MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Federal Security Service said Tuesday it has exposed 27 foreign intelligence officers and 89 Russian agents this year.
"Of this number, one career intelligence officer and eight agents were caught red-handed," FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev said. "Twenty-one foreign nationals involved in intelligence operations were deported from Russia."
He said the FSB recently caught a Lithuanian military intelligence courier in the act and handed him over to Lithuanian diplomatic authorities.
Patrushev said the FSB foiled more than 870,000 hacker attacks on the Internet so far this year, including 120,000 attacks against the Russian president's official Web site.
The FSB foiled over 300 terrorist attacks in 2006, specifically defusing more than 60 activated explosive devices and seizing 200 more from arms caches.
He said the FSB prevented 45 billion rubles [$1.7 billion] in damages to the state in 2006, adding that it also recovered about 1.3 billion rubles [$49 million] for the state treasury.
