Sentences with phrase «western intelligence source»

At their alleged meeting, Sechin raised the issue of the lifting of sanctions with Page, the Western intelligence source said.

But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three - day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian's leading oil company, a well - placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.

It's unclear what he did or who he met with before and after giving the speech, but Yahoo's Michael Isikoff, citing a Western intelligence source, reported in September that Page met with Igor Sechin during his trip.

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The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

A source close to Djalali revealed that in 2014 he was approached by agents of the Iranian military intelligence that asked him to collect information on Western chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear sites, as well as on critical infrastructures and counter-terrorism operational plans.