Russia's security services openly named the US intelligence agency's station chief in Moscow to media on Friday in a rare breach of protocol that followed their capture of an alleged CIA agent who was working undercover at the US embassy. Russia announced this week that it had caught alleged agent Ryan Fogle as he prepared to recruit a member of the Russian security forces.
Footage was aired showing him wearing a blond wig and his array of spying equipment including a compass and an old-fashioned mobile phone. An unnamed representative of the FSB security services told the Interfax news agency that back in 2011 the agency had "officially warned the CIA station chief in Moscow" over what it called "provocative recruiting moves towards Russian security services officers", and threatened "reciprocal measures towards CIA officers."
The report gave the full name of the alleged CIA chief of station in Moscow. It also named another alleged CIA agent who had worked at the US embassy in Moscow, saying that he was declared persona non grata and left in January after he "carried out a similar action to Fogle."