A wild Olympics story is currently unfolding in Paris after a 40-year-old Russian national was arrested on charges of trying to “destabilize” the games. Now there’s breaking news that the man is actually a Russian intelligence officer, who posed as a chef, and got busted because he drunkenly told people about his mission.
The man at the center of all this is Kirill Griaznov, who was identified in a coordinated reporting effort by The Insider in Russia, France’s Le Monde, and Der Spiegel in Germany. The three outlets describe Griaznov as a Russian FSB agent (the equivalent of the FBI), who lived a double-life in Paris, and now faces
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