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US 'spy' Ryan Fogle expelled after CIA refused to stop recruiting, say Russians
Russia's decision to expose and expel a suspected spy working undercover at the US embassy in Moscow came after the CIA failed to stop its recruitment efforts following the previously unrevealed expulsion of a US spy earlier this year, a Russian intelligence officer has alleged.
Speaking to state-run television, an anonymous officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Russia had expelled an "operative of the Moscow rezidentura" in January, using Soviet-era spy slang. "We asked our American colleagues not to continue such acts in relation to Russian citizens. Nonetheless, they didn't listen to us," the officer said, his face and voice masked for television.
The revelation came one day after Moscow's widely publicised detention of Ryan Fogle, whom it accused of being a CIA agent working undercover as the third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
The Russian foreign ministry declared Fogle persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country "in the shortest possible time".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/russia-american-expelled-cia-espionage
Speaking to state-run television, an anonymous officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Russia had expelled an "operative of the Moscow rezidentura" in January, using Soviet-era spy slang. "We asked our American colleagues not to continue such acts in relation to Russian citizens. Nonetheless, they didn't listen to us," the officer said, his face and voice masked for television.
The revelation came one day after Moscow's widely publicised detention of Ryan Fogle, whom it accused of being a CIA agent working undercover as the third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
The Russian foreign ministry declared Fogle persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country "in the shortest possible time".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/russia-american-expelled-cia-espionage
