Sentences with phrase «diplomatic cover»

Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

WASHINGTON — Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

But both men, intelligence officers working under diplomatic cover, would later say they heard sharp, disorienting sounds in their homes at night.

Intelligence officials, for their part, have continued to emphasize a pattern they see as anything but coincidental: The first four Americans to report being struck by the phenomenon — including the fit - looking man in his 30s — were all CIA officers working under diplomatic cover, as were two others affected later on.

They also seemed carefully targeted to CIA officers working under diplomatic cover.

It is difficult to think of a conflict that was not in some way influenced by other states, somewhere along the spectrum from media support, diplomatic cover, supplying weapons, sharing intelligence, through training forces, deploying troops and military hardware, all the way to directing or fabricating the existence of a proxy force from abroad.