Sheila Bryant, then inspector general of the U.S. Navy employee who she said had “a little crush” on her.īut at least one military figure found the captivating jewelry maker’s story questionable. Instead, the reporters say, she worked her way close to a number of NATO officers, including a U.S. Bellingcat reports the club had thought that by recruiting Maria Adela, they could lure a more lofty crowd. She became the secretary of the Lions Club Napoli Monte Nuovo, which was founded by a NATO officer. It was there that her jewelry boutique by day and nightclub by evening lured a number of up-and-coming Neapolitans who tended to mix with NATO diplomats. He died mysteriously-or at least his identity was issued a death certificate-at the age of 30 due to “double pneumonia and systemic lupus.” After his demise, she settled in Naples and marketed cheap made-in-China baubles as high-end jewelry to “the woman who is never excessive.” In 2012, the investigative reporters say, she married an Italian who was not really Italian at all, but rather Ecuadoran and Russian. The Russian passport number was within the same group issued to other fake identities, including the man suspected of poisoning Bulgarian arms producer Emilian Gebrev and a Russian intelligence agent involved in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, the investigators say. A woman with the same cover identity, including the exact name and date of birth, was given a Russian passport a year later, and set to work at Moscow State University to create a traceable history that was likely never checked by her new friends in Italy. Maria Adela’s journey from Russia to Naples starts in Peru in 2005, when she was denied a Peruvian passport after providing a 1978 baptism certificate from a church that was founded a decade later. The story of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera-or whoever she really is-was untangled in a joint investigation by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, The Insider and La Repubblica, which simultaneously published stories Friday. A Russian spy who posed as a jewelry maker and glitterati social climber among influencers in Naples, Italy, was able to wriggle her way into the inner circles of NATO commanders, according to a new investigative report.
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