Up to $1 Mln offered to Russian intel agent by alleged CIA recruiter - TV
MOSCOW. May 14 (Interfax) - An alleged CIA agent detained in Moscow offered up to $1 million a year to a Russian intelligence officer he had allegedly tried to recruit, according a copy of a letter shown by Russia Today television.
"We are ready to offer you $100,000 and discuss your experience, expertise and cooperation. The sum may be much higher if you are ready to answer specific questions. In addition, for long-term cooperation we offer up to $1,000,000 a year with a promise of extra bonuses for information that can help us," the letter read in part.
It was reported earlier that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Ryan Christopher Fogle, a CIA operative, in an act of recruiting an officer of a Russian special service.
According to the FSB's Public Relations Center, Fogle was working in Moscow as third secretary of the U.S. Embassy's Political Department.
Special technical devices, written instructions for the Russian citizen being recruited, a large sum of money in cash and appearance disguising means were discovered during the detention.
"The CIA has made several attempts lately to recruit officers of Russian law enforcement services and agencies, which were tracked and monitored by the FSB's counterintelligence service," the Public Relations Center said.
Interfax has learned that Fogle's arrest was carried out on Akademika Pilyugina Street, next to Vorontsovo Park in the city's southwest.
Some sources have said the man Fogle is said to have tried to recruit is a counterintelligence agent, but there have been no confirmed reports on which intelligence service he represents.
