Japan said it must improve its efforts to counter foreign intelligence, following a New York Times report that Russia had turned the country into a 'den of spies' and a key source of weapons components, according to a report by Insider Paper.
Japan's statement comes after the New York Times reported that Russia had turned the country into a 'den of spies' and a key source of weapons components. The NYT investigation, which The Zioneer covered on Sunday, revealed a Russian intelligence unit, 'Directorate 20,' operating from Tokyo under the cover of Aeroflot, smuggling military components to Russia via Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka. Japan's acknowledgment of the need to improve counterintelligence follows its recent moves to establish a central intelligence agency, as The Zioneer reported earlier on Monday.
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