How Russia trains and deploys spies in the United States and how effective they are

June marks the 11th anniversary of the largest spy scandal in the history of Russia and the United States. As a result of the betrayal of the former colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, Alexander Poteyev, the FBI uncovered a network of deeply conspiratorial illegal spies. Many of them have lived under strangers for decades ...

'Ghost stories': what was the largest exposure of the Russian spy network in the United States

The American television channel CBS showed a documentary, revealing the details of the operation of the US counterintelligence service to capture a network of Russian spies in 2010. This scandal is considered one of the most high-profile in modern intelligence history. BBC tells what new details became known from the interview ...

"There will be no revolution in America": a former Russian illegal spy predicted the future of the United States

The coronavirus pandemic, mass protests in the United States over the assassination of George Floyd, the intrigue lingering on the eve of the American elections ... It seems that a series of completely unpredictable events is taking place in the world that can change the course of history. However, associate professor of the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems of MGIMO, member of ...

ForumDaily Exclusive: US intelligence agent exposed in the USA on preparations for illegal intelligence, espionage tricks and the difficulties of double life

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the largest spy scandal in the history of Russia and the United States. As a result of the betrayal of the former colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, Alexander Poteyev, the FBI uncovered a network of deeply conspiratorial intelligence officers. Many of them have lived under ...

Russian businessman accused of espionage in the United States: what he did and what it threatens

US authorities accuse the director of business development of the United Engine Corporation, Alexander Korshunov (part of Rostec), of industrial espionage: according to the FBI, he recruited three employees of General Electric and with their help tried to steal an aircraft engine control system. Yesterday it became known...

The head of a large American company resigned due to an affair with Maria Butina

The founder of billion-dollar US online retailer Overstock, Patrick Byrne, claims the FBI encouraged his romantic relationship with Maria Butina - and used him as part of a "soft coup" against Donald Trump. As a result of this peculiar turn of events, the conviction of Maria Butina...

NPR: Butina and her mentor urged the United States that Russia did not knock down MN17 over Donbas

New documents obtained by the American news agency NPR shed light on the 2015 Washington influence campaign by Maria Butina and her mentor Alexander Torshin, who was then a senior in the Russian central bank. The other day Butina gave ...

Maria Butina spoke about the conditions in the US prison

The Russian woman, according to her, was kept in isolation for a long time and even food was brought to the cell. This, Butina said, seemed "very unpleasant" to her. It was difficult psychologically to endure, she noted. Convicted in the United States for working as a foreign agent without a license, a Russian woman ...

After poisoning a Russian intelligence officer in Britain, several more people were hospitalized.

In the British city of Salisbury, where a Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal was poisoned by an unknown substance, several emergency workers who worked at the scene were also hospitalized. According to Sky News sources, injured workers complained of a burning sensation in the mucous membranes of their eyes, as well as difficulty ...

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