![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Walton’s claims, with the help of “three former senior American officials who spoke” to the paper “on the condition of anonymity”. On Monday, The New York Times reported that it had independently confirmed Dr. Poteyev remains at large and is believed to be living in the United States under the protection of the CIA’s National Resettlement Operations Center. In 2011, a Russian court tried Poteyev in absentia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Some believe that the SVR defector was also responsible for the arrests of Russian spies in Germany and Holland. It is believed that Poteyev began working for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1999, as an agent-in-place.īy 2010, when he openly defected to the United States, Poteyev had provided the CIA with information that led to the high-profile arrest of 10 Russian illegals by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Poteyev was reportedly in charge of the SVR’s Directorate “S”, which oversees the work of illegals -a term that refers to SVR operations officers who work in without official cover around the world. Walton, Russian intelligence targeted Aleksandr Poteyev, who served as Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) from 2000 until 2010. The alleged assassination plan is discussed in the forthcoming book Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Simon and Schuster), authored by Harvard University academic Calder Walton.Īccording to Dr. THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES planned to assassinate a Russian former intelligence officer, who had defected to the United States and was living in an apartment complex in Florida, according to a new report. ![]()
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