From https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/russias-attempted-attack-inside-america-should-be-a-turning-point-for-trump/
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Russia does not seem to be limiting its campaign of subterfuge to the European continent.
In a press release late Tuesday night, the Justice Department detailed charges against Kremlin assets who set out to commission targeted killings and other terroristic acts inside America. Although not yet in custody, the defendants are accused of serving as "high-ranking" officials within the "RIS network," which has links to Russia's domestic security and military intelligence services. Their goal was to spill blood and sow chaos inside the U.S.
Via the DOJ:Quote:
Most recently, this summer, the RIS Network recruited an individual based in the United States ("U.S. Resident-1") to surveil and murder a prominent Russian dissident they believed to be residing in the United States. Among other things, SUAREZ sent U.S. Resident-1 two locations associated with Victim-1 to surveil; provided U.S. Resident-1 with explicit instructions on how to conduct surveillance; and promised U.S. Resident-1 between $1,000 and $1,500 to carry out the pre-operational surveillance. In turn, U.S. Resident-1 conducted the requested surveillance and passed back to SUAREZ multiple photographs and videos of locations associated with Victim-1. SUAREZ and CASTRO further offered U.S. Resident-1 $40,000 to "eliminate" or "disappear" Victim-1 and, when U.S. Resident-1 told them that he did not want to carry out the murder by his own hand, asked U.S. Resident-1 if he knew "someone [who] can do the work." SUAREZ also told U.S. Resident-1 that he had "people in Mexico" who could otherwise carry out the murder, but they were delayed in doing so. In addition, SUAREZ attempted to recruit multiple other individuals within the United States to conduct pre-operational surveillance and murder Victim-1 and other potential targets within the United States, and offered them substantial sums of money to carry out the targeting of the U.S.-based victims.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg couldn't have been more succinct in his summary of the Russian plot. "These defendants allegedly operated as part of a global assassination network that reached into the United States," he said, "attempting to recruit U.S. citizens and foreigners to carry out killings at the behest of the Kremlin."
