Accused Russian agent Maria Butina speaks to camera at 2015 FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 11, 2015. — Reuters pic
She said she was on a quest to establish better relations between Russia and the United States, and enrolled in university in Washington while living with a Republican operative. Her current appeals lawyer, a Washington public defender, did not reply to questions about her plans, but said in a filing this week that she would return to Russia.But it remained unclear whether she was an intelligence operative positioned to infiltrate US political circles, or just someone genuinely creating people-to-people channels of cooperation who fell victim to a higher level of intrigue relating to Russian election interference.
Her group hosted NRA leaders in Russia and she and her influential Moscow sponsor, Alexander Torshin, attended NRA events and US political gatherings, where they met with influential Republicans. They said that although she was not an employee of any of Moscow's spy services, she knowingly took part in an operation to “spot and assess” potential US espionage targets.
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