The Irish military and security services have identified a politician in the Oireachtas who has been recruited by Russian intelligence as an agent of influence and whose clandestine connections to Moscow remain intact, The Sunday Times can reveal.
The existence of the agent, whom we are calling “Cobalt” for legal reasons, is one of the state’s most closely guarded secrets. The situation is known only to a handful of people in the country.
Sergey Prokopiev, a Russian spy, worked as a counsellor at his country’s embassy in Orwell Road, Dublin, from 2019 to 2022. He was in charge of the intelligence operation that recruited the politician, who operates as an agent of influence inside parliament.
Prokopiev was among four Russian diplomats who were declared personae non gratae by the Department of Foreign Affairs two years ago for being undeclared intelligence officers. At the same time 600 of Moscow’s diplomats were expelled from embassies across the West as a response to Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.
The alarm was raised after Cobalt and Prokopiev met outside Dublin. Their conversation was monitored.
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Fuck me is there no organisation on the fecking island not riddled with double agents? Have to keep an eye on the girl scouts at this rate!
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