The State Department is so worried that a Russian diplomatic compound in the Bronx is serving as a Russian spy hub that it held a classified briefing about the compound on Friday.
In 2015, the FBI arrested Evgeniy Buryakov, a Russian man who eventually pleaded guilty to working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service , and who lived nearby the compound. He worked under non-official cover and appeared to have a regular job as a banker in Manhattan, but really traded coded messages with Russian spies that went straight back to Moscow, according to theIn a classic case of spy versus spy, U.S.
Although the contents of the State Department’s classified briefing aren’t clear, the status of the compound still appears to hang in the balance. The kind of investigation Torres is asking about—one that touches on counterespionage—would typically fall to the FBI, which is the top agency in the United States for preventing, investigating, and exposing intelligence operations in the United States.
But the FBI’s decision to back off doesn’t add up given its keen interest in the compound, according to Sipher. “OFM is a pretty small operation and any capacity that they would have to investigate would be fairly limited, certainly not to look into major intelligence issues of interest. That’s not their area. They would be responsible for abuses, parking passes, those kind of minor administrative matters,” Bruen said. “I just don’t envision any scenario in which they would be charged with looking into intelligence activities of another country or even a compound.
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