A European journalistic investigation into the Russian spy who managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the Atlantic Alliance for the first time in history.
The investigation lasted ten months. Journalists dealt with the past of Maria Adela Kufeld Rivera, thirty years old, a spy in the services of Russian President Putin, as the Italian newspaper La Repubblica writes. For the needs of the investigation, La Repubblica collaborated with the German magazine Der Spiegel, the research website Bellingcat and The Insider.
According to the revelations, in a relatively short period of time, Adela managed to infiltrate the NATO base in Naples and the US Sixth Fleet. The girl used a Russian passport to enter Italy, which belongs to Gru, Moscow’s military intelligence service. “A modern-day Mata Hari, who used various techniques to seduce her interlocutors,” writes La Repubblica. The name she declared was of course not her real one and according to what she had said, she was born in Peru to a German father.
The first Russian agent to infiltrate NATO
The journalistic investigation could not ascertain whether the spy eventually found valuable evidence and information, and whether she infected with viruses the mobile phones and computers of those she met, approaching them as a friend. He did, however, come into contact with key figures at the NATO base and the US Navy. No Russian agent in the past has been able to penetrate so deeply into the highest levels of command of the Atlantic Alliance,” the Italian press underlines.
At the same time, it must be established whether the whole story of Maria Adela is in some way connected with the arrest of a French officer, who worked at the base of the Atlantic Alliance in Naples and was arrested two years ago, on the charge of selling classified information and files to the Russian military intelligence Gru.
According to the Italian newspaper, this Russian spy used three different Russian passports. She left Italy quite suddenly in 2018. From Naples she boarded a flight bound for Moscow, and since then she has been completely lost.
Theodoros Andreadis Syngellakis, Rome
Source: Deutsche Welle
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