Under Suspicion

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CNN said President Trump will meet with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in 2017, had the CIA

frightened popped up More details of an alleged high-level spy in the U.S. according to reports, extracted from Russia amid fears that his cover was blown.

Russian media called him as Oleg Smolenkov, who works for a key aide to President Vladimir Putin .

Mr Smolenkov was not the senior who had been fired years, and after the extraction reports of fiction have been said of the Kremlin.

the CIA feared The President Trump had the "incorrect handling" of intelligence could be The Spy in danger.

CNN said the extraction came after The President met with senior Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at the White house in may 2017 and unexpectedly had shared classified US intelligence services.

The CIA, told CNN coverage of the extraction was headed "missing" and "simply wrong".

Later, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described The Report as "factually incorrect".

What was report in the alleged U.S. media?

CNN has published The First report on Monday citing "several Trump administration officials with direct knowledge" of the exhaust air operation.

The alleged agent was not named by US media, but it was claimed that The Intelligence asset was the highest U.S. source in Russia, with regular access to President Putin.

The reports, The Source said had spied for the United States for More Than a decade.

The New York Times said The Agent was instrumental in the conclusion by US intelligence services in the year 2016, that Mr. Putin had personally orchestrated Russia's intervention in the presidential elections in the United States.

But, her report said, the CIA wanted to extract to, The Agent , before Mr. Trump took office because of investigations, the media, the asset-Risk . It was not a proposal from President Trump had a direct threat to The Source , it said.

On Tuesday, CNN quoted sources, who had served under Mr. Trump, as I said, because it damaged the relationships with other Nations.

How Russia has responded?

in the Russian media was quick to name Oleg Smolenkov.

The newspaper "Kommersant" said that he had been on holiday with His Family to Montenegro in the year 2017, and disappeared, before A Man with the same name and a woman with the same name as Mr Smolenkov wife bought A House in the US State of Virginia, close to Washington DC.

Law enforcement sources told "Kommersant" that Moscow had investigated whether Mr Smolenkov had been killed, in Montenegro, but concluded that he now lives abroad.

Without the name of the alleged agent, at The Request of U.S. officials, Nbc News , One of his reporters said had visited in Virginia on Monday and found The Man was "living openly under his true name". The reporter was followed by two men in an SUV when he rang the bell, NBC said.

Russian reports said that Mr Smolenkov was for Yuri Ushakov, senior foreign policy aides to President Putin and former Russian Ambassador to the United States.

Mr Smolenkov was with Mr. Ushakov in the United States for A Number of years, until the last One was recalled in 2008.

A former colleague said to Ria Novosti that Mr Smolenkov dealt with administrative matters such as purchases for the message.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov : "This is more said the genre of pulp-fiction -, Thriller-reading"

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov , said: "It is true that Smolenkov worked in the administration of The President , but he was fired a few years ago. His job was not on the level of senior officials. "

He could not confirm whether Mr Smolenkov was a spy, nor why he was dismissed, but added: "All of these U.S. media speculation about who will be saved urgently extracted, the and who of whom, and so on - this is more of the genre of Pulp Fiction , crime fiction reading, so we will leave it up to you. "

Mr Lavrov said he did not know Mr Smolenkov. "I've never seen him, I have never met him, and I said neither is an overview of his career, still his movements," the Minister of foreign Affairs.

He added that no State secrets had been passed to the White house meeting with Mr Trump.

How hard is it to extract a mole?

BBC security correspondent, Gordon Corera

Getting an agent from Moscow can be a challenge, but what comes after that can be even harder. During the Cold War , British and American intelligence services came up with a series of plans to extract agents.

The Most dramatic was the smuggling of KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky on the Finnish border in the boot of an MI6 officer's car. This was particularly difficult because he was already Under Suspicion . If an agent is not under the watch, then it is easier for you to just disappear on a business trip or vacation. But this is not the end of the story.

Russian (and formerly) Soviet intelligence has shown that a willingness and desire to go after such agent, after you have fled. The Most recent example is Sergei Skripal was (which she had in a swap, after he's pardoned). This means that the protection of the agents, and after in The West , and offers long-term security just as exhausting, as always, in the First Place .

It sounds like the stuff of John le Carré spy novel. A high-level intelligence asset - the One to sabotage the important information about the attempt of a US presidential Election - is extracted from Russia in The Face of potentially serious Risk .

If there are multiple reports in the media, are of the opinion, however, this is Real Life - and the political consequences could be significant.

the result of The highlights of the U.S. intelligence Community worried about Donald Trump and his associates in the early days of his presidency. It is the conclusion that an undisciplined commander-in-can represent chief, a National Security Risk reflects, even If Only accidentally.

These concerns were already known to the public, of course, but this is The Most dramatic example of the consequences.

The trump card-the government has vehemently coverage is denied. The President , who has spent much of his time with warring, and to condemn, occasionally directly, the U.S. intelligence Community , the so-called "Deep State ", - is sure to be angry.

This revelation happened only White house tensions with, and suspicions about the staff, providing The President with secret information about the world all the more acute.

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Source of news: bbc.com