Source thinks embarrassed Putin faked the CIA spy arrest (poorly)

The Tuesday Russian arrest and deportation of a career U.S. diplomat accused of being a CIA officer was a “staged … political, domestic display” by the government of Prime Minister Putin, an unnamed source high in U.S. intelligence and familiar with intelligence operating procedures told The Daily Caller.

The source, who asked to remain nameless because the person is not authorized to speak on the record, said the Kremlin is “sending a message,” likely motivated by anger and embarrassment over Chechen-linked terrorism in Boston.

“The whole thing,” TheDC’s source said, “screams of stupid.”

The FSB, Russia’s security services and the KGB’s successor, detained Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, overnight, touting him on camera before handing him over to the United States for deportation. He was accused of trying to recruit Russians for the…