ACIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is accused by Russian defector Oleg Vassilyevich Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) of being KA-12, a Russian sleeper spy who has been trained to assassinate the President of Russia while in New York attending the funeral of the American Vice President. Fearing for the life of her arachnologist husband Michael Krause (August Diehl), Salt asks her boss, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), the only one who believes in her innocence, to protect him. When Mike can't be located, Salt goes on the run looking for him, while trying to prove her innocence. Unfortunately, her actions say otherwise, and the question is asked: Just who is Salt...CIA agent, Russian spy, or is she being set up?
AOrlov claims to be FSB, which stands for Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the main domestic security agency of the Russian Federation, signed into law by then-President Boris Yeltsin in 1995. Its main responsibilities are counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance.
QWhy would a Russian agent want to kill the Russian president?
ABecause the spymaster, among others, want to destroy America. They do not like the path that Russia has taken since lifting the Iron Curtain in 1991. They want Russia to regain the strength it held during the Cold War, and the first step to accomplishing that is to get rid of the current president of Russia, who calls the deceased American vice president 'his greatest friend in the West.'
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