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Russians: CIA Used Drugs to Recruit By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press Writer Thursday, April 11, 2002; 12:48 PM MOSCOW �� U.S. spies used drugged cookies and drinks to break the will of a Russian defense employee and recruit him as an agent, according to new details of Russian security service allegations published by a newspaper Thursday. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, ridiculed the alleged U.S. espionage effort in the report in the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, saying the CIA once delivered secret instructions to their agent in invisible ink that melted away when he used Russian tap water to develop them. "The Americans will never defeat us because they will never figure out that our tap water differs from that in Langley," the city in Virginia where the CIA is based, the newspaper said quoting FSB officials. The FSB, the KGB's main successor, said Wednesday that CIA officers posing as embassy officials in Russia and another, unidentified former Soviet republic had tried to recruit an employee at a secret Russian Defense Ministry installation. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow both declined to comment Wednesday on the allegations. In the two-page report Thursday in Komsomolskaya Pravda, the FSB elaborated on details of the allegations. It identified the Russian expert as Viktor, 58, a worker of a defense ministry facility near Zhukovsky air base, the Russian air force's top flight test center near Moscow. According to the newspaper, in April 2001 Viktor went to the U.S. Embassy in the unidentified ex-Soviet republic to seek information about a relative that has gone missing abroad. After leaving the embassy, he was found by local police sitting on a garden bench in shock and amnesia. Viktor was brought to Moscow where the FSB concluded that the U.S. Embassy officers had slipped him psychotropic drugs to get information out of him. The newspaper said that David Robertson, the Embassy official who met with Viktor, treated him with drinks and cookies while asking him "in-depth" questions about his work. "Within minutes, Viktor felt weakness and light trance," an apparent reaction to drugs, the newspaper reported. Under FSB control, Viktor received instructions in invisible ink allegedly delivered by Yunju Kensinger, reportedly a third secretary in the consular department of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. On one occasion, the message began to melt away when Viktor tried to read it using special tablets and Russian tap water. FSB agents rushed to save it with bottled water, the newspaper said. In the first message, disguised as a juice pack, the alleged U.S. contacts sent him $10,000 in cash along with instructions to provide information about confidential documents received by his organization and data on Russia's latest air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. After the FSB concocted a response, Viktor delivered it to Robertson in the same city where they first met. The newspaper said Viktor later received more cash and instructions from his handlers, but the FSB decided to end the operation after getting enough "factual evidence" of U.S. espionage activities. Komsomolskaya Pravda said Kensinger had already left Moscow � the claim made Wednesday by the Interfax news agency and Russian television. The espionage accusation comes amid renewed U.S.-Russian tensions following a warm spell prompted by Russia's support of the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign. A former KGB spy in London, Mikhail Lyubimov, said the latest espionage allegations showed that the two countries remain interested in spying on each other despite better ties. "Now the main effort is to get military and technical information," he told Associated Press Television News. "Whatever our relations are, I think that both countries are experimenting with new weapons, trying to make them more effective and better, and therefore this competition will proceed." __________________________________________________ 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 ==^================================================================
