To make up for the loss of security guards axed in the Russian-mandated staff cuts, Washington has hired a private Russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by Mr. Putin’s former K.G.B. boss, an 82-year-old veteran spy who spent 25 years planting agents in Western security services and hunting down their operatives.The Trump administration is basically hiring Russian spies to guard our embassies. How can they be so stupid after the big scare over Kaspersky Antivirus, which the US government has now banned.
Under a $2.8 million no-bid contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions in Washington, security guards at the American Embassy in Moscow and at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be provided by Elite Security Holdings, a company closely linked to the former top K.G.B. figure, Viktor G. Budanov, a retired general who rose through the ranks to become head of Soviet counterintelligence.
What will these Russian guards do?
Marines will continue to guard American diplomatic missions, but tasks previously handled by local guards hired directly by the embassy in Moscow, like screening visitors, will be taken over Elite Security employees. Hiring guards directly allowed closer monitoring of their backgrounds, but any Russian working for an American diplomatic mission, no matter how closely screened, is vulnerable to pressure from Russia’s state security apparatus.It doesn't say exactly what "screening visitors" means. I'm assuming that it means checking them for weapons, bombs, spying devices, stolen documents, etc. Does it make any sense at all to trust these guys after our embassies and consulates in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Benghazi were attacked by terrorists?
Are Trump and Rex Tillerson, Exxon's secretary of state, openly colluding with the Russians, or are they just fucking morons?
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