FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A former Army Green Beret living in northern Virginia was arrested Friday, charged with divulging military secrets about his unit's activities in former Soviet republics during more than a decade of contacts with Russian intelligence. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, told Russian intelligence he considered himself a “son of Russia,” according to an indictment made public after his arrest. NY REP. ELISE STEFANIK SAYS FEMALE GREEN BERET CANDIDATE POISED TO GRADUATE IN JULYDebbins, of Gainesville, allegedly met Russian intelligence beginning in 1996, when he was an ROTC student at the University of Minnesota, through 2011. As far back as 1997, he was even assigned a code name by Russian intelligence agents — Ikar Lesnikov — after signing a statement saying that he wanted to serve Russia, according to prosecutors. In one meeting with Russian intelligence, he accepted a bottle of Cognac and a Russian military uniform as payment, according to the indictment.

Source: Fox News August 22, 2020 01:18 UTC