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Permission for missiles based on Kremlin's plans for Baltic

Polish defiance built on British intel



Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has played a role in providing Poland with information allowing the Warsaw government, which came to power last November, to let America base its "Son of Star Wars" missile defense system in the country.

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The Polish deal has infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin and damaged his carefully laid plans for his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, to develop Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe. Poland's decision to allow the defense system to be sited on its soil is a bold defiance of Moscow and could yet have far reaching consequences in the struggle between Russia and the West that has increasing echoes of the Cold War. It has emerged that MI6 provided Polish intelligence with highly secret plans of the Kremlin' intentions to dominate the entire Baltic region. The source of the intelligence is described as "good" -- MI6 speak for a well-placed mole, probably within the Kremlin. Suspicions of a mole have been publicly aired by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin. "We know British intelligence has repeatedly tried to recruit agents in our government," he said. "It was sufficient to tip the scales when Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, agreed for the missile system to be in place by the end of the year," confirmed a senior MI6 analyst in London. Ten interceptor missiles will be installed at a former World War Two airbase at Redzikow in the north west of Poland. The Pentagon has insisted the missiles form no threat to Russia -- but are meant to defend Europe and Israel against missile attacks from Iran or Syria, or what Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, has called: "Emerging threats from other rogue states or terrorists." Putin has told Russian voters as they go to the polls this Sunday that MI6's intervention is another move to threaten Russia's security -- and that his successor has "all my support to deal with matters accordingly." On the eve of the election, General Nikolai Solovtsov, the head of Russia's missile forces, has reiterated that Russia will aim its warheads at Poland if American missiles are sited there. And Vadim Lukov, Russia's ambassador to Belgium, has raised the threat level still higher by saying: "Poland and its Allies in London and Washington could trigger a nuclear holocaust." "Poland is just 6.5 minutes from Moscow in terms of a missile's strike," Lukov added. In return for placing its interceptor missiles in Poland, Washington has promised to give the Warsaw government $2.5 billion in aid. But this has done little to soothe the fears of the Poles that their country will become the frontline of a nuclear confrontation between Russia and the West. To calm the Polish fears, the U.S. is prepared to strengthen Poland's short-to-medium range air defenses by providing missiles capable of destroying incoming bombs. Meantime, MI6 agents in Moscow are continuing to feed back information to London about Dmitry Medvedev when he comes to power on Sunday. Gordon Thomas is the author of the newly published Secrets & Lies: A History of CIA Mind Control and Germ Warfare (Octavo Editions, USA) and the forthcoming Inside British Intelligence (JR Books, UK). Gordon Thomas, is the author of Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, the new edition of which was published in January 2007. He specialises in international intelligence matters. Older articles by Gordon Thomas

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