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By Mark Galeotti director of consultancy Mayak Intelligence and honorary professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies The first ever joint public event by the heads of the CIA and Britain’s SIS – better known as MI6 – saw them address a wide range of topics, from Iran and AI to, predictably enough, Russia. MI6’s Sir Richard Moore ruefully observed that “Russian intelligence services have gone a bit feral,” as they step up a campaign of sabotage and subversion that the CIA’s Bill Burns called “reckless and dangerous.” It is certainly impossible to deny that this has been an escal…

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