"Russian intelligence and security services
have been waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against U.S.
diplomats, embassy staff and their families in Moscow and several other
European capitals that has rattled ambassadors and prompted Secretary of
State John F. Kerry to ask Vladimir Putin to put a stop to it.
"But many of the recent acts of intimidation by Russian security services have crossed the line into apparent criminality. In a series of secret memos sent back to Washington, described to me by several current and former U.S. officials who have written or read them, diplomats reported that Russian intruders had broken into their homes late at night, only to rearrange the furniture or turn on all the lights and televisions, and then leave. One diplomat reported that an intruder had defecated on his living room carpet.
"In Moscow, where the harassment is most pervasive, diplomats reported slashed tires and regular harassment by traffic police. Former ambassador Michael McFaul was hounded by government-paid protesters, and intelligence personnel followed his children to school. The harassment is not new; in the first term of the Obama administration, Russian intelligence personnel broke into the house of the U.S. defense attache in Moscow and killed his dog, according to multiple former officials who read the intelligence reports."
To read Rogin's entire report, click HERE.
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