Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Who Is The Russian Spy That The CIA Extradited?

Russian media have identified the alleged CIA spy in the Kremlin as Oleg Smolenkov, an aide to former ambassador to the U.S. Yury Ushakov (pictured in April this year)

Moscow Times: U.S. Spy Evacuated From Russia Was Possibly a Senior Kremlin Official’s Aide – Kommersant

A top U.S. spy who was reportedly evacuated from Russia could have been a senior Kremlin official’s aide who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area, the Kommersant business daily has reported.

The United States had allegedly extracted one of its highest-level moles in the Russian government in 2017 over fears he could be caught, CNN reported Monday, citing multiple Trump administration officials. The New York Times later reported that the alleged CIA informant had been spirited away after helping the U.S. intelligence community’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.

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WNU Editor: Russian media is saying that the "spy" is Oleg Smolenkov, an adviser to Putin's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. If this report is true, I would be surprised if he had access to the Kremlin let alone Russian President Putin's office. Foreign policy officials work at the Foreign Ministry, not in the Kremlin. And aides to an aide will certainly not have that type of access.

More News On Who Is The Russian Spy That The CIA Extradited

Russia-US espionage: Details emerge of 'extracted spy' -- BBC
Russian Media Name Alleged U.S. Spy Who Could See Papers On Putin's Desk And Was Evacuated From Russia -- Newsweek
Russian media claim CIA spy in the Kremlin is aide to ex-ambassador as embarrassed Moscow insists the mole did NOT have access to Vladimir Putin -- Daily Mail
Kremlin says reported U.S. spy in Russian president's office was fired years ago -- Reuters
US extracted spy from Putin's Kremlin: reports -- AFP
Reports: CIA Informant Who Provided Intel On Putin, Kremlin Was Extracted From Russia In 2017 -- RFE

10 comments:

fred said...

The informant, according to people familiar with the matter, was outside of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making — easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets.

Anonymous said...



"... easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets." - Fred

Trump's fault!

Planning for Oleg Smolenkov's extractions was planned before Trump was sworn in as president.

Trump's fault!


Someone is mental.

fred said...

Not Trump's fault. However, Trump has now said (today) we do not need intel from foreign people!

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fred said...

Donald Trump skeptical of using foreign spies to collect intel on hostile countries, sources say
Esp. if they are Russians who have been recruited by our intel...that would mean to Russia and Putin

Anonymous said...

Trump’s ‘confiscation’ of notes from private Putin meeting set off alarm bells over spy’s safety

Anonymous said...

Trump's position is not unreasonable.

Consider how many agents we have had rolled up in China, Iran, Lebanon, and other places.

What percentage are rolled up?

What is their 1/2 life?

The few that do survive and the fewer still that have really good information that can't be deduced form sigint and other ways, what use is their information.

You are butter, butter, butter over guns freak. So they could tell us they are coming and you couldn't do jack about.

Which makes you impotent and hypocritical, if not also stupid and hideous.

The roll ups in China, Lebanon, and Iran were pretty horrifying. u have these putzes and puds like John Brennan going on and on about politics and yet they cannot keep a significant percentage of their foreign assets alive or productive.

I think you are like a pig. You wrestle with a pig and the pig likes it. You are just beyond stupid. I can see why your significant other wants you on the internet looking up smut and trolling, so that you are not pawing her and boring her.

Anonymous said...

The Moscow informant was instrumental to the C.I.A.’s most explosive conclusion about Russia’s interference campaign: that President Vladimir V. Putin ordered and orchestrated it himself. As the American government’s best insight into the thinking of and orders from Mr. Putin, the source was also key to the C.I.A.’s assessment that he affirmatively favored Donald J. Trump’s election and personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

The informant, according to people familiar with the matter, was outside of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making[via NY times]

fred said...

WaPo knew in 2017 that CIA had human source in Kremlin with direct access to Putin, furnished docs showing Putin authorization of election interference plot. We held some back. But knew it would come out.
IN FULL HERE

Anonymous said...

CNN was called out by the CIA for, and I quote: "false reporting". Not tired of winning, ever. MAGA :P

Feel the burn, little parrot? How many times has your side been wrong? You still think we are the chuds, the sexists, the racists, the incompetent, the liars and all these derogatory terms YOU, the smut website operator uses? Listen, man, stop overcompensating and virtue signaling, you are not helping anyone. You make things worse with your sickness. Just get therapy, we all want you to go :D Maybe run a gofundme page? Or just switch channels/websites, you just keep repeating lies and falsehoods like a little parrot, but it is bad for the country, you realise that, yeah?

Anonymous said...


If Fred was told to vote for Tlaib and Ilhan Omar on election day, he would do it for the team.

He is down for the struggle!