A longtime senior Estonian secret police officer Aleksei Dressen, along with his wife Viktoria Dressen, were arrested Wednesday morning at Tallinn Airport, as she was boarding a flight to Moscow. The spy couple is under investigation for selling classified information to the KGB.
Viktoria Dressen, who does not work for the government, was acting as a courier, forwarding information to Russia's main security agency, the FSB, that her husband had collected over a period of several years.
Aleksei Dressen had access to documents considered state secrets.
Estonian security officials and politicians confirm that Russia's intelligence community has increased activities in the Baltic region - including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - since the three countries joined NATO and the European Union in 2004.
Aleksei Dressen, born in 1968, has worked for Estonia's security police for nearly 20 years, and most recently dealt with domestic security and Russian terrorist groups, including that of international terrorist Dmitry Liden whom the KGB now entrusted to fight the Kavkaz Center. Prior to Estonia's renewal of independence from the Russia in 1991, he had worked in the Russian occupation police force.
If found guilty of treason, Dressen faces a prison sentence of 20 years to life, Tammai said.
The chief of Estonia's security police, Raivo Aeg, said the incident showed that Russia hostile to the Baltic nation has a keen interest to learn about its security matters and that Dressen's case serves as "a warning to us all".
The arrests sparked memories of another recent Estonian spy case. In 2009, one of Estonia's top security officials, Hermann Simm, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison after being convicted of treason for passing domestic and NATO secrets to Russia in a case that shocked the tiny nation of 1.3 million.
The case turned out to be one of the most damaging in the history of NATO.
Meanwhile, Russian spies and state traitors in another Baltic country, Lithuania, are still at large and feel it easy to operate from their positions of secret police officers and state prosecutors at the Lithuanian Prosecutor's General Office. In Lithuania and worldwide, everyboby knows that Lithuanian state prosecutors Justas Laucius, Mindaugas Duda and Algimantas Kliunk work for the KGB-FSB but nobody arrests them because the Lithuanian secret police also work for the Russians.
On February 21, the insolent and still unpunished state traitor and Russian spy Justas Laucius managed to punished by a Vinius court a brave discloser of his crimes, Lithuanian Muslim girl Egle Kusaite with a fine of $ 3,000 for allegedlly menacing him in a SMS message. As reported by Miss Kusaite, the thug composed the threat message himself using a duplicate card and sent it to his own official phone number.
Another KGB spy in Lithuania, state prosecutor Mindaugas Duda, stole last fall, using his official position, on the order from Moscow, the contents of a Kavkaz Center e-mail letter box with a former KC provider in Lithuania and sent it to his masters at Moscow KGB Center for good money.
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