Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The 'Cold War' Returns To The U.S. Embassy In Moscow

New U.S. Embassy in Moscow as seen from the street. Wikipedia

US Embassy in Moscow Faces Cold War-Era Harassment -- ABC News

One American diplomat's tires were slashed. Another's personal email was hacked. Still others reported mysterious break-ins.

The incidents are all signs, U.S. officials and experts said, that aggressive, Soviet-era counterintelligence tactics are back in fashion in Russia.

The number of incidents targeting American diplomats in Moscow has increased in recent years to levels not seen since the Cold War, officials said. Taken together, they paint an escalating pattern of intimidation and harassment that is believed to be led by Russia's Federal Security Services (FSB), a successor to the Soviet KGB.

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My Comment: This will pass with time .... but I sympathize with the American personnel who are working in Moscow.When the FSB targets you for harassment, they are unfortunately very good at their job.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Proof that the Hillary Clinton's reset button worked!

carl said...

Washington order Kiev to redirect that plane to that most advantages spot on the battlefield and have it fly lower and to have Kiev shoot it down.
Then Washington clames a video with a u-tube upload date as being a conversation by that anri-junta as evidence Putin shot the plane down.

Then the only thing Washington expects out of Moscow is sunshine and loly pops.