Kolobova’s cover story—or "legend"—was as colorful as it was tragic. She claimed to be the daughter of a German father and a Peruvian mother, born in Peru but abandoned in Moscow by her mother during the 1980 Olympic Games.
By 2013, she had settled in Naples, Italy—home to NATO’s . Using her persona as a sophisticated jewelry designer, she opened a boutique called Serein , which sold what investigators later discovered were cheap items sourced from Chinese wholesalers. Infiltrating the Inner Circle "Maria Adela" became a fixture of the Naples social scene: 2022---Olga-Kolobova--a-Russian-spy-very-close-to-NATO
In August 2022, a joint investigation by Bellingcat , Der Spiegel , The Insider , and La Repubblica revealed one of the most audacious Russian intelligence operations in recent history. For nearly a decade, a woman known to Naples high society as Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera successfully infiltrated NATO circles, only to be unmasked as Olga Kolobova , a deep-cover operative for Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU . The Legend of "Maria Adela" Using her persona as a sophisticated jewelry designer,