Reporter pushes back against ‘ridiculous’ Russian spy allegations
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David Pugliese defended himself from 'ridiculous' allegations leveled at Canada's public safety committee.
A veteran Canadian journalist defended himself on Friday from a former Conservative cabinet minister’s allegations that he was a Russian agent.
David Pugliese responded to what he called the “false claims” after Chris Alexander testified about him at the Public Safety and National Security Committee.
“I was never approached by anybody, Russians, Chinese, you name it. And, no, I’m not a Russian spy,” the Ottawa Citizen reporter told Global News in an interview.
“No, I’m not a Russian James Bond.”
Appearing at a hearing on Russian disinformation on Thursday, Alexander said Moscow had been recruiting Westerners, and cited Pugliese as an example.
The former immigration minister accused the reporter of “long-running covert ties to Moscow” and tabled documents he said chronicled the KGB’s recruitment of him.
“In a nutshell, these records document a KGB operation to talent spot, recruit, develop and run as an agent a Canadian citizen who’s been a prominent journalist in this country for over three decades,” he said.
He later named the journalist as Pugliese, whom he said had reported on themes that “aim to weaken Canadian support for Ukraine.”
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