[gatagato]

Being a CIA agent is not crime in Russia. However, they don't like very much the people trying to spy them. Or trying to recruit people to spy them.

Russia's security services claimed Tuesday to have arrested a CIA agent posing as an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for allegedly trying to recruit a Russian secret service agent to work for the U.S.


The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a man identified as Ryan Christopher Fogle on the evening of May 13 or early the next morning for attempting to recruit a Russian agent.


The U.S. Embassy would not comment on the reports when contacted Tuesday morning by CBS News.


Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a statement from the FSB as saying Fogle was arrested while trying to recruit a member of the Russian security services, and he had on his person, "special technical devices, written instructions for the Russian citizen being recruited, a large sum of cash and means of changing his appearance."


After being arrested and processed by Russian security services, the man was handed back to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Moscow.

The FSB said Fogle had been masquerading as a career diplomat at the Political Section of the U.S. Embassy, but that he was a CIA employee. A photo provided by the FSB and published across Russian media allegedly showed his Russian-issued diplomatic identification card.


Also published was a picture apparently showing the moment the man was arrested -- a man with shoulder-length blonde hair being pinned on the ground by Russian agents.

Another photo showed the same man, but with short brown hair, sitting at a desk -- apparently in custody. On a table nearby there was the backpack the man had been pictured carrying and a blonde wig.


The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed to CBS News that U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul had been summoned to the Ministry over the incident. An official at the Ministry said they had not yet heard back from the Embassy regarding the summons.

An image published by "Russia Today" shows a man identified as alleged CIA agent Ryan Christopher Fogle in the custody of Russian security agents after his arrest in Moscow, May 14, 2013.



The purported Russian-issued diplomatic ID card of a U.S. man identified by Russian security services as Ryan Christopher Fogle.



A photo published by "Russia Today" shows an alleged CIA agent identified by Russian security services as Ryan Christopher Fogle sitting in custody in Moscow, May 14, 2013

[bdjackass318]

. I was just reading about this, was going to make thread about it but you beat me to it. Nice scoop Gato! . Pretty interesting story to say the least. Is this the beginning of a new cold war etween Russia and the U.S.?

[bdjackass318]

pic of him getting arrested. His blonde wig looks ridiculous!

[gatagato]

Thanks for the great contribution, bdjackass318

[bdjackass318]

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[GregK]

That spy kit looks just like the one my grandma bought me for my 8th birthday.

[ices]

Russia and the US have always been spying on each other. Russia has bugged every embassy in their country and abroad.

So has the USA.

[icheerthebull]

Originally Posted by ices ↗

Russia and the US have always been spying on each other. Russia has bugged every embassy in their country and abroad.

So has the USA.

True, I would recommend the book 'mafia state' to everyone, very easy read

[DOLL]

No wonder this comes up in these times, since europe is planning the rocket-shield against East, they are ( USA) very eager to know what the Russians are planning.