Russia: British used 'rock' to spy

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russia's internal security service has accused four British Embassy employees of conducting a high-tech spying operation that included using an "advanced electronic spy gadget" in a fake rock, news agencies reported.

"An electronic cache from the British intelligence service was seized by counterintelligence," Interfax quoted Federal Security Service (FSB) chief spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko as saying Monday.

Interfax reported that the FSB had found the "spy gadget" installed inside the fake rock and that the British agents used it to reach their Russian contacts.

The FSB found a second such gadget and said the British had retrieved another, the Russian news agency reported. Interfax said a Russian citizen had been detained and had confessed to espionage.

Ignatchenko said the situation involving the Britons would be "resolved at a political level," according to the Russian news agency.

"It is most important that we caught them having contact with agents and funding a number of non-profit organizations (NGOs)," Ignatchenko said. "We are investigating the goals of this funding."
full story at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/23/uk.russia.row/index.html

yea you have to watch them non profit org's... how uncapitlistic even for russia... maybe it was because of the Moscow Helsinki Group is a leading Russian human rights group which has been a persistent critic of President Vladimir Putin?????? hummm..