated a major defence technology trade fair. The venue itself is historically closely connected with Russian security services.
Overlooking the Moskva river, the Russian capital's imposing President Hotel was the setting for a recent successful human intelligence operation carried out by Ukraine's SBU. The intelligence agency managed to bypass security checks to infiltrate an informant at the annual artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics exhibition held from 12 to 14 March in the cold, marble halls of this massive architectural example of declining Soviet power.
This visitor enabled the SBU to collect documents and take
