Russia and US Expelling Diplomats After CIA Agent Wrestled Russian at Moscow Embassy

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
July 9, 2016

Well, hey.

The lead-up to WWIII shouldn’t be totally without lulz.

That would be unnecessary and wrong.

USA Today:

Russia expelled two U.S. diplomats in retaliation for a similar move against two Russian diplomats stemming from a bizarre fracas last month between a U.S. diplomat and a Russian guard at the entrance to the U.S. embassy compound in Moscow.

The Russian foreign ministry, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said in a statement Saturday that one of the expelled U.S. diplomats was involved in the embassy confrontation June 6. Another diplomat was “also a CIA operative,” Ryabkov said, Reuters and the AFP news agency reported.

Ryabkov said the two U.S. diplomats were declared persona non grata.

“We hope that they in Washington will realize all the viciousness of the aggressive anti-Russia line. If they decide there to move on the path of escalation, they won’t be left without a response,” the statement quoted Ryabkov as saying.

In the embassy incident, the American diplomat and Russian guard are shown on surveillance video wrestling and falling to the ground. The video, broadcast last week by Russia’s NTV, shows two men struggling on the ground with the American eventually wriggling to the door and pulling himself inside.

The report claimed that the diplomat was returning from an “intelligence operations” and, NTV alleged, was wearing a cap so that he could not be easily remembered by the taxi driver or Russian guards.

The TV report identified the man as a career CIA officer allegedly working undercover as third secretary in the embassy political department. NTV did not clarify the source of the video.

In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday two Russian officials were expelled June 17 in retaliation for the “beating” last month of a U.S. diplomat in Moscow.

He said the American was an “an accredited U.S. diplomat.” Kirby declined to comment on the incident, but expressed frustration over the treatment of U.S. diplomats in Russia in recent years.

“We are extremely troubled by the way our employees have been treated over the past couple of years and we’ve raised those concerns at the highest levels,” Kirby told reporters, according to the Associated Press. “Harassment and surveillance of our diplomatic personnel in Moscow by security personnel and by traffic police have increased significantly and we find this absolutely unacceptable.”

Kirby said the attack was “unprovoked and it endangered the safety of our employee.”

Yes, attacks do endanger safety.

Though all they were doing is wrestling.

And the fact that he was fleeing into the embassy seems to confirm Moscow’s claim that he’s CIA, no?