Russian spy worked at Microsoft
ONE OF THE RUSSIAN SPIES recently uncovered in the farcical cold war throwback was for a time a Microsoft employee.
According to the Washington Post, Alexey Karetnikov was working at the Microsoft campus outside Seattle, Washington. He is the 12th person to have his collar felt on allegations of spying but the US authorities could only charge him with immigration violations. As a result, he was merely deported back to Russia.
A Microsoft spokesman, Lou Gellos, confirmed Karetnikov had a job as a software tester at the company for nine months.
"He was just in the early stages; [he] had just set up shop," a US federal officer told the Post. The alleged Russian sleeper agents, who apparently only gathered data they could've found down the back of the Internet, are now being debriefed by Russian intelligence in Moscow.