Putin spoke about the CIA officers who worked in the Russian government in the 90s

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In the 1990s, employees of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in the Russian government, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. According to him, later in the United States, these people were convicted of participating in privatization in Russia.

“In the early 2000s, I already cleaned everyone out, but in the mid-1990s, as it turned out, as advisers, official employees of the Russian government, there were staff members of the US CIA,” he said (quoted by RIA Novosti) …

In 2013, during a direct line, the president said that during the era of privatization, while Anatoly Chubais worked in the Russian government, CIA officers worked in his entourage. He called this circumstance “funny” and added that after returning to the United States, these agents were tried: “According to American law, they were not allowed to engage in commercial activities.”

Putin did not give the names of these employees. According to RIA Novosti, the same CIA agents could have been the Russian government’s privatization consultants Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay. The agency was told about this by a source who worked in Chubais’s team in the 90s. They arrived in Russia under the USAID-funded Assistance Program for the Transition to a Market Economy. They were tried after a three-year investigation in Boston in the mid-2000s. for the use of official position for the purpose of personal enrichment. The prosecution estimated the damage they caused to America at $ 34 million.

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