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appleannie1943

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Wed Nov 15, 2017, 11:05 AM Nov 2017

U.S. Hires Company With K.G.B. Link to Guard Moscow Embassy [View all]

Washington has hired a private Russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by Mr. Putin’s former K.G.B. boss, an 82-year-old veteran spy who spent 25 years planting agents in Western security services and hunting down their operatives.

Under a $2.8 million no-bid contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions in Washington, security guards at the American Embassy in Moscow and at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be provided by Elite Security Holdings, a company closely linked to the former top K.G.B. figure, Viktor G. Budanov, a retired general who rose through the ranks to become head of Soviet counterintelligence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/europe/embassy-moscow-kgb.html?_r=0

Geee. What could go wrong there?

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