we're learning tonight the u.s. government has hired a private firm in russia to provide security guards at the american embassy in mow moscow. security guards in moscow. one source is reporting that they are hiring one who has become the head of the soviet counterintelligence. i want to talk about all of this now with cnn national security analyst steve hall, the retired chief of cia russian operations. fascina fascinating, steve. thank you for joining us here. it sounds like a bad idea, but you say that the reality is, the fsb, today's version of the kgb, already has control of pretty much any russian who works at the u.s. embassy anyway? >> yeah, it is a little counterintuitive, don, it sounds like a very bad idea, right? i think what you have to understand are two things. the situation on the ground in russia, basically that vladimir putin controls everything that happens in that