CNN Declassified October 28, 2019 06:23:00
Russia announcing stanisl stanislav gustav's arrival. your intention, your request for that person to be accredited as a diplomat. the standard procedure for us is to check with the intelligence community just to see what pops up. a lot of times there's nothing. the assumption is they're a clean diplomat. in his case it did not come back he was a clean diplomat. he was specifically a line o.t. officer. his predecessor was the line ofrmt o.t. chief in the embassy, and he was replacing him. everything matched. so even though we knew he was the spy state department, still accredited gusev as a di...
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