Intel chief Dan Coats sees ‘risk’ Russia will carry out assassinations in US

Source: Washington Examiner | July 19, 2018 | Joel Gehrke

Russia may attempt to use chemical weapons to assassinate individuals in the U.S., the top American intelligence official said Thursday.

“It’s a risk,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said during the Aspen Security Forum. “The Russians do bold things and extraordinary things.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s team has denied British allegations that Russia used “a military-grade nerve agent” to attack a former Russian military intelligence officer who worked as a double-agent for the United Kingdom. The target, Sergei Skripal, survived the March incident, but a woman in a neighboring town died after an an apparent exposure to vestiges of the chemical weapon.

“The pushback that we had with the combination of our partners against Russia on this was very very important, sending the right signal,” Coats told NBC’s Andrew Mitchell, who conducted the Aspen interview. “But it should have told the world that if you think the Russians are trying to still be good neighbors, these are the kind of things they do.”

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