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Russians Say Times Report Is Untrue
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
January 22, 2003
OSCOW, Jan. 21 — Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service today dismissed as false a report in The New York Times on Monday stating that the service had joined forces with the Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1990's to monitor North Korea's nuclear program.
The agency's spokesman, Boris Labusov, said in a telephone interview that the agency denied the details of the article, which he said had alleged that "some deal was struck between the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia and the C.I.A. of the United States against the interests of the Korean People's Democratic Republic." In a separate interview with the Interfax News Agency, Mr. Labusov called the report "inconsistent with reality."
The Times report, citing American intelligence officials, stated that Russian intelligence officials agreed in the early 1990's to install sophisticated American equipment in the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, to detect telltale signs of any North Korean program to reprocess nuclear fuel into plutonium.
The report said that American experts trained Russians to operate the equipment and that the data generated were turned over to the C.I.A.
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