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As early as the 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB intelligence agencies, used Russian and foreign-born nationals (resident spies), as well as Communists of American origin, to perform espionage activities in the United States, forming various spy rings.
Oct 14, 2020 · The spies were trained in Russia to assimilate into everyday American life by getting married, obtaining jobs and raising families, while also sending encoded messages back home, the FBI...
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Jan 31, 2019 · In the 1980s Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent, supplied the Soviets with significant numbers of classified American intelligence files – and it was not until after the Cold War finished that he was caught. But Ames was not influenced by ideology – it was something else. Scott Rose explains this Cold War spy scandal.
Mar 7, 2017 · In 2011, the FBI released dozens of images, video clips, and documents from “Operation Ghost Stories” that revealed new information about the Russian operatives who had been caught posing as...
U.S. counterintelligence agents have established that neither Howard nor Hanssen had access to the identities of all the American intelligence sources who were betrayed in 1985.
A laptop used by Russian spies seized in 2010 by the FBI. From the end of the 1980s, KGB and later SVR began to create "a second echelon" of "auxiliary agents in addition to our main weapons, illegals and special agents", according to former SVR officer Kouzminov. [17]
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These are just a few of the dozens of spies who the FBI identified and arrested during the 1980s, including 12 in 1984 alone.