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NATO to open counter-espionage hub in Poland

NATO will open a counter-espionage hub in Poland by year's end aimed at expanding the alliance's intelligence-gathering capabilities as it faces "threats from the east and south", a Polish defence ministry spokesman said Monday.

A counter-intelligence officer from Poland will be the first head of the new facility in the southern city of Krakow focused on joint exercises in "identifying and countering intelligence threats", Colonel Jacek Sonta told AFP.

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