Russian security services name CIA Moscow chief

Russia's security services openly named the US intelligence agency's station chief in Moscow to media today 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."
Kremlin-funded television channel RT on its website Friday cited an FSB operative as saying that "in the case with Fogle, the CIA crossed a red line and we had no choice but to react observing official procedures."

The FSB agent told RT that the Russian security agency held a 2011 meeting with the CIA chief of station in Moscow.

RT also named the station chief although it gave a slightly different surname than Interfax.
"We decided to warn our American colleagues and ask them to stop these activities," the FSB agent told RT.
"We hoped our American colleagues would hear us, given that we also presented to them precise information about CIA officers making recruitment attempts in Moscow and who exactly was doing that."
An FSB agent interviewed by Russian state television on Wednesday with his voice distorted and his face concealed said that Russia already knew Fogle was from the CIA when he arrived in spring 2011 and immediately put him under surveillance.

President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov on Wednesday accused the United States of "crude and clumsy" spying in Russia.