Two CIA employees who worked at the US Embassy were sent from Russia

Two CIA employees who worked at the US Embassy were sent from Russia, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov. Persons of Non Grata were declared a rowdy , who arranged a brawl at the entrance, and his colleague. On Saturday night, the State Department announced the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from the United States.

Ryabkov said to TASS: “Following their unfriendly step from Moscow, two US Embassy employees had to leave. They were announced“ Person Non Grat ”for activities incompatible with diplomatic status,” Ryabkov noted. “This is the same night hooligan (CIA employee who hit the Russian police officer at the Embassy of the United States) and another CIA operative.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the United States was the first to act, and Russia only took symmetrical measures: “I can confirm that with reference to the above case, the US authorities really demanded that two employees of the Russian Embassy in Washington, without presenting any complaints about them. And in the State Department, we were invited not to betray this fact of viger. diplomats ". (Quote for RIA "Novosti" .)

Earlier, the program on the NTV television channel was called the name of the American, who was supposedly and was a man who triumph with the guard: this is "the third secretary of the political department Daniel Van Dyken, part -time personnel officer of the CIA, who was returned from an intelligence operation on that day (June 6)."

The first to write about the incident was the American newspaper The Washington Post. The publication reported that on June 6, a security guard of the US Embassy in Moscow, dressed in the uniform of the FSB, beat an American diplomat who tried to enter the department of the department in the Presnensky district of Moscow. The diplomat allegedly received several injuries and a fracture of the shoulder, but still was able to get into the building, and then flew out of the country to receive medical care.

In an article dated July 7, the newspaper, citing sources, confirmed the version of the Russian Foreign Ministry that the diplomat worked under the cover of US intelligence services.

However, the representative of the State Department, John Kirby, who announced the offense of Russian diplomats from the United States, announced on the eve of the expulsion of Russian diplomats, did not speak of spies and refused to explain to reporters the reasons for the announcement of Russians by persons Non Grata.