Russia’s Sloppy Spies Cross a Deadly Line
Russia’s Sloppy Spies Cross a Deadly LinePutin’s operatives allegedly plotted an assassination near Washington. The five men charged in the indictment, all believed to be living in Russia (though two are Cubans and one is a Venezuelan national), had tried to engineer a hit on a Russian dissident in exile living in the Washington, D.C. area this past July and August, with a promised $40,000 fee. Another unsuccessful assassination plot last year targeted a Russian exile in Lithuania, described by one of the operatives as a “bad guy” who was “telling lies about Russia.”When you read the details of the indictment, the plotting sounds almost comically inept—The Americans meets The Simpsons.
- ▪Russia’s Sloppy Spies Cross a Deadly LinePutin’s operatives allegedly plotted an assassination near Washington.
- ▪The five men charged in the indictment, all believed to be living in Russia (though two are Cubans and one is a Venezuelan national), had tried to engineer a hit on a Russian dissident in exile living in the Washington, D.C. area this past
- ▪Another unsuccessful assassination plot last year targeted a Russian exile in Lithuania, described by one of the operatives as a “bad guy” who was “telling lies about Russia.”When you read the details of the indictment, the plotting sounds
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Russia’s Sloppy Spies Cross a Deadly LinePutin’s operatives allegedly plotted an assassination near Washington. Will Donald Trump even care?Cathy YoungSeptember 21Upgrade to listen8 minutes2446(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)“INDIVIDUALS WORKING for the intelligence services of the Russian Federation” have, for at least the last two years, “conspired to conduct . . . attacks and murder around the world, including within the United States.” That’s the stunning news in an indictment released last week by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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