Spying may not be the gentleman's game it appears to be in James Bond movies, but Russia's foreign intelligence agency says agents should not go around impersonating one another.
Yuri Kobaladze, spokesman for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), criticized U.S. spy-catching techniques on Wednesday after an American army sergeant was charged with selling secrets to Moscow.Kobaladze said the method used by the American investigators to snare their suspect - having a U.S. agent pose as a Russian offering to pay for secrets - was "provocative."
"They took up a provocative weapon: using the Russian flag to recruit an American citizen," he said.
"Imagine how Washington would react if the same method were used in the arsenal of Russian counterintelligence."