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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/europe/embassy-moscow-kgb.html
So the Trump administration is trusting a Russian firm run by a former Russian spook to provide security for our U.S. embassies and consulates in Russia! What could go wrong? If Trump wants to dispel rumors that he's a Russian puppet, this is not the way to go about it.
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.
So the Trump administration is trusting a Russian firm run by a former Russian spook to provide security for our U.S. embassies and consulates in Russia! What could go wrong? If Trump wants to dispel rumors that he's a Russian puppet, this is not the way to go about it.