MOSCOW – U.S. spies under diplomatic cover sneaking along Russia’s borders with Europe. Ten thousand dollars and a recruitment letter shoved into a Russian diplomat’s car.
Those are just some of the sensational allegations that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov leveled against the United States on Jan. 17 as he laid out Moscow’s case against Washington in the hidden intelligence war. Many of the alleged incidents were previously undisclosed. In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby declined to respond directly to Lavrov’s allegations about trying to turn diplomats into spies.
