"Do you have a copy of the letter?" - asked Captain Oleg Kulikov, "- narrates in his article in The Daily Beast Navid Jamali, the author of the book" How to catch a Russian spy "(How to Catch a Russian Spy). "I just told the Russian intelligence officer that I was accepted into the US Naval Intelligence Reserve program and will soon be an intelligence officer," he writes..

According to the author, Oleg wanted to "bring his superiors more solid evidence in support of the importance of the person who recruited to spy on Russia," reads the article.

The author continues: "There is nothing surprising in the fact that Russia is actively engaged in the collection of intelligence about the United States and conducts operations to weaken America".

The author points out that although the Russian prosecutor's office does not mention the 13 Russian citizens in the indictment of the special prosecutor Muller, the methods described are typical for Russian intelligence services.

"Based on my experience as a double agent against Russian intelligence in 2005-2009, I know that they are gathering intelligence by selecting their targets for Americans and recruiting them as operational assets," said Jamali.

It is often asked why recruit spies in the digital age - is it impossible to collect intelligence data remotely?.

Jamali replies: "As the years of conversations with Russian intelligence have taught me, they are incredulous if they are not prone to paranoia.

So, I found out that the Russians tried to moderate their suspicions, trying to understand the nature of the source, which supplies them with intelligence data - and this requires face-to-face meetings ". Jamali informs that he played to the Russian curators the role of a arrogant young man, for whom the Navy's service was the only way to obtain information that can be sold to Russia and enriched.

"The news that Jared Kushner's admission to top-secret information" downgraded "caused me tremendous relief," the author notes..