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  • 2019-09-12 (xsd:date)
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  • but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making — easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets."Washington has not confirmed media reports of Smolenkov’s role (en)
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  • Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has commented on reports that an alleged highly valuable U.S. Central Intelligence Agency source inside the Russian government was extracted from Russia in 2017 following fears he would be outed.The New York Times reported that the intelligence asset provided information critical to the CIA’s assessment that President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a covert operation to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.The Russian newspaper Kommersant identified the alleged spy as former Russian presidential staffer Oleg Smolenkov.On September 11, Peskov said the Kremlin did not know if Smolenkov was a spy, adding that it was a question for Russia’s security services to sort out.A day earlier, Peskov had played down the alleged value of Smolenknov, saying he had not held a senior position and had been dismissed several years ago. That is misleading.In 2010, by decree of then-President Dmitry Medvedev, Smolenkov was assigned the rank of 3rd Class Acting State Advisor to the Russian Federation, which is equivalent to the military rank of major general, Kommersant reported.As spelled out in a February 2005 presidential decree, that rank put Smolenkov’s position in the top group" of civil service posts.A screen capture of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation posted by the Nizhny Novogorod Regional Court outlining Russian state civil service ranks.According to the New York Times (en)
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