The Standing Committee on the Control of Intelligence and Security Services (Committee R) has opened an investigation into possible “infiltrations” by foreign secret services. About twenty files are examined, some of which concern Russia, report Echo and De Tijd on Saturday.
This file was opened a few months ago by the R. Committee, after it heard of possible infiltration by the Belgian intelligence services. About twenty cases are said to be under study, fifteen of which concern the military intelligence services SGRS (general intelligence and security service) and about five the State Security Service. “An investigation has been launched into this problem,” merely confirms the clerk of Committee R, Wouter De Ridder.
An investigation is already underway at the federal prosecutor’s office on the relationship between a collaborator of military intelligence with a woman of Serbian nationality suspected of having worked for the Russians in 2016, recalls Echo. “Like all intelligence services, we are aware that one can never completely exclude the existence of infiltration attempts,” said Ingrid Van Daele, spokesman for the State Security Service.
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