Putin’s revenge: Russia’s failed assassination attempt on a CIA informant in Florida
NEW YORK, JUNE 20: As President Vladimir V Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the US Government on American soil. The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a CIA informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Putin's campaign of targeted assassinations. It also signalled a dangerously low point even between intelligence services that have long...
