Ukraine playing the role of David against Russia’s Goliath is impressive optics, but it’s not happening in a vacuum, FrankFigliuzzi1 writes.
First, here at home, we’ve learned that 12 officials assigned to the Russian mission to the United Nations werefor conduct outside the scope of their diplomatic duties, which means they were likely intelligence officers previously identified by the FBI as spying for Russian President Vladimir Putin. What we don’t know is the story behind the decision to expel them, or, more interestingly, to not expel theworking here under both diplomatic and nonofficial cover positions.
At the FBI, decisions to declare foreign intelligence officers “persona non grata” include the need to retain those officers who have been recruited, and are secretly working for the U.S., or those officers whose communications are successfully compromised. In these scenarios, that likely means Putin’s counterintelligence team is working overtime theorizing which spies of theirs in the U.S. haven't been expelled because their expulsion would constitute a loss for the U.S.
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