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From combined
dispatches
MOSCOW — Russia's security
police yesterday accused the United States of drugging a scientist in a
cloak-and-dagger conspiracy to steal military
secrets.
The claims were a throwback to
tit-for-tat spy scandals that dominated the chilly first months of the
presidencies of Vladimir Putin and George Bush, and they sounded a sour note
ahead of the two men's summit in Russia next
month.
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 the condition
of anonymity.
The service named two purported
participants in the operation: David Robertson, whose post at an unnamed embassy
in the former Soviet Union was not described, and Yunju Kensinger, reportedly a
third secretary in the consular department of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The
Interfax news agency, citing an "informed source," said Miss Kensinger had
already left Moscow.
It quoted the security
service's press office as saying that Miss Kensinger, like other suspected
American intelligence agents in Russia, had not met personally with her Russian
contact or contacts. Instead, she used secret drop points and messages in
invisible ink.
State-controlled ORT television
showed grainy footage of a woman identified as Miss Kensinger walking with other
embassy employees. It also broadcast pictures of a plastic-wrapped package
stashed among some bushes in what it identified as the Sokolniki region of
Moscow, and an interview in a darkened room with a man identified as a Federal
Security Service operative.
He explained that
the Russian Defense Ministry employee, identified only by his first name,
Viktor, had gone to a U.S. embassy in another former Soviet republic last spring
to try to find information about a relative who had disappeared abroad. Embassy
officers purportedly slipped him psychotropic drugs to get information, because
he was found a week later wandering the streets in shock and with amnesia.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020411-93348022.htm
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