[ETL]

After US investigation, the FBI (Mueller) took a one-third ounce sample to Russia to help confirm that the material was from the stuff that disappeared after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The "Russian mob" and the Russian government in many instances are one and the same.

[jjotto]

Yep. The understory seems to be that Americans were giving proof to the Russian government that America knew what was going on. As a cover story, that’s pretty good, and note that this took place when GW Bush was president.