Kremlin: US Spy Agencies ‘Crudely’ Trying To Recruit Russian Informants

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The Kremlin mocked U.S. efforts to recruit Russian informants, according to a Monday Reuters report. 

“The fact is that the United States in recent years is working crudely using its intelligence services, trying to recruit Russian citizens, exerting moral and other pressure on them…. I think these incidents in the most eloquent manner testify to the attempts to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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  1. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    “The fact is that the United States in recent years is working crudely using its intelligence services, trying to recruit Russian citizens, exerting moral and other pressure on them…. I think these incidents in the most eloquent manner testify to the attempts to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

    Pot? Meet kettle.

  2. “The fact is that the United States in recent years is working crudely using its intelligence services, trying to recruit Russian citizens, exerting moral and other pressure on them…”

    In this context, “crudely” should be understood to mean “with insufficient offer of compensation.”

  3. After Trump outs our solid assets in the former Soviet Union, we have to work with what’s available.

  4. I want everyone here to close their eyes and imagine a russian disnelyand.

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