The incident at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which occurred on the night of June 6, really belonged to the security services. This is the Washington Post confirmed that two unnamed U.S. official.
According to them, the diplomat was actually working undercover as a U.S. intelligence officer. Behavior American due to the fact that he sought to hide in the building of the diplomatic mission to avoid arrest by Russian special services, who chased him.
Sources also claim that the American went past the guard post and entered the territory that is the property of the Embassy, however, one FSB officer rushed to him and threw him on the ground. The diplomat eventually escaped and proceeded to the Embassy.
The same publication on the day of the incident, published an article which reported about the attack of the guard in the form of FSB American diplomat at the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
According to the Russian foreign Ministry, the American Embassy tried to penetrate the unknown man. Instead of having to produce ID, he hit the attendant with his elbow in the face and fled the territory of the Embassy. When it became clear that the assailant is an American diplomat, the foreign Ministry said the Embassy of the United States strong protest.
Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that this diplomat is actually a CIA officer. In her words, “a trivial incident from the life of an ordinary employee of the CIA was developed by our American colleagues in the Russian police attack on innocent American diplomat”.
