Russia
Spies for CIA in North Korea
On January
19, 2003, in a front page scoop in the New York Times,
James Risen reported that "Russian intelligence officers
secretly placed sophisticated nuclear detection equipment
inside North Korea at the request of the Central Intelligence
Agency in the 1990's, to assist the United States in
tracking the North Korean nuclear weapons program, intelligence
officials say. The C.I.A. trained officers from the
S.V.R., the Russian intelligence agency, in the operation
of the American equipment, and the Russians then shared
their findings with the Americans," explaining further
" The decision by the C.I.A. to turn to the Russians
for help also demonstrates how the United States has
been forced to rely on assistance from other nations
to collect information from inside North Korea." The
assistance involved collecting air samples in the North
Korean capital to see if they contained any traces associated
with plutonium reprocessing for nuclear bombs.
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