The governor of Russia's Tula region accused Christian missionaries of spying for the United States, according to an August 28, 2007 article in the local newspaper "Novotulsky Metallurg." Governor Vyacheslav Dudka made this accusation at a conference on inter-ethnic and inter-religious relations in the region. He singled out Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses as part of a religious expansion into Russia, stimulated by "foreign intelligence agencies." "An agent of the USA's military intelligence is on the staff of one of these religious groups," the governor charged, without specifying which group he was talking about. There was no mention in the article about how the governor or other officials participating in the conference propose to deal with this issue.

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