It all started with a grainy 15 second clip on Russia’s NTV channel, which showed footage of a policeman tackling a man the report said was an undercover CIA agent trying to enter the U.S. embassy in Moscow without identifying himself.
As shown in the video below, the man exits a taxi and was promptly tackled by a policeman who emerges from a guard box. In the ensuing struggle, the man manages to push himself through a door into the embassy compound, while the officer attempts to pin him down.