Lavrov: US diplomats changed into women to penetrate Russian objects

American diplomats used camouflage funds to penetrate Russian objects. According to TASS, this was announced during a large press conference in Moscow by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov.

US representatives put on wigs, changed into women, Lavrov pointed out. According to him, American diplomats were seen dressed at all kinds of rallies and protests, including unauthorized ones. “You can draw conclusions yourself,” the minister summed up.

He also noted that during the second term of the Barack Obama administration, the US recruitment activity against Russian diplomats increased. As an example, Interfax reports , Lavrov made an attempt to recruit a Russian diplomat who came to the United States to buy medicines for the treatment of ex-Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov.

“This is a case when we recruited our diplomat, an employee of the Consulate General who came to the doctor to pick up the paid medicine for Evgeny Maksimovich Primakov. In order to recruit in this situation, you must, of course, have specific professional arrogance and deep sense of cynicism and uncleanness,” Lavrov emphasized.

He added that this is not the only case. "We had approaches in April last year. Unprecedentedly, at the level of the second person at the embassy, ​​at the level of an adviser -sentenger there was a recruiting approach with a proposal to cooperate," the minister said.

According to him, the American intelligence agencies were literally put in his car in his absence 10 thousand thousand dollars with a proposal for cooperation. " “The money was capitalized by our accounting, and they are now working for the good of the Russian state,” added Lavrov.

At the same time, Lavrov called applications about the oppression of American diplomats in Moscow soundly groundless. "As for the statements that the American Embassy under President Obama was subjected to some special persecution - I see no reason in such statements," he said.

According to Lavrov, there were several episodes that became the property of publicity, and the Americans tried to present them as a hunt for US diplomats. “However, in fact, everything looks completely different - the intelligence activities of American representatives who work under a diplomatic cover were suppressed,” the minister said.

In October 2016, the representative of the State Department of Elizabeth Trudeau said that in Russia, cases of pressure on American diplomats were significantly more frequent . The pressure on the diplomats has been taking place for two years, Trudeau noted. She spoke about the frequent cases of "oppression and surveillance of diplomatic workers in Moscow by representatives of security services and the road police."

The official representative of the State Department emphasized that the United States consider such actions unacceptable. "We are worried about how in the last two years we have treated our diplomatic and consular employees. We have declared our fears at the highest level," Trudeau said

The day before, Radio Liberty announced the poisoning of two American officials with diplomatic passports at the UN Conference for Combating Corruption, held on November 2-6, 2015 in St. Petersburg. The victims, a man and a woman, survived, but one of them required hospitalization. He was taken to the Western Medical Clinic in St. Petersburg to take blood and tissue samples. However, after his arrival, electricity suddenly turned off there. Because of this, doctors could not establish the cause of the disease. As expected, a tranquilizer poured diplomats.

At the end of June, the media reported that the Kremlin’s special services systematically terrorize American diplomats working in Russia and European countries. It was told, in particular, about night cases of penetration of American officials into the houses. Also, the security forces were accused of piercing tires on the wheels of diplomats cars.

It was claimed that such antics have become more frequent after 2014, but they were committed earlier. Even in the first cadence of the US President Barack Obama, the media reported, the security forces killed the dog of an American military attache. The former ambassador of the United States in Russia, Michael McFaol, was said in the publication, confirmed that during work in Moscow, both he and his family were surveillance.