Event 81

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "FI-RU"
  ],
  "category": "Espionage",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Direct citations from Finland's security agency and multiple corroborating quotes from officials in the article support the assessment.",
  "countries": [
    "Finland",
    "Russia"
  ],
  "country": "Finland",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "The Finnish Security Police (SUPO) has stated that Russia is attempting to recruit asylum seekers entering Finland for intelligence gathering. While this is not widespread, authorities highlight it as a common Russian intelligence tactic. SUPO says pressure or offers of cooperation are used on newly arrived migrants.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-01-16T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Finnish Security Police statement on Russian intelligence methods targeting asylum seekers.",
    "Specific mention of recruitment attempts at Finland's eastern border.",
    "SUPO's clarification that the activity is not widespread but is a known tactic of Russian services."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "The Finnish Security Police (SUPO) has stated that Russia is trying to recruit asylum seekers for intelligence activities.",
    "SUPO emphasized that this is not a widespread, but common method of Russian special services.",
    "\"A person can be persuaded to cooperate in various ways, for example, by exerting pressure or using a request for cooperation to the conditions of leaving the country, or by promising financial benefits...\"",
    "Last week, 15 people illegally crossed Finland's eastern border over rough terrain and applied for asylum.",
    "According to the Border Guard Service, there may be thousands of people in Russia in the territories adjacent to Finland who are ready to cross the border illegally."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Spy Recruitment",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Finnish Security Police statement on Russian intelligence methods targeting asylum seekers.",
            "Specific mention of recruitment attempts at Finland's eastern border.",
            "SUPO's clarification that the activity is not widespread but is a known tactic of Russian services."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "FI"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Finnish intelligence services: Russia is trying to recruit asylum seekers as spies",
  "location_text": "Finnish eastern border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_81_1763915426_4df17ee7.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Spy Recruitment",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://unn.ua/en/news/finnish-intelligence-services-russia-is-trying-to-recruit-asylum-seekers-as-spies"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Finland's security services warn that Russia is attempting to recruit newly-arrived asylum seekers as intelligence assets.",
  "url": "https://unn.ua/en/news/finnish-intelligence-services-russia-is-trying-to-recruit-asylum-seekers-as-spies"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "FI",
  "Attack Type": "Spy Recruitment",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "FI-RU",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "FI",
  "Date": "16-Jan-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Spy Recruitment",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "????Russia is trying to recruit asylum seekers coming to ??Finland as its spies.",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://unn.ua/en/news/finnish-intelligence-services-russia-is-trying-to-recruit-asylum-seekers-as-spies",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}