Russian Security Service Interrogation Transcript

Russia's FSB. Do you understand why you've been detained?

Not yet.

Get in the car.

I was an employee

of security—

of the security service at the British Embassy in Moscow.

I was directly responsible for security at the residence

of the British ambassador to Moscow. In January of this year,

I contacted Dmitry Karpenko, who is a blogger and

journalist

from Ukraine. He's pro— he's a pro-Ukrainian blogger.

So.

I told him that I work at the British Embassy

in Moscow.

This informa-information greatly interested him, specifically

information about ambassadors, their deputies, and other

diplomats, embassy and residence staff

of the United Kingdom, their personal details, addresses,

first and last names.

What cars they drive, where they go, what restaurants

they visit,

what cities they travel to. Their arrival times and

departures of all employees

and diplomats.

He was also very, very interested in information about

the security service. How the security service provides

security for the embassy and the residence

of Britain in Moscow.

That is, the access control system.

All events held on the grounds

of the residence.

How many security guards there were, how many security personnel.

In general, all information on the security of the residence

of Britain

and the British Embassy in Moscow.

So, when I asked him why he needed all this,

he replied that the Ukrainian authorities were very

interested in this information in order to carry out

sabotage against the British ambassador in

Moscow and the embassy, and— as well as the British residence in

Moscow.