CNN on Sept. 9 reported that in “a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government.”
CNN wrote that “knowledge of the Russian covert source’s existence was highly restricted within the U.S. government and intelligence agencies” and that “according to one source, there was ‘no equal alternative’ inside the Russian government, providing both insight and information on [President Vladimir] Putin.”
