MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a CIA attempt at getting access to defense and arms trade secrets with CIS member nations.
CIA officials posing as embassy officials in Russia and in another CIS member nation tried to recruit an expert in a secret Defense Ministry installation, but the FSB interfered at an early stage to find out what U.S. intelligence was after, monitor its activities and prevent serious damage to Russia's security, an official in the FSB Public Relations Center told Interfax on Wednesday.
"The CIA's David Robertson had secret meetings abroad with the Russian citizen," he said.
In Russia the Americans maintained contacts with the Russian through caches and cryptographic letters, the official said.
The third secretary of the U.S. embassy's consular department in Moscow was in charge of the operation, he said.
"The FSB has irrefutable evidence of the CIA's spying activities against Russia," the official said.