Exclusive: Expelled spies included Russians suspected of tracking compatriots who resettled in US
Source: CNN
By Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN
Updated 1:15 AM ET, Thu April 26, 2018
Washington (CNN) - Among the dozens of Russian diplomats the US expelled last month were suspected spies who US law enforcement and intelligence officials believe were tracking Russian defectors and their families who had resettled in the US, officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
In at least one instance, suspected Russian spies were believed to be casing someone who was part of a CIA program that provided new identities to protect resettled Russians, the officials said.
That episode and other US intelligence raised concerns that the Russians were preparing to target Russian émigrés in the US labeled by the Kremlin as traitors or enemies, law enforcement and intelligence officials said.
The CIA declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/25/politics/expelled-spies-russians-tracking-defectors/index.html
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)or else
FailureToCommunicate
(14,019 posts)Why don't they just rename The White House The Red House? Or Kremlin on the Potomac?
Sheesh.
DBoon
(22,395 posts)nt
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Nitram
(22,845 posts)a traitor to Russia. Defined as, "one whose loyalty is not to put Putin first, and the Russian people second." Remind you of someone? They die in hotel rooms, they commit suicide, they get poisoned.