The Guardian: the agent of the Russian secret services for more than 10 years worked in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
US intelligence agencies have discovered the Russian spy in the American Embassy in Moscow. According to the newspaper The Guardian, a Russian citizen was hired by the U.S. Secret service and more than 10 years had access to confidential information and internal mail.
“She had access to the official mail system of the Secret service. It was available schedules of the President, both current and past, and their spouses,” said a source.
According to the newspaper, the woman came under suspicion in 2016 during a standard security check. They were able to establish that the suspect met regularly with the FSB. On the results of the inspection in January 2017 was warned nine senior officials of the Secret service.
A private investigation conducted by the CIA and the FBI. The potential violation was not brought to the attention of a Committee of counter-intelligence, said The Guardian. The source is confident that verification of this incident could be included in the investigation of spectracolor Robert Mueller. “Congress all the time looking for Russian hackers. And it is possible that the information allowed to attack the server of the Democratic party during election 2016, went directly from the Embassy”, — said the interlocutor of the newspaper.
The interlocutor of the newspaper claims that she was fired last year after the decision on the reduction of the us diplomatic mission in Russia. It is noted that the reduction of the diplomatic mission could contribute to the removal of women from under suspicion. The source stressed, she had a lot of time to collect information. According to him, some employees of the Embassy were sent to Russian emails to your personal mailbox, which is a violation of the rules.