Moscow. 17 Jan. INTERFAX.RU – Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov stated about the increase in recruiting activity of US intelligence against the Russian diplomats.
“If we talk about recruiting approach, we have not disclosed the full statistics on this, but over the last few years, especially during the second term of the Obama administration, such hostile activity against our diplomats was growing,” – said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on a press-conferences on Tuesday in Moscow.
as an example, Lavrov cited the attempted recruitment of a Russian diplomat, came to the US to buy drugs for the treatment of ex-Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. About this story, the Minister said, recently told the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“This is the case when I recruited our diplomat officer of the Consulate General, who came to the doctor to get medication paid for Primakov. (To – if), to recruit in this situation, we need to have a specific professional arrogance and a deep sense of cynicism and corruption”, – said Lavrov.
He added that it is not the only case. “We have had approaches in April last year. Unprecedented at the level of the second person in the Embassy, at the level of Minister-counselor, was recruiting approach with an offer to cooperate”, – said the Minister.
According to him, another diplomat, senior American intelligence agencies, trying to make a recruitment offer, “stuck literally in the car in his absence to 10 thousand dollars with the offer on cooperation”. “The money was credited in our accounts Department and they now work for the benefit of the Russian state”, – said Lavrov.
While Lavrov called unsubstantiated allegations of harassment of American diplomats in Moscow. “As for claims that the American Embassy when President Obama was here subjected to some special persecution – I do not see any reason in such statements,” he said.
According to Lavrov, there were a few episodes that were made public, and the Americans tried to present them as the hunt for the U.S. diplomats. “However, in reality it is quite different – suppressed intelligence activities of American representatives, who work under diplomatic cover,” – said the Minister.
on Sunday, the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, the TV channel “Russia 1″ (VGTRK) reported on the attempt by American intelligence agencies to recruit Russian diplomats several years ago when one of the employees of the Russian representative office bought medicine for treatment of ex-Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
According to her, the medicine was only available in the U.S., the family and friends of former Prime Minister gathered about 10 thousand dollars. The Russian diplomat was going to purchase the drug through official channels through the practitioner.
“he was approached By the American intelligence officials who escorted him to the basement of the store, was not working cellular. He could not contact any Consulate or Embassy, or from their colleagues. They kept him there for an hour. What they talked to him, it was more like a recruitment attempt, rather than on an adequate conversation: he was intimidated by the fact that he took it on trade in medical devices and medicines,” – said Zakharov.
She stressed that “the doctor, who ordered this medicine still works, it was not applied any action on the part of law enforcement agencies of the United States.” Zakharov added that the drug was withdrawn, and the money still has not returned.
According to her, after the intervention of the US state Department, the situation was resolved and everything was done as quickly as possible to deliver the drug in Russia, but “time was lost”.
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