RT reports:
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow
Russia’s counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced. The agent was operating under guise of career diplomat.
The FSB Public Relations Center has announced that the person detained is Ryan Christopher Fogle, the third secretary of the Political Section of the American embassy in Moscow.
The agency stressed that Christopher had special technical equipment, printed instructions for the Russian citizen being recruited, a large sum of money and means to change the person’s appearance.
The detainee was delivered to the FSB receiving office where he has been questioned and after all the necessary procedures he has been handed over to representatives of the US embassy in Moscow.
The website of the American embassy in Russia informs that its Political Section is engaged in “bringing to the attention of the Russian government the US position on the issues of foreign policy and security.” The section’s other task is to “inform Washington about the main provisions of the foreign and defense policy of Russia,” as well as Russian domestic political life.
Ryan C Fogle, 3d secretary of US embassy, was detained in Moscow by the Russian counterintelligence agency (FSB)
Disguise allegedly used by Ryan Fogle (FSB)
Ryan Fogle inside FSB office (FSB)
The one-page letter to a would-be recruit proposes a payment of US$100,000 for an interview to discuss possible cooperation and promises up to $1 million a year payment if the contact agrees to supply the American side with the information it demands.
The letter also contains a step-by-step instruction how to create a new Gmail account that would be used for future contacts. The instruction repeatedly stresses not to present any real contact information, like phone numbers, email or home addresses.
Instruction allegedly used to recruit Russian intelligence officer with offers of money and means of conducting the conspiracy (FSB)
It is advised not to use personal handheld mobile devices and notebooks for registration, proposing to use an internet café to go through the procedure. Another option, the instruction says, is to buy a new device especially for contacts and pay for it in cash, with the expenses to be reimbursed.
Once a new Gmail account is created, the recruit should write a letter to ‘unbacggdA@gmail.com and wait one week for a reply.
“Thank you for reading this. We look forward to working with you in the nearest future. Your friends,” the instruction ends.
US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFaul refused to comment on the detention of his subordinate for espionage activities.
On his Twitter account he simply wrote ‘no’ answering a question about Ryan Fogle.
But tomorrow he will definitely have to have an answer to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he has been summoned to give an explanation concerning the incident.
Ryan Fogle’s pass to the US embassy (FSB)
Money allegedly used by Fogle for recruiting (FSB)
Ryan Fogle’s diplomatic pass (FSB)
Is this fake? And why the letter thought they preferred to leave no paper trail or trace, and what’s with the gmail account? Wouldn’t that be intercepted? Wouldn’t the Chinese method of using lots of middle men gone better.
This has got to be the dumbest CIA clown yet. Carrying all that crap with him he might as well hung a sign on his back. Probably watched too many James Bond movies and thought that’s the way to do it. The CIA must really be desperate to send out punks like this to do their dirty work.
It’s never helpful when people choose to graphically ID our people, whether it be through the mainstream media or blogs such as yours.
Help protect United States Citizens.
a Friend.
@Anonymous1: No, this is real. They use gmail because even though it can be intercepted because traffic from one non-descript and anonymous account to another equally non-descript and anonymous account is undetectable in the huge volume of daily emails. Its like posting diamonds with the regular mail: it can be safer than using a top-level carrier. Besides, make no mistake, Google *IS* in bed with Uncle Sam :-)
@Anonymous2: Yeah, he looks pretty pathetic, doesn’t he. The CIA has always been a SANFU-prone agency. I know for a fact that the Russians have far more respect (and apprehension) about the British MI6 than about the CIA which is heavily politicized and run by bureaucrats. Besides, the Americans were never good at human intelligence, their favorite thing is technical intelligence.
Anonymous3: LOL! You are making a funny (and highly parochial) assumption here: that I am myself a US citizen. Guess what buddy, I am not :-P. That’s for starters. Second: CIA agents are no “my people” to me. You can think of them as “your people”, but you come across as rather obnoxious when you think that we – the rest of mankind – own them anything. We owe them diddly-squat. And, last, while I sincerely wish no US citizen any harm just for being Americans (quit the opposite, in fact), my first concern is the help protect the REST OF THE PLANET *from* the malfeasance of United States Citizens.
Buddy – wake up – you are living in a dream world. The fact is that the American Dream is a Planetary Nightmare…
Once the USA stops being a planetary empire and becomes a normal *country* again, we will welcome you back into the community of civilized mankind. But until then, don’t expect the rest of us to love you as much as you clearly love yourselves…
The Saker
Does this make me Anonymous4?
And see? I am not using a gmail account to post from :)
You said to Anonymous3: “Guess what buddy, I am not [an American citizen].”
I thought you were American (or had been).
I must be getting my disillusioned bloggers mixed up. Doesnt really matter, come here to round out my perspective.
The blogger I have in mind in his youth was the gung-ho government
worker type assigned overseas with square-cut hair and a member of the John Wayne fan club (figuratively speaking :O ). Then you got to see how things really worked in the world…
How about a refresher? Who might you be?
Signed, former Republican, former independent, former voter, former believer in a world with “good guys and bad guys”.
Anonymous5: Does this make me Anonymous4?
Nope, unless you use some kind of handle/nickname which can be carried over from comment to comment, you are not Anonymous5…
The blogger I have in mind in his youth was the gung-ho government
worker type assigned overseas with square-cut hair and a member of the John Wayne fan club (figuratively speaking :O ). Then you got to see how things really worked in the world…
Close, but not quite. I was young and dumb and naive, I did believe in “the system” and I though I was serving *my* country until the war in Bosnia showed me that my country was serving *your* country. At which point my worldview crash, followed by the crash of my entire career. Now I think of myself as a “recovering ex-military analyst”. But your country I never served, at least not deliberately.
How about a refresher? Who might you be?
I made the blog “kinda anonymous” (I am not hiding really hard) for two reasons: not to draw the attention of my former employers and to keep my personality away from what matters: the issues. But all you need to know about me is on the first page where it clearly says: The European Saker – in his own words: I am a ‘legal alien’ currently living in the Imperial Homeland. This really says it all ;-)
BTW – I could very easily get an Imperial Citizenship. I pride myself on the fact that I turned it down :-P
As for the world, it is indeed in a dire need of good guys, but there are a few out there and, besides, some or better than others.
Cheers!
The Saker