Oleg Smolenkov?Went missing from Russia with wife Antonina in 2017.
Purchased a $925K DC Area home in 2018.
Russian writers are questioning his access to valuable intel.The real story is why the IC decided to out this "spy" to at this point in time.
HT @blinova14
Appears the "Trump accidentally outed one of our spies in Russia" stroy is fake news.
Sergei Kiselyov / Moskva News Agency A top U.S. spy who was reportedly evacuated from Russia could have been a senior Kremlin official's aide who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area, the Kommersant business daily has reported.The United States had allegedly extracted one of its highest-level moles in the Russian government in 2017 over fears he could be caught, CNN reported Monday, citing multiple Trump administration officials. The New York Times later reported that the alleged CIA informant had been spirited away after helping the U.S. intelligence community's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. ...
Smolenkov was reported to have disappeared with his family while on vacation in Montenegro in June 2017. Russian investigators had initially probed Smolenkov's disappearance as a murder case, but Kommersant reported the Federal Security Service (FSB) later found he was alive and living abroad.
Our government is still leaking to the press in order to undo Trump's agenda.
Russian media, in turn, has reported that the man may be Oleg Smolenkov, an aide of senior diplomat Yury Ushakov, a former ambassador to the U.S.When Smolenkov's name was put to the Kremlin today, the Russian government said he had worked there but been fired in 2016 or 2017. ...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ... also said that U.S. media reports read like 'pulp fiction'.
I posted a short twitter thread about this yesterday with links to more info. I’d find but can’t right now but it’s on this thread, just check my name in forum.
They are getting ahead of the Hillary outed all our Chinese assets story.
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