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Report: Russia Says It Uncovers CIA Spy Ring April 10, 2002 10:18 AM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia Wednesday accused the United States of trying to steal military secrets, just weeks before President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush are due to meet in Moscow. The Interfax news agency quoted an official of the FSB domestic security service as saying it had uncovered a U.S. spy ring. CIA officials posing as U.S. diplomats had tried to recruit an expert in a secret Defense Ministry plant before the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet KGB, intervened, it said. "The FSB has irrefutable evidence of the CIA's spying activities in Russia," an FSB official was quoted as saying. "The timely intervention of the Russian security service stopped the U.S. plans at an early stage, taking control of their action and preventing a serious threat to the security of the Russian Federation." Officials at the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the CIA in Washington declined to comment. The FSB was unavailable for comment. Russia and the United States have improved ties since the September 11 attacks against U.S. cities, when Putin was among the first to offer his support. The Kremlin has since backed the U.S.-led war on terrorism. The FSB charges add to a growing list of woes likely to crop up at the May 23-25 summit in Moscow and St. Petersburg, already set to include bickering over U.S. poultry imports, a U.S.-funded radio broadcast to Russia's separatist Chechnya region and nuclear disarmament. The unnamed FSB official, speaking to Interfax, named a junior diplomat in the U.S. embassy in Moscow as leading the operation, adding the diplomat had already left Russia. "The work was carried out by CIA officers, working under the cover of American diplomats in Moscow and in one of the CIS states," the official said. In March last year, 50 Russian diplomats were expelled from the United States, prompting a tit-for-tat response from the Kremlin in the worst spy scandal to shake Moscow and Washington since the Cold War. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=796028 --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
