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[As we all know, paranoia and delusions of persecution are congenital Russian and, broadly speaking, Slavic traits. The CIA, like NATO, is a strictly humanitarian, self-abnegating organization whose noble, selfless, disinterested goals are intentionally misread by backwards, uncivilized savages around the world, from Russia to China, from Venezuela to Liberia, from Macedonia to Malaysia and Belarus and Zimbabwe and Ukraine and Libya and in fact nine tenths of the nations in the world. But that shouldn't make us 'paranoid'; that might jeopardize our credibility.] Russia Says Its Agents Thwart CIA By Judith Ingram Associated Press Writer Wednesday, April 10, 2002; 10:19 AM MOSCOW �� Russia's main security service said Wednesday it had thwarted efforts by the CIA to obtain classified information about new Russian weaponry and about Russian military cooperation with ex-Soviet republics. A spokesman for the Federal Security Service, the Soviet-era KGB's chief successor, said CIA officers posing as embassy officials in Russia and another, unidentified ex-Soviet republic had tried to recruit an employee at a secret Russian Defense Ministry installation. The security service interfered at an early stage and was able to monitor the CIA officers' activities and prevent serious damage to Russia's security, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity. The service named two alleged participants in the operation, including a third secretary in the consular department of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The Interfax news agency, citing an "informed source," said the consular officer had already left Moscow. Interfax quoted the security service's press office as saying that the consular officer, like other alleged American intelligence agents in Russia, had used secret drop points and messages in invisible ink to communicate with her Russian contacts. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield declined to comment Wednesday. Agency officials routinely decline to discuss foreign allegations of U.S. espionage. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow also would not comment on the accusation, which comes amid heightened U.S.-Russian tensions following a warm spell prompted by Russia's participation in the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign. In December, President Bush elected to dump the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Moscow had vowed to preserve. The two nations have sparred over recently imposed U.S. steel tariffs, which Russia says will severely damage its metals industry, and Russia's ban on U.S. poultry. As arms negotiators struggle to draw up a legally binding strategic arms reduction treaty by Bush's May summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two governments have accused one another of undermining biological and chemical weapons treaties. After Putin, a former KGB agent, came to power in December 1999, U.S. businessman Edmond Pope became the first American convicted of spying in Russia in 40 years. Putin pardoned him shortly after his conviction. Last year, Russia ordered 50 U.S. diplomats to leave the country, mirroring the U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats following the arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen on charges of spying for Moscow. The Russians' arrest of U.S. Fulbright scholar John Tobin on marijuana charges last year also attracted wide attention after security officials said they believed he was a spy in training. Tobin was freed from a Russian prison in August 2001. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] 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 ==^================================================================
