11-13-2010 22:17
Russia sent an assassin to kill 'traitor' in the US A contract killer has been dispatched to assassinate the Russian double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman and nine other spies in the United States this spring, the British newspaper Guardian said, citing reports in Moscow.
"We know who he is and where he is," a high-ranking Kremlin source told the Russian newspaper, Kommersant, it said.
The traitor was reportedly identified as a Colonel Shcherbakov, an officer of the SVR (foreign intelligence service) who headed the S directorate of the service's U.S. department, which controlled the ring of sleeper agents, including Chapman, it said.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/11/182_76272.htmlThe Colonel made the news recently about his claims of the deep cover spies. It seems that his life is endangered, while sleeper agent Chapman recently was in the news about her new store opening.
Medvedev Confirms Mole Betrayed Spies13 November 2010
By Alexander Bratersky
President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed on Friday that 11 Russian sleeper agents gathering intelligence on the United States had been betrayed by a mole in the Foreign Intelligence Service and said the secretive body should learn from the incident. “I knew about it the same day it happened, in full detail,” Medvedev told reporters in Seoul on Friday during his visit for a summit of the Group of 20 largest economies. He refused to provide any other details.
On Thursday, Kommersant reported that a high-ranking intelligence officer, identified only by his surname Shcherbakov, leaked information about Russian agents on U.S. soil and then fled to the United States.
Ten of the Russian agents were arrested in the United States in June, just three days after Medvedev held talks there with U.S. President Barack Obama. The 11th suspect disappeared in Cyprus. The arrested agents pleaded guilty in a U.S. court and were exchanged for four Russians serving sentences on various related charges, including high treason, in August.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Shcherbakov's name and patronymic may be Alexander Vasilyevich, citing Oleg Kalugin, a former senior KGB counterintelligence officer who settled in the United States in 1990. Kalugin said he had crossed paths with a person by that name while working in Soviet counterintelligence.
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