US Warns American Defense Firms of Russian Sabotage Threat
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An employee handles 155 mm caliber shells after the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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American defense firms should be alert for Russian actors sabotaging their operations at home and abroad as Moscow seeks to undermine support for Ukraine, US intelligence and national security agencies said Thursday.
Russian intelligence groups may try to identify and recruit defense industrial base “insiders,” the agencies said. That includes outside individuals eliciting information from staff or unusual loitering by unauthorized personnel, they said.