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Colonel Sergei Mikhailov was arrested in December on the charge that he leaked information to the US allegedly showing that the FSB hacked and meddled in the American presidential election.
A new report from TV channel REN claims Sergei Mikhailov was originally recruited by the CIA during a vacation in a Mediterranean country. They added, citing security services sources, that he was considered a high level cyber asset by American intelligence heads.
In addition, investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Sergei Mikhailov used a fake identity for up to seven years, strengthening the claim he was operating as a CIA double agent.
'It was suspected that perhaps Mikhailov is not really called Mikhailov,' Novaya Gazeta reported. “Two sources pointed to him being 'a foreign intelligence mole inside the FSB’.”
The report by Novaya Gazeta stated that Sergei Mikhailov’s resume showed he was born in the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus and later came to Russia in the mid-1990’s, claiming citizenship, joining the FSB, and subsequently rising quickly through the ranks to the high position of department head in the FSB’s Center for Information Security.
“But an investigation carried out by respected veterans of the SVR foreign intelligence service, the FSB, and the Interior Ministry 'failed to find any evidence that Mikhailov was born and raised in Belarus’”, Novaya Gazeta reported.
“The startling conclusion of a 'man with no past' at the heart of the FSB's cyber operation was handed in a memorandum to the agency's leadership, along with suspicions that from 2010 he had been handing data to the Americans,” Novaya Gazeta continued.
“The dossier on Mikhailov was commissioned by an IT company with whom he had come into conflict,” Novaya Gazeta wrote. “Having realized that they had gone too far, the ex-officers...made a report about their "findings" and sent it to the FSB.”
Daily Mail Moscow correspondent Will Stewart was told by an unnamed Russian intelligence analyst that all these factors made Sergei Mikhailov a “spectacular asset” for the US.
“This dramatic scenario if confirmed poses significant questions on where he came from, who he is, a plant? How long he has been feeding the Americans,” the analyst told Stewart.
Russian news site Life.ru, which according to Stewart has close links to the FSB, reported separately that $12 million was seized from Sergei Mikhailov’s Moscow apartment and his country home — named a ‘dacha’ by the outlet.
To date, the Russian government has not provided the public with details regarding their case against Sergei Mikhailov, and his subordinate Dmitri Dokuchahaev, 33 — alias: Dokuchaev — a known former hacker who went by the nickname 'Forb' before being reportedly recruited into the FSB under the threat of prosecution for previous crimes. The secrecy is likely being employed , Stewart noted, because the investigation will ultimately lead to a close-door trail in military court.
A source told Stewart that both Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitri Dokuchahaev are being accused of having “violated their oath by cooperating with the CIA.”
In addition to the facing charges of treason in Russia, TRUNEWS reported in February thar Dmitri Dokuchahaev was indicted by Department of Justice (DOJ) under his alias name, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, for his alleged involvement in the theft of information from 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014, including those used by the U.S. military and major banks.
According to the warrant issued by the FBI, Dmitri Dokuchahaev is wanted for conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse; accessing a computer without authorization for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain; damaging a computer through the transmission of code and commands; economic espionage; theft of trade secrets; access device fraud; aggravated identity theft; and wire fraud.
Tsargrad TV levied the charge that Sergei Mikhailov is directly responsible for passing information to the CIA that was ultimately used by the Obama administration to make the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
They claimed that Mikhailov and his deputy Dmitri Dokuchahaev received regular cash payments from the CIA the passage of the data to Ruslan Stoyanov, a manager from the cybersecurity and anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab, who was also charged with treason by the Russian government in December.
Lastly, according to Stewart, Mikhailov is suspected of giving the US information on Vladimir Fomenko, 26, who is the owner of an internet company in the Altai region of Siberia called King Servers.
According to US cybersecurity company Threat-Connect, King Servers was allegedly used by unknown hackers to breach election system databases in Illinois and Arizona in 2016.
Rosbalt news agency reported that data provided by Mikhailov and his associates was transferred to “acquaintances abroad” who worked closely with foreign special services believed to be American.
'This is not a one-off story, this activity was carried out for a minimum of seven years and caused substantial harm to the interests of the Russian Federation,' Rosbalt source said.
http://www.trunews.com/article/cia-paid-fsb-traitor-with-fake-identity-to-frame-russia
A new report from TV channel REN claims Sergei Mikhailov was originally recruited by the CIA during a vacation in a Mediterranean country. They added, citing security services sources, that he was considered a high level cyber asset by American intelligence heads.
In addition, investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Sergei Mikhailov used a fake identity for up to seven years, strengthening the claim he was operating as a CIA double agent.
'It was suspected that perhaps Mikhailov is not really called Mikhailov,' Novaya Gazeta reported. “Two sources pointed to him being 'a foreign intelligence mole inside the FSB’.”
The report by Novaya Gazeta stated that Sergei Mikhailov’s resume showed he was born in the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus and later came to Russia in the mid-1990’s, claiming citizenship, joining the FSB, and subsequently rising quickly through the ranks to the high position of department head in the FSB’s Center for Information Security.
“But an investigation carried out by respected veterans of the SVR foreign intelligence service, the FSB, and the Interior Ministry 'failed to find any evidence that Mikhailov was born and raised in Belarus’”, Novaya Gazeta reported.
“The startling conclusion of a 'man with no past' at the heart of the FSB's cyber operation was handed in a memorandum to the agency's leadership, along with suspicions that from 2010 he had been handing data to the Americans,” Novaya Gazeta continued.
“The dossier on Mikhailov was commissioned by an IT company with whom he had come into conflict,” Novaya Gazeta wrote. “Having realized that they had gone too far, the ex-officers...made a report about their "findings" and sent it to the FSB.”
Daily Mail Moscow correspondent Will Stewart was told by an unnamed Russian intelligence analyst that all these factors made Sergei Mikhailov a “spectacular asset” for the US.
“This dramatic scenario if confirmed poses significant questions on where he came from, who he is, a plant? How long he has been feeding the Americans,” the analyst told Stewart.
Russian news site Life.ru, which according to Stewart has close links to the FSB, reported separately that $12 million was seized from Sergei Mikhailov’s Moscow apartment and his country home — named a ‘dacha’ by the outlet.
To date, the Russian government has not provided the public with details regarding their case against Sergei Mikhailov, and his subordinate Dmitri Dokuchahaev, 33 — alias: Dokuchaev — a known former hacker who went by the nickname 'Forb' before being reportedly recruited into the FSB under the threat of prosecution for previous crimes. The secrecy is likely being employed , Stewart noted, because the investigation will ultimately lead to a close-door trail in military court.
A source told Stewart that both Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitri Dokuchahaev are being accused of having “violated their oath by cooperating with the CIA.”
In addition to the facing charges of treason in Russia, TRUNEWS reported in February thar Dmitri Dokuchahaev was indicted by Department of Justice (DOJ) under his alias name, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, for his alleged involvement in the theft of information from 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014, including those used by the U.S. military and major banks.
According to the warrant issued by the FBI, Dmitri Dokuchahaev is wanted for conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse; accessing a computer without authorization for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain; damaging a computer through the transmission of code and commands; economic espionage; theft of trade secrets; access device fraud; aggravated identity theft; and wire fraud.
Tsargrad TV levied the charge that Sergei Mikhailov is directly responsible for passing information to the CIA that was ultimately used by the Obama administration to make the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
They claimed that Mikhailov and his deputy Dmitri Dokuchahaev received regular cash payments from the CIA the passage of the data to Ruslan Stoyanov, a manager from the cybersecurity and anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab, who was also charged with treason by the Russian government in December.
Lastly, according to Stewart, Mikhailov is suspected of giving the US information on Vladimir Fomenko, 26, who is the owner of an internet company in the Altai region of Siberia called King Servers.
According to US cybersecurity company Threat-Connect, King Servers was allegedly used by unknown hackers to breach election system databases in Illinois and Arizona in 2016.
Rosbalt news agency reported that data provided by Mikhailov and his associates was transferred to “acquaintances abroad” who worked closely with foreign special services believed to be American.
'This is not a one-off story, this activity was carried out for a minimum of seven years and caused substantial harm to the interests of the Russian Federation,' Rosbalt source said.
http://www.trunews.com/article/cia-paid-fsb-traitor-with-fake-identity-to-frame-russia
