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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums9/14 THE GUARDIAN: Spy Oleg Smolenkov disappeared in Montenegro
Why does Trump hate Montenegro?
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/oleg-smolenkov-alleged-us-spy-gave-russia-the-slip|
In June 2017, the Kremlin aide Oleg Smolenkov and his family flew from Moscow to Tivat, a coastal resort in Montenegro favoured by Russian tourists. He never came back, and his colleagues never heard from him again. A murder inquiry was launched and soon dropped for lack of leads.
That was the last anyone heard of Smolenkov until this week, when Russian media named him as a CIA spy spirited out of Russia by the agency for his own safety. CNN first revealed the existence of a US source inside the Kremlin earlier this week.
It reported that the source had provided Washington with information for years and was instrumental in US intelligence agencies conclusion that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. CNN did not name the agent, citing fears for his life, but Russian media quickly outed Smolenkov as the likely culprit.
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9/14 THE GUARDIAN: Spy Oleg Smolenkov disappeared in Montenegro (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Sep 2019
OP
Just saw that Lindsay Graham was in Montenegro, hotspot for Russians. Coincidence?
Midnight Writer
Sep 2019
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Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)1. much, much more at the link.....fascinating stuff nt
Midnight Writer
(21,540 posts)2. Just saw that Lindsay Graham was in Montenegro, hotspot for Russians. Coincidence?
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)3. hmmmmmmmm nt
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Oh please let that be true.
He deserves more than a few indictments.
Response to Grasswire2 (Original post)
triron This message was self-deleted by its author.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)6. One and the same.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)7. Same except he lived in Virginia
not Washington DC, but often referenced as Washington DC suburbs..
LisaL
(44,962 posts)9. And he isn't there anymore, I presume.
Obviously he couldn't continue living there after he was outed, because Putin proclaimed traitors must be punished.
triron
(21,914 posts)10. OK but just an irrelevant detail.
triron
(21,914 posts)8. But the article says he disappeared in Montenegro.
Obviously not since he was living in D. C.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)11. He disappeared from Montenegro a couple of years ago, and moved to US.
Where he lived until being outed.
triron
(21,914 posts)12. OK just read the article through. I was mistaken.