TY - JOUR TI - Anomalies in the activities of counterintelligence services.  The case of the Republic of Latvia AU - Piasecki, Bolesław TI - Anomalies in the activities of counterintelligence services.  The case of the Republic of Latvia AB - The article is devoted to examining the causes of qualitative and quantitative anomalies in the activity of penetration agents within the security system of the Republic of Latvia and other NATO countries in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author presents selected cases of espionage within the Republic of Latvia and proposes explanations for the discrepancies between this Baltic country and other NATO countries in the number of detected agents. VL - 2023 IS - Numer 29 (15) PY - 2023 SN - 2080-1335 C1 - 2720-0841 SP - 373 EP - 385 DO - 10.4467/20801335PBW.23.034.18776 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-bezpieczenstwa-wewnetrznego/artykul/anomalies-in-the-activities-of-counterintelligence-services-the-case-of-the-republic-of-latvia KW - intelligence KW - counterintelligence KW - espionage KW - agent KW - Latvia