Sex Tape used to smear american diplomat

On August 6, 2009 U.S. diplomat Kyle Hatcher was featured in a video apparently showing him with a prostitute, also published by Informacia.ru and reprinted by Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The married envoy, a second secretary, was named as Kyle Hatcher by two Russian newspapers which reported unconfirmed claims that he was a CIA undercover agent. The footage shows 35-year-old Mr Hatcher - described as a family man - apparently making calls from his mobile phone to three Russian women, discussing meeting him at a flat.

A man resembling Mr Hatcher is then shown in a bedroom apparently checking for a hidden camera but missing the spy lens that is filming him.

The man is then seen with a woman on a double bed in semi-darkness.

The sex sting mirrored an incident in which a British diplomat in Russia, James Hudson, quit the Foreign Office after being filmed in bed with two women.

In Hatcher’s case, the diplomat was not forced to leave: The U.S. ambassador stood up for his employee, while the FBI conducted an investigation and declared the footage fake. The State Department called the video a fabricated montage that included some real footage: “Mr. Hatcher has been the subject of a smear campaign in the Russian press and on the Internet to discredit him and his work,” said State Department spokesman Ian Kelly. “We deplore this type of smear campaign.”

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