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U.S. (C.I.A.) Embassy Spy On The Ground + Arrested (PIC)
RUSSIA TO EXPEL U.S. DIPLOMAT
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14 May, 2013
By PAUL SONNE And GREGORY L. WHITE
MOSCOW—Russian authorities on Tuesday expelled an American they accused of
being a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer operating under diplomatic
cover in Moscow, alleging that he attempted to recruit a member of the
Russian intelligence services involved in antiterrorism work.
This photo provided by Russia's Federal Security Service claims to show Ryan
Fogle, an American diplomat that Russia has accused of being an undercover
CIA officer attempting to recruit a member of the Russian intelligence
services.
Ryan C. Fogle, the third secretary in the political section at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow, was detained in the night hours stretching from Monday to
Tuesday and subsequently released to U.S. diplomats, Russia's Federal
Security Service said in a statement. The FSB alleged that Mr. Fogle had
called his would-be target, offering a payoff of €100,000 ($130,000) for
cooperation. After an initial refusal, the would-be target agreed to meet on
a second call, the FSB said.
Mr. Fogle was detained near a Moscow park around 11:30 p.m. Monday wearing a
wig and carrying "special technical equipment," materials for a disguise and
"a large sum" of cash, the FSB said.
The CIA and U.S. State Department declined to comment.
Purported Spy Lettter
Russia's Federal Security Service released a photograph of a letter that
allegedly contains instructions on spying for the U.S.. The authenticity of
the photos and note released by the FSB couldn't be independently verified.
Read the Associated Press translation of the purported letter.
.Spy Games
The U.S. and Russia have sent spies to each other's countries for decades,
even in the 20 years since the Cold War ended. Review some recent cases.
The expulsion comes at a sensitive time for the White House, which has
sought in recent weeks to rebuild frayed ties with Moscow. A key element of
those efforts has been cooperating on antiterrorism efforts in the wake of
the Boston Marathon bombings, whose alleged perpetrators had roots in
Russia's Caucasus Mountain region.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said "such provocative actions in the spirit of
the "Cold War" in no way help to strengthen mutual trust. The ministry said
Mr. Fogle had been declared persona non grata and demanded his immediate
departure in a meeting Tuesday with U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul.
In announcing the allegations on Tuesday, the FSB said the would-be target
was a Russian security officer responsible for fighting Islamist terrorists
in that region.
"The U.S. intelligence community recently has made repeated attempts to
recruit employees of Russia's law-enforcement bodies and secret services,
which have been recorded and monitored by [Russia's] counterespionage
agencies," the FSB said.
"At first, we couldn't believe it happened," an unnamed FSB officer told
U.S. Embassy officials who had come to pick up Mr. Fogle after his
detention, according to a video released by the FSB. "Because you know that
recently the FSB has been actively helping with the investigation of the
explosions in Boston," he said. "Against this background, when relations
between our countries are strengthening, an American diplomat commits in our
view a state crime against the Russian Federation."
The degree of that cooperation, and the recent trajectory of the bilateral
relation, remains open to debate. The diplomatic incident comes less than a
week after the White House and the Kremlin attempted to patch up a damaged
relationship with a high-level meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The U.S. is seeking the Kremlin's help in ending the protracted war in
Syria, a bid that was frustrated when the Kremlin announced a few days after
Mr. Kerry's departure that it would go ahead with the sales of advanced
antiaircraft missiles to Syria. Western and regional officials have said
these weapons could provide a large boost to President Bashar al-Assad's
regime.
The U.S. has also been searching for tidbits from Russia about the
activities of alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev during his six-month
trip to Russia last year. While Moscow and Washington have announced they
are cooperating on the investigation, officials in Russia have been giving
contradictory information about what they knew about Mr. Tsarnaev.
President Vladimir Putin and top security officials say Russia had no
meaningful information, but officials in Dagestan say Mr. Tsarnaev was
tracked closely.
Mr. Fogle's detention, which led the nightly newscasts on state television,
was the first expulsion of a U.S. diplomat from Russia on espionage charges
since the early 2000s.
But the damage to the broader relationship was likely to be limited,
according to one prominent Russian lawmaker.
"The spy scandal around the American diplomat will be short-lived in my
view," according to a post from the Twitter account of Alexei Pushkov, the
chairman of the International Affairs Committee in Parliament, who is known
for his often critical statements on U.S. policy. "It won't harm the
Lavrov-Kerry talks but it won't improve the atmosphere," another post read,
referring to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The FSB released photos it said showed Mr. Fogle after his detention, as
well as physical evidence the FSB said it had recovered. The authenticity of
these couldn't otherwise be verified.
One image shows a table strewn with the items that the FSB said it recovered
from Mr. Fogle's detention. On the table are two wigs, three pairs of
glasses, three Ziploc bags filled with thousands of euros, a microphone, a
compass, a knife and an RFID Shield, a sleeve that protects passports and
credit-cards with computer chips from being read remotely.
The FSB also released a photo of a note for the would-be recruit that it
alleged Mr. Fogle had been carrying.
Written in Russian that appeared to be that of a nonnative speaker, the note
was addressed "Dear Friend" and signed "Your Friends." The note promised
$100,000 to discuss the would-be recruit's experience and "much more" if the
recruit proved willing to answer specific questions of interest.
"In addition, for long-term cooperation, we offer up to $1 million a year
with the promise of additional bonuses for information that will help us,"
the note read.
The note instructed the would-be recruit to communicate with U.S. handlers
via a Gmail account accessed either from a public Wi-Fi network or an
Internet cafe.
The FSB also released a photo that appeared to show Mr. Fogle being
handcuffed on the ground while wearing a baseball cap, a light-blue checked
shirt and a dirty-blonde wig. The series of photos also included an image of
what appeared to be Mr. Fogle's U.S. Embassy identification card and another
of his official Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomatic card. The
diplomatic card was set to expire on April 29, 2014, three years after its
issue date.
Reached by phone at her home in St. Louis, Mr. Fogle's mother, Patty Fogle,
said, "I have nothing to say."
Phil Harris, who said he is a friend of Mr. Fogle's in the St. Louis area,
said he last saw Mr. Fogle around the December holidays and that they played
poker and shot shotguns together. Mr. Harris said Mr. Fogle spoke little
about his job, though he had talked about working closely with Russian
officials. Friends would sometimes rib Mr. Fogle about his discretion over
his job, Mr. Harris said.
"He worked for the government and he did something he didn't talk about,
really," Mr. Harris said.
A Facebook FB +0.78%page bearing Mr. Fogle's name indicated that he was
slated to come back to the U.S. soon. An April 11 posting read: "Countdown
to America: 43 days, 2 hours, and 33 minutes…but who's counting."
Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul for an
urgent meeting to discuss Mr. Fogle's detention.
Mr. McFaul declined to comment on the matter in a Twitter
question-and-answer session Tuesday.
The expulsion of Mr. Fogle comes almost three years after the U.S. exposed a
network of Russian sleeper operatives that included the redheaded Anna
Chapman, who later returned to Russia to become a model and minor celebrity.
—Siobhan Gorman
and Anton Troianovski contributed to this article.
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