The CIA has crossed a certain ‘red line’ in professional ethics of intelligence as American spy Ryan Fogle attempted to recruit a Russian agent, an FSB operative told RT.
“In case with Fogle, the CIA crossed the red line and we had
no choice but to react observing official procedures,” a
representative of the Russian Security Service, the FSB, said in an
interview with RT.
The spy story broke earlier this week after it was
made public that Fogle — who had worked under the guise of a third
secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow — was detained after being
caught red-handed trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer
for the CIA. Following the incident he was expelled from
Russia.
As early as by autumn 2011, the FSB was aware that the CIA was
pursuing a goal to get an informer within the Russian special
services, the agent told RT.
“Those were not one-off events, which caused our
concern,” the operative pointed out. “Therefore, we decided
to warn our American colleagues and ask them to stop these
activities.”
At a time, the FSB did not make public any information they knew
about the CIA operations in Moscow, but held a meeting with the
head of their station’s chief in Moscow, Stephen Holmes.
“We hoped our American colleagues would hear us, given that
we also presented to them precise information about CIA officers
making recruitment attempts in Moscow and who exactly was doing
that,” the source added.
This article originally appeared on : RT