{"id":5602,"date":"2022-08-28T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2022-08-28T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:40:06","slug":"jewelry-designer-unmasked-as-russian-spy-luring-nato-chiefs-into-honeytraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/08\/28\/news\/5602\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewelry designer unmasked as Russian spy luring NATO chiefs into honeytraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5603\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/honeytrap-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, who&#8217;s real name is Olga Kolobova, was a Russian spy posed as a jewelry designer frolicking with NATO officers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : A beautiful jewelry designer who criss-crossed Europe for 10 years was actually a Russian spy who infiltrated NATO by charming and seducing commanders.<br \/>\nShe was known as Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera but her real name was Olga Kolobova, and she was a spy working on behalf of Russia\u2019s GRU foreign intelligence service, according to the investigative site Bellingcat, which used photo-matching software to out her. Rivera took up residence in Rome, Malta and Paris before making Naples, Italy, her home base. She owned a jewelry boutique and talked her way into the city\u2019s international party scene, including soirees and balls attended by NATO officers, the outlet reported. She spoke fluent English and Italian and one unidentified officer told Bellingcat the two had a brief romance. A US Navy officer said he had a \u201clittle crush\u201d on her. She told European friends that she had been abandoned in Russia by her Peruvian mother and raised by an abusive family. In 2012, Maria Adela, who was actually the daughter of a colonel in the Russian military, married a purportedly Italian man. But he was in reality Ecuadoran and Russian, and he died mysteriously at the age of 30 due to \u201cdouble pneumonia and systemic lupus\u201d. After his death, she settled down in Naples and began befriending NATO diplomats. Marcelle D\u2019Argy Smith, the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was one of her unwitting friends. \u201cShe was like a goddaughter or a niece. It was upsetting to find out,\u201d Smith said. \u201cShe was very beautiful, very understated. She had lots of male friends, but they never seemed worthy. She was so attractive and the men looked ordinary and I never understood it.\u201d Colonel Sheila Bryant, then inspector general of the US Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, was suspicious of Maria Adela\u2019s story, Bellingcat said. She told colleagues to \u201climit access\u201d to highly confidential military information around her.<br \/>\nSuddenly, in 2018, Maria Adela left for Moscow \u2014 and her friends in Europe haven\u2019t seen her since. Bellingcat theorized she had her cover blown in some way by outside intelligence services. 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