Posted on 06/28/2010 3:25:59 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Ten people have been arrested in the United States for allegedly spying for the Russian government.
The US Department of Justice said they were held for allegedly carrying out "long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments" on US soil.
They have been charged with conspiracy to act as unlawful agents of a foreign government, a crime which carries up to five years in prison.
An 11th suspect remains at large, according to justice officials.
Money laundering
The BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington says it is a story of Cold War-era espionage with the tools and technology of the 21st Century.
The alleged agents were trained by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and sent to the US to infiltrate policy-making circles and collect information, according to court papers filed in US District Court for the southern district of New York.
Some of them had been living in the country under false identities since the early 1990s, using codes and and engaging in advanced computer operations, including posting apparently innocent pictures on the internet which contained detailed texts, investigators say.
The FBI also reported observing older techniques, such as money being buried next to a beer-bottle marker and "brush pasts" in parks.
"You were sent to USA for long-term service trip," says one purported message to two of the suspects that was intercepted by US intelligence. "Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc - all these serve one goal: fulfil your main mission, ie to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and send intels."
They allegedly got close to a scientist involved in designing bunker-busting bombs and a top former intelligence official.
Five of the suspects will appear later in a Manhattan
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Color me stunned!
“Just saw a report on the local Boston newscast.Two were arrested in their home on a very swanky street right down the street from Harvard Square.”
Well, if you can’t find communists in Cambridge Mass. where are you going to find them?
With 0 in the WH, they do not need the deep cobver agents any more.
Now, now. Let's not mock the Big May Day Parade in Harvard Square! it's a tourist attraction!
What are brush pasts?
Chicago? Martha's Vineyard?
The big O has the swankiest cover of all.
You've obviously never been to San Francisco.
What for, I live in Austin but still doesn’t answer my Q
Right after 0 was elected, a couple was arrested in DC accused of being Russian spies.. What is going on?
The kids here won't remember that.
/johnny
Here is a picture of one of them that infiltrated the upper echelon of the White house.
Hey, look over here, do not look at the man behind the curtain.........
I believe that a ‘brush past’ is where two people ‘brush past’ each other while exchanging briefcases.
Yup.I can't imagine a single RAT in the House *or* Senate that wouldn't say "this doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense" or "hey,it's only espionage".
Sorry..I was just being a wisea$$.My guess is that TruthConquers is probably correct.
Brush past is a hand to hand handoff. Two agents brushing into each other and making an exchange.
Very rare. Most exchanges are dead drops so as to keep “cells” separate and safe.
BBC ran a really good spycraft reality show a few years back - worth seeking out if you have interest in the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_%28TV_series%29
Well at least they waited to make arrests until until after obama and Russian president were done yucking it up over burgers in DC!!
Impossible! We pressed the Reset button!
(sarcasm)
“An 11th suspect remains at large, according to justice officials.”
Look on the golf course.
Listen for Joe Biden ranting and raving at a caddy or just about any one else.
The black , skinny guy next to him.
He is the 11th.
"......met a former high-ranking US government official to discuss "research programmes on small yield high penetration nuclear devices." UKTelegraph
Wonder who the official was..how they even got to him..
I love this stuff!!!
The Sopranos, in that later shows, showed an influx of Russians with mob experience moving in.
This timing (?)also continues to make Obama look like a real Putz after embracing "his Russian counterpart" Dimitry Medvedev & calling him a "solid and reliable partner" while taking him out for a burger!!!! Meanwhile alienating our allies-France, England, Israel...Poland - especially upset over Obama desire to win favors with Moscow by canceling the US missile shield system and lack of appreciation of their military contributions, while also suffering casualties, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gotta love the Burger joint red shirt/lettering in the background.
This bust only scraped the tip of the iceberg as far as this problem is concerned. There are likely tens of thousands of Russian and other agents in this country right now.
Just names out of the hat..
2008, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency director Lieutenant General Henry Obering; Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Defense Department Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright; Patrick O'Reilly,(present day) chief of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency...
???
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/Dangerous Missile Battle In Space Over Europe: Fifth Act In U.S. Missile Shield Drama.
Years ago I believe his website had a chatboard, but I have no idea if it still exists.
The Czech Republic’s Military Intelligence Service said in its annual report on Tuesday that Russian agents have reduced their activities in the country since US President Barack Obama abandoned Bush-era plans for missile defense systems in Eastern Europe.-June 4, 2010
One report, VZ was able to establish that the two Russian embassy officials “tried to develop close ties with people from the Czech Defense Ministry and [had] shown a particular interest in the planned construction of a US radar base on Czech soil...temporarily shelved ..Source 08/19/2009
The Russians do to. The Russians are said to have penetrated deep into the Pentagon, defense contractors, and other sensitive areas, including the civilian government and even Congressmen.
The Russians and Chinese both know what they are doing, and even cooperate on some levels in this espionage.
My dad was an engineer for a missile co. back in the Cold War of the 60s. He worked in the underground missile silos. He said that Russians would come to the bases pretending to be agricultural workers. He laughed about how they were so obvious.
An observation...somewhere around 1995...while still in the Air Force...I began to notice AF guys coming up who were married to Russian wives. At Ramstein, by 2000, I’d make a guess that a minimum of forty guys were married to Russian women. I could stand in the commissary...and from fifty feet away...note most of these Russian wives (all around 6 ft tall and dressed in some provocative fashion). I would make a guess throughout the Army and Air Force today...there are at least 1,000 guys married to Russian women.
The odds of forty of them being sleepers? I’d guess better than fifty-fifty chance.
He said brush pasts not butt pats...
UNSCOM inspector-turned anti- Iraq war zealot Scott Ritter dumped his original wife for a Russian gal, IIRC. He met here while in the former USSR doing inspections on some base, she was a translator or some such thing.
When oh when is the US going to wise up?
Illegals, terrorists, spies ...
and the US wants to open the doors wide for them all
stupid is as stupid does
Wow - ten Ted Kennedy wannabes!
We used to call them "union stewards". ;-)
I’d like to know how many were actually Russians and how many were Russian nationals and how many were Americans.
I saw that the 11th man arrested in Cyprus was a Canadian and that one attractive young woman with a last name of Chapman was a Russian Nat’l.
Detroit, Wash. D.C., Seattle, Berkley.........
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