Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in the mid-1990s, staff members of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in the Russian government. He shared this information on December 9 at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society.
According to Putin, they were not aware of this in those years.
“In the early 2000s, I already cleaned everyone out, but in the mid-1990s, as it turned out, the staff members of the US CIA were serving as advisers and official employees of the Russian government,” said the head of the Russian state.
At the same time, employees of the American special services gave various advice, and also participated in governing the state, Putin specified.
According to the Russian leader, later in the United States, these intelligence members were brought to criminal responsibility for violating American law: while working in the Cabinet of Ministers, CIA officers took part in privatization. As a result, several people were convicted and received various terms of imprisonment.
Even before Putin, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Ruslan Khasbulatov made a similar statement. In his opinion, the number of CIA agents in the circle of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin “was in the hundreds.”
In June, the former vice-president of Russia, Alexander Rutskoi, said that shortly before the collapse of the USSR, a man with a foreign accent appeared in the circle of the president of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, who gave him advice on appointment to top government posts.
Source: IZ
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