U.S. Said to Offer Russia Bomb-Detecting Tools for Sochi
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The U.S. has offered to provide Russia with high-technology equipment, including gear designed to detect homemade bombs, to help protect next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, according to two Pentagon officials.
Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the offer to his Russian counterpart, General Valery Gerasimov, at a meeting in Brussels yesterday, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter of national security.