On July 15, 2014, a text signed by Vladimir Kolpakov "War in Putin's spy triad" appeared on the Russian website warfiles.ru. The article was rapidly removed. It states that **there is simply a fierce secret war on financial flows between Russian peculiar services, and Vladimir Putin has consistently destroyed GRU's top personnel since the very beginning of his arrival at the Kremlin**. The author states that, "although a fewer years ago with the aid of the FSB the GRU was weakened, Lubianka believes that this is not enough". The text besides reveals a list of 79 Russian military intelligence officers working undercover in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Journalists from the Russian investigative service The Insider obtained individual data of another 305 GRU officers. Retired by General FSB Valery Malevanny in an interview with Sobesednik.ru, he stated that "*** training and training of intelligence officers is an costly pleasure**. Operations under diplomatic cover are being prepared for at least 5 years, and an illegal intelligence officer - ten. **The cost of training a military attaché is $5 million and “illegal” is $10 million. During the investigation into the leak, it was revealed that Vladimir Kolpakov did not be and the article was sent from an email address registered in Moldova. According to the Russian media, which described the matter, the origin of these events was the war between the GRU and the “happiness” of FSB and SWR.
