The Kremlin played down reports of a CIA spy inside Russia's presidential administration, but said an official identified by Russian media as the likely U.S. mole had worked there although he did not have access to Putin
* Kremlin plays down significance of alleged U.S. spy* Alleged agent's Virginia address published in Russia MOSCOW/LONDON, Sept 10 - The Kremlin played down reports of a CIA spy inside Russia's presidential administration, but said an official identified by Russian media as the likely U.S. mole had worked there although he did not have access to President Vladimir Putin.
The sources indicated that U.S. officials were seriously concerned that Kremlin officials had made public what they claimed was the individual's name. Kommersant published a picture of a house in Virginia which it said had been later bought by the Smolenkovs and linked to details of the property's purchase, including its exact address, in a real estate listing and a local county tax filing.
"It is true that Smolenkov worked in the presidential administration, but he was fired several years ago. His job was not at a senior official level," said Peskov. "All this U.S. media speculation about who urgently extracted who and saved who from who and so on - this is more the genre of pulp fiction, crime reading, so let's leave it up to them," said Peskov.
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