On Monday, CNN
reported that the US had "successfully extracted from Russia one of its
highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government".
MOSCOW, September 10.
/TASS/. Oleg Smolenkov, a Russian national, whom media reports refer to as a
possible CIA agent, has never worked for the Administrative Directorate of the
President of the Russian Federation.
"He has never
worked for the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian
Federation," Elena Krylova, Spokesperson for the head of the Russian
Presidential Administrative Directorate, told TASS, commenting on reports
alleging that Smolenkov was its employee prior to 2017.
On Monday, CNN
reported that the United States had "successfully extracted from Russia
one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government."
For its part, the New York Times noted that the "longtime source landed an
influential position that came with access to the highest level of the
Kremlin."
Some Russian media
outlets reported citing anonymous sources that the individual in question could
be someone named Oleg Smolenkov, who supposedly worked for the government. Some
of them mentioned Smolenkov’s other places of employment.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-09-2019
