Rebekah Koffler, is a Strategic Military Intelligence Analyst, freelance writer, and the author of “Putin’s Playbook.” She served as a senior official in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and worked with the CIA’s National Clandestine Service and George Beebe, former director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, former Russia advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, and currently Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute, says, this arrest, the  first since the Soviet era, is yet another hostile step in the deepening deterioration of US-Russian relations