Washington – Ten Russian intelligence officers have been arrested in the U.S., the Justice Dept. disclosed Monday.
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Eight of 10 were arrested were reportedly carrying out “deep-cover” assignments in on behalf of the Russian Federation, according to court documents.
But who were these men and women allegedly working for exactly?
The FBI believes that they were working for the SVR, a service of the Russian Intelligence. The Bureau alleged the SVR trained them in foreign languages and the use of codes and intelligence transmission before sending them to the U.S.
The purpose of their assignment was clear according to a decrypted message from Moscow Center: To search and develop ties in policymaking circles in the U.S. and send intelligence reports to Russia.
No, its no the plot of a John LeCarre novel, it’s real.
After the KGB disbanded in 1991, around the time of the dissolution of the USSR, the need for a new intelligence gathering agency was needed. The KGB’s intelligence arm, the First Chief Directorate, would eventually become the Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR.
The headquarters of the SVR are located in Moscow. Mikhail Fradkov, the current SVR Director reports directly to Russian president Demitri Medyedev.
Since the cause of communism can no longer be used as a draw to lure people into spying for Russia, the SVR must use different tactics: A love of Russia, a mistrust of the West and anti-terror motives.
Russian spies infiltrating the U.S. is not just the stuff of Cold War paranoia.
In February of 1994, Aldrich Ames was arrested for passing classified information to the Soviet Union and then to the Russians. In November 1996, Harold Nicholson, a top CIA officer, was arrested while trying to smuggle documents out of the country to Russia.
In February of 2001, Robert Hanssen, a long-time FBI agent, gave thousands of classified documents on nuclear war defenses to the Russians. He pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison.
wellcome cold war II!
the cold war is in full swing
Let’s see if they get deported or if they get life like they gave Pollard.
Just wait and see the Russians are going to arrest some Americans in retaliation saying they are spy’s for the US
Obama doesn’t like the Russians, because they are soviet communists and not Fascist communists such as himself.
I think if pollard would not be a jew, all comments would be in favored for him. please stop the sines yisrael sines cenom
Looks to me that if anyone is confused, it is those people who don’t realize that negative comments towards each other in this country such as are made above is what is helping the cause of espionage, and if you want to look like you are supporting another country, then they are succeeding, and if not, you are a willing tool whose negativity is degrading both this country and your own integrity. You have freedom of speech, and if you choose to use it wisely, you can make a difference, but if you use it for such purposes as to downgrade and berate others, your freedom of speech is, in reality, your freedom to be an ass. Far better to waste your time in other ways than to make yourself appear an ass here. Thus ends the effectiveness of the comments above.