Moles

Claim: FSB traitor with fake ID took CIA money to frame Russia 


Colonel Sergei Mikhailov was arrested in December on the charge that he leaked information to the US allegedly showing that the FSB hacked and meddled in the American presidential election.

A new report from TV channel REN claims Sergei Mikhailov was originally recruited by the CIA during a vacation in a Mediterranean country. They added, citing security services sources, that he was considered a high level cyber asset by American intelligence heads.

In addition, investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Sergei Mikhailov used a fake identity for up to seven years, strengthening the claim he was operating as a CIA double agent.

'It was suspected that perhaps Mikhailov is not really called Mikhailov,' Novaya Gazeta reported. “Two sources pointed to him being 'a foreign intelligence mole inside the FSB’.”