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Oct 14, 2020 · In 2000, FBI agents in New York were leading an unprecedented investigation into a network of Russian intelligence agents living in the United States carrying out long-term, deep-cover...
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- The Spies Next Door
- Money Swaps and Dead Drops
- The Shifting Landscape
- False Flags
Todd Shelton | FBI Special Agent: When we first realized that we may have … Russian intelligence officers … operating in the United States … that became a critical threat that we needed to address. Todd Shelton: We look to use every tool in the FBI investigative toolbox. Wiretaps, electronic monitoring, intercepts of electronic communication … to l...
Alan Kohler | FBI Supervisory Special Agent: In 2004 … the spies … became more aggressive. … The Russians … wanted them to be more productive. They wanted them to target people with more value. That's when the FBI's pursuit of this Russian spy network suddenly took an alarming turn. Maria Ricci: Donald Heathfield … in Boston … was getting close to ...
Alan Kohler: We were racing against the unknown. We didn't know when or if the Russians were going to make a decision to pull the intelligence officers back, but we had to plan accordingly. In early 2006, just as the FBI was closing in on the American spy ring, the surprise discovery of a Russian operative by Canadian intelligence threatened to shu...
Alan Kohler: In counterintelligence, nothing happens by accident. … Everything has to happen for a reason. By 2009, the FBI had been watching the Russian spy network for nearly a decade. The Bureau worried about potential access to nuclear secrets, government officials and efforts to recruit new spies. Now the FBI's concern grew with the arrival of...
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Jul 19, 2017 · The FBI and CIA first learned about the collection of deep-cover SVR spies in the United States in the early 2000s. They were living as so-called “illegals,” meaning they had no diplomatic ...
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Oct 31, 2011 · Our agents and analysts watched the deep-cover operatives as they established themselves in the U.S. (some by using stolen identities) and went about leading seemingly normal lives—getting married,...
In 2000, the FBI learned of multiple sets of Russian spies in the U.S. [18] In 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian agents, whose deep cover operation was named the Illegals Program by the Department of Justice. Posing as ordinary American citizens, the Russian agents tried to build contacts with academics, industrialists, and policymakers to gain ...
Jun 5, 2018 · Last week, it was finally time to bid goodbye to The Americans, the US television show that followed two Russian spies posing as an everyday American couple who, leaving their two...
Feb 23, 2017 · The FBI watched him for more than three years, even buying the house next door to his as they tried to figure out whether he really was a KGB agent and, if so, whether he was still active....
