A Russian military bomber engineer drove up to the U.S. Southwest border in late December, asking for asylum and offering to reveal some of Russia's most closely guarded military secrets, according to an unclassified Customs and Border Protection report obtained by Yahoo News.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 7: Russian Tupolev TU-160 jet bomber strategic bomber flies over the Kremlin during the general rehearsals of the Victory Day Parade inf front of the Kremlin at Red Square, on May 7, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. The military parade at Red Square is planned for May 9 to commemorate the victory of Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in WWII, despite the corovavirus outbreak. A Russian military bomber engineer drove up to the U.S.
The CBP report is a daily roundup of items compiled by the agency’s National Border Security Intelligence Watch and is produced to highlight emerging trends or notable events for leadership. The center added a comment in bold italics after the paragraph detailing the engineer’s arrival and employment and explaining why his information could be valuable.
“An individual working at a defense industrial facility such as Tuplov could have access to a range of information on defense industrial production, specifications related to the Tu-160 bomber and its more recently developed modernized variant, various production processes, dependencies and where their limitations lie,” said Kofman, director of the Russia studies program at the Center for Naval Analyses.
The man’s name and details of his arrival in the U.S. were included in an unclassified daily roundup of items of interest from around the country and the world. It is highly unusual and possibly unprecedented for this particular report to include the full name and detailed information of an asylum seeker, let alone of someone offering up military secrets of a foreign adversary that hunts down and poisons, launches from windows or otherwise kills its defectors.
“The deal with a walk-in is his ID has to be verified and his story checked as well — that could take some time,” explained one U.S. intelligence official. The engineer is believed to be inside the U.S. and is still being questioned by U.S. officials. He is likely being questioned about the restart of the Blackjack production, and the revamped or upgraded versions believed to have been worked on during the time of the Russian engineer’s employment as “site manager.”
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