Russia’s top spy warns of new CIA scheme
US spooks are considering the creation of a fake Russian government-in-exile, Sergey Naryshkin has claimed | The US government allegedly plans to back the declaration of a new Russian nation-state and its self-proclaimed government, which would operate outside of the actual country, according to Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Foreign Security Service (SVR). ● The senior intelligence official mentioned the purported scheme during a meeting with his counterparts from former Soviet nations in Minsk on Thursday, dismissing it as “absurd.” ● “The CIA is considering a project of creation of a virtual supposedly legitimate state outside of Russian Federation, a so-called ‘Russian Republic’ headed by a so-called ‘interim administration’,” he explained. ● The US goal is to destabilize the situation in the country ahead of next year’s presidential election, Naryshkin said. Self-exiled opposition forces will also try to “create a network of anti-government cells inside Russia” to further their ambitions, he added.