The FBI suspected a Russian Orthodox officer of recruiting agents for the Russian special services in the United States During a search in 2021, he was found in possession of a document describing cooperation between the church and intelligence

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected Dmitry Petrovsky, an employee of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate, of working for Russian intelligence. This was reported by sources of intelligence researchers, authors of the Agentura.ru website Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov.