Here is more from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
A Russian national, Nomma Zarubina, has been arrested on possible charges of providing false information to U.S. law enforcement and maintaining connections with Russian intelligence services, linking her to another suspected spy who fled the United States while being pursued by authorities.
According to FBI allegations presented in a New York Southern District Court hearing in late November, Zarubina was recruited by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2020 and operated under the codename "Alyssa."
She allegedly worked to build a network of contacts among journalists and experts while carrying out tasks for an FSB officer from her native city of Tomsk in Siberia.
Zarubina visited many US think tanks, and she was an "International Fellow" at the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the fall of 2022.
People pay to join this 5-day program, with the current tuition at $5,000.
Since 2003, CSIS has had more than 400 AILA International Fellows from 62 countries.
One person on X said that the story of Zarubina is "straight out of Showtime's Homeland Season 7 when the Russians planted a female FSB agent inside an NGO who seduces the President's chief of staff and recruits a former FBI agent in an active measures plot to weaken and remove the American President."
