A senior U.S. Army soldier stationed in the United Kingdom was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Russia, British police said. CBS News' Eleanor Watson has more.
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NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters needed British police to catch its own Russian spy
As it ran on the front
Today we are making an espionage case, which is not a dish you can get over here in quite this cut, not because you lack the arrests but because yours do not usually begin inside a NATO headquarters. A senior officer of the United States Army, stationed not at home but at a base in Britain, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Russia. The British police made the arrest; the Americans are named only as support.
The base itself has a name: Imjin Barracks, home to the headquarters of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, the formation built to move fastest when Europe needs it moved. Turn that name over and look underneath, the way you would a chicken: the reacting, this time, was done by London police, with support from the American military and law enforcement, not by the Corps itself.…
Clive Support. I notice nobody mentions who has been supporting this house's culture single-handed, in verse, since September.
Gary Culture. The boiler's been louder than your verse, and at least I know which pipe to hit to stop it.
France 24, which is what they have here, has it as: "UK authorities arrest US soldier suspected of spying for Russia." At home, the same Tuesday printed as: "U.S. Army officer arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, authorities say."
Keith Unnamed. There's an angle in that — I could sell unnamed authorities as a brand by Thursday, better than either of yours.
You will be looking for the charge. There is none printed yet: the FBI director, Kash Patel, called it only "allegations of espionage," which is the word a case wears before anyone proves it in a court. No trial date appears in anything printed about it, and the investigation continues.
Rob Proven. Nothing in this house gets proven, it just gets left, like the damp, and everyone agrees not to say whose room it started in.
A word like allegations keeps well; it does not need refrigeration, and it can sit on a shelf for months before anyone decides whether to cook with it at all.
It serves the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps a reminder of who was already inside its own gates. No charge has been filed and no court date has been set, only the word allegations, doing the work for now, the way a label does before anyone has weighed what is inside.
Rob No charge yet. That's the whole house's filing system — we've been under investigation by the landlord since the boiler went, and nobody's been arrested for that either.
“This is NATO's quick reaction force, stationed in Britain to move fast, and it took outside cops to find the spy wearing its own uniform. Nobody's asking how a senior officer gets that close to the alliance's own command post without anyone upstairs noticing, and that's the part nobody's selling you. Allegations today, and the people whose base this is still don't get told how deep it goes.”
“This is the alliance working exactly as designed — British police, American support, total cooperation, nothing to see. Patel called it only "allegations of espionage," which means nobody's proven anything, which is actually reassuring if you — wait, did I just call unproven Russian espionage at a NATO command post reassuring? That doesn't sound like me.”
The receipts
A U.S. official told CBS News the suspect is a senior officer based at Imjin Barracks, home to the headquarters for NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.
A senior U.S. army soldier based in the United Kingdom has been arrested over "allegations of espionage," FBI director Kash Patel said. Charlie D'Agata has more.
A member of the US army suspected of spying for Russia was arrested in Britain on Tuesday, London police said, following an investigation with support from the American military and law enforcement.
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