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Former Interior Minister, ex-member of the State Duma Committee on Security from the Stavropol Territory Anatoly Kulikov commented on the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the presence of American spies in the Russian government in the 1990s.
According to him, there were no CIA agents in the Interior Ministry and the departments under his control. The same applies to the ministries and departments that he oversaw when he was deputy Prime Minister. We are talking about the Ministry of Emergency Situations, railway troops, currency and export control and drug control, the tax service and the tax police, the Telegram channel of the NSN Radio channel reports.
Nevertheless, Kulikov does not deny the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the presence of CIA officers in the 1990-2000-ies in the Russian government. According to him, Putin worked in the FSB Council at that time, and he “knows better”. “But if the president speaks, it means that it was so,” he stressed.
Vladimir Putin said earlier that US CIA personnel in the mid-1990s worked in Russia as advisers, official employees of the Russian government. He reported this information during a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. The Russian leader added that in the early 2000s they were all cleaned out.
Moreover, in the USA they were later brought to criminal responsibility for the fact that they, being CIA employees and working in the Russian Federation, “violated American legislation, participated in privatization”.