Cody Shearer's FSB source was Ruslan Mansimov and the CIA's Russian intermediary in Germany was probably Viktor Bitner. nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/…
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/077675…
The reason I believe Viktor is the Volga German is because he started "Sausage Emperor Limited" with another Russian named Valery Reshetin.
More about Mansimov: archives.echo.az/?p=11885
Viktor Bitner appears to be confirmed as the Russian offering NSA cyberweapons to USIC who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence/Eastern European cybercriminals. Here he is selling portable sausage grills to Khimki's Dmitry Voloshin. docplayer.ru/40608892-Plosh…
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