FBI breaks up alleged Russian spy ring in deep cover

**Prince** · 06-28-2010, 06:50 PM

FBI breaks up alleged Russian spy ring in deep cover
Arrests of ten accused agents living in suburban homes made after Barack Obama praised Medvedev as solid

The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long-term, deep cover" network of agents across America's east coast sent to infiltrate policy making circles.

The cracking of the alleged spy ring, the largest discovered in the US since the collapse of communism, came days after Barack Obama praised Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, at the White House as a "solid and reliable partner".

In a charge sheet that might have been taken from a cold war thriller, the FBI alleges that the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, had sent the 10 spies, and possibly many more, to live in the US many years ago under false names, with the intent of becoming so Americanised they could gather information without raising suspicion. Some of the agents lived as married couples.

The FBI said that it intercepted SVR messages, sent by "Moscow centre", to two of the accused spies.

"You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, your 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 (intelligence reports) to C (Centre)," the intercepted message said, according to the indictment. The FBI does not give any indication as to how successful the alleged agents were.

The arrests were made at Arlington in Virginia, near the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, and in New York, Boston and New Jersey. The justice department said one other alleged spy was being sought.

All the 10 have been charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. They face up to five years in prison if convicted, although it is possible that more serious charges will be added.

The alleged spies are also accused of money laundering, which carries lengthy prison sentences.

The justice department said the arrests were the result of an FBI investigation over many years. According to testimony of an FBI special agent, Amit Kachhia-Patel, in the indictments of two of the accused: "The FBI has conducted a multi-year investigation of a network of United States-based agents of the foreign intelligence organ of the Russian Federation (the "SVR").

The targets of the FBI's investigation include covert SVR agents who assume false identities, and who are living in the US on long-term, "deep cover" assignments. Those arrested include agents who went by the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy, and Patricia Mills.

"These Russian secret agents work to hide all connections between themselves and Russia, even as they act at the direction and under the control of the SVR," the indictment said.

"These secret agents are typically called 'illegals'... The FBI's investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the United States in the service of one primary, long-term goal: to become sufficiently "Americanised" such that they can gather information about the US for Russia, and can successfully recruit sources who are in, or are able to, infiltrate United States policy-making circles."

The indictment said the alleged spies used a number of methods to communicate with the SVR, including unique wireless networks to transfer encrypted data. One wireless network was allegedly run from a van in New York that on one occasion parked outside a coffee shop where one of the accused, named as Anna Chapman, was sitting. The FBI says it observed as she established a connection with the wireless link in the van and transmitted data. A few weeks later she did the same from a bookshop.

The FBI said it also observed a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian government park outside a Washington DC restaurant where another alleged spy, going by the name Mikhail Semenko, who is still being sought by the authorities, used a computer to establish a connection with a wireless signal from the car. Other information was passed by posting pictures on the internet with text buried in them, as well as traditional means such as drops and "brush pasts" in parks.

Kachhia-Patel described how the FBI set up a sting for Chapman on Saturday by using an agent to pose as a Russian consulate official in New York who needed to pass on a vital package. During the meeting, the FBI said, Chapman discussed the covert laptop communications because she was having technical difficulties. The FBI put Chapman through a charade in which she was asked to deliver a false passport to a supposed agent. Chapman was to signal to the person by holding a magazine in a particular way and staging a seemingly innocuous exchange of greetings.The US authorities also arranged for Semenko to make a drop of $5,000 that he believed was intended for a Russian agent.

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**ROID** · 06-28-2010, 06:54 PM

I wonder how a person ends up in this type of profession.

I just wanna send my resume to the CIA and say I wanna be a spy.

**maniclion** · 06-28-2010, 07:20 PM

I knew Max Mirkin was a sleeper cell agent.....

And as if we don't have anyone over there....

**maniclion** · 06-28-2010, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by ROID

I wonder how a person ends up in this type of profession.

I just wanna send my resume to the CIA and say I wanna be a spy.

Be ready to be tested right away, they send recruiters to watch you, you have to notice them following you and make contact without them seeing you approach....keep your eyes open, anyone suspicious try to lose them and then circle behind them, sneak up and grab them in a choke hold and tell them you are ready for duty....

**ROID** · 06-29-2010, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by maniclion

Be ready to be tested right away, they send recruiters to watch you, you have to notice them following you and make contact without them seeing you approach....keep your eyes open, anyone suspicious try to lose them and then circle behind them, sneak up and grab them in a choke hold and tell them you are ready for duty....

Hmm....I have had the feeling i've been being watched.

I need guns.

**CORUM** · 06-29-2010, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by maniclion

Be ready to be tested right away, they send recruiters to watch you, you have to notice them following you and make contact without them seeing you approach....keep your eyes open, anyone suspicious try to lose them and then circle behind them, sneak up and grab them in a choke hold and tell them you are ready for duty....

now he is going to get all juiced up and go around choking out folks just for the hell of it!!! wait a minute................ sign me the F up!!!!

**Little Wing** · 06-29-2010, 12:26 PM

Top 10 Places You Can't Go

interesting list.

#1

RAF Menwith Hill is a British military base with connections to the global ECHELON spy network. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. ECHELON was reportedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s, but since the end of the Cold War it is believed to search also for hints of terrorist plots, drug dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence. It has also been involved in reports of commercial espionage and is believed to filter all telephone and radio communications in the nations which host it – an extreme violation of privacy.

**bandaidwoman** · 06-30-2010, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by ROID

I wonder how a person ends up in this type of profession.

I just wanna send my resume to the CIA and say I wanna be a spy.

From my family's experience the CIA finds you, rather than the other way around.

**maniclion** · 06-30-2010, 03:27 PM

Knowing a foreign language like Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, British, Russian, Turkish. I had a recruiter contact me after the Navy since I had a TS but they wanted me to be a computer tech and I would have had to move, plus I wouldn't have passed their no drug for 12 months thing nor the alcohol abuse requirement...not to mention I'd had enough working for the government and strict rules.

**CORUM** · 06-30-2010, 03:34 PM

i think it is the FBI that you couldn't even have done steroids in the last ten years.... CIA is difficult to get inot, but like said earlier they usually come for you. and if you want to be a CIA badass, u generally had to be a military badass DEVGRU, DELTA, ETC.

plus most of the CIA badass missions are carried out by the military anyway. they do have a special division made up of prior military badasses

**ROID** · 06-30-2010, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by maniclion

Knowing a foreign language like Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, British, Russian, Turkish. I had a recruiter contact me after the Navy since I had a TS but they wanted me to be a computer tech and I would have had to move, plus I wouldn't have passed their no drug for 12 months thing nor the alcohol abuse requirement...not to mention I'd had enough working for the government and strict rules.

Sara's first language is arabic. She applied for them online and they called her once. That is where i get this idea.

I think with my degree and when I learn arabic, which i will just because I wanna know what her parents and sisters say when i'm there I would have a pretty good chance of serving that branch of the government in some capacity. I'm sure I wouldnt be a spy though.

My real dream is to finish my education, learn arabic and move to Dubai. Not sure if its true but couple of people have told me with my degree and being able to speak Arabic it would be feasible to land a very high paying job in that part of the world.

2nd dream. She and I just work for some contractor int he middle east until we are able to pay for a nice beach house and fund retirement plans. she lived in iraq for the first 10 years of her life, I dont think it would be a stretch for her to accomplish that. Not sure about myself, i might just end up with a sugar momma .

**ROID** · 06-30-2010, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by CORUM

i think it is the FBI that you couldn't even have done steroids in the last ten years.... CIA is difficult to get inot, but like said earlier they usually come for you. and if you want to be a CIA badass, u generally had to be a military badass DEVGRU, DELTA, ETC.

plus most of the CIA badass missions are carried out by the military anyway. they do have a special division made up of prior military badasses

I think the 10 year thing has been revised to 12 months.

I could do without drugs or alcohol for 12 months without a problem.

**TheGreatSatan** · 06-30-2010, 03:52 PM

I think they will soon be saying how great Obama is for saving the country from spies

**maniclion** · 06-30-2010, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by CORUM

i think it is the FBI that you couldn't even have done steroids in the last ten years.... CIA is difficult to get inot, but like said earlier they usually come for you. and if you want to be a CIA badass, u generally had to be a military badass DEVGRU, DELTA, ETC.

plus most of the CIA badass missions are carried out by the military anyway. they do have a special division made up of prior military badasses

He wasn't after me to be a spy the CIA like any other organization needs administrative staff and people to take care of their data systems, then they have the analysts and what not and finally field agents and operatives....

**maniclion** · 06-30-2010, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by ROID

Sara's first language is arabic. She applied for them online and they called her once. That is where i get this idea.

I think with my degree and when I learn arabic, which i will just because I wanna know what her parents and sisters say when i'm there I would have a pretty good chance of serving that branch of the government in some capacity. I'm sure I wouldnt be a spy though.

My real dream is to finish my education, learn arabic and move to Dubai. Not sure if its true but couple of people have told me with my degree and being able to speak Arabic it would be feasible to land a very high paying job in that part of the world.

2nd dream. She and I just work for some contractor int he middle east until we are able to pay for a nice beach house and fund retirement plans. she lived in iraq for the first 10 years of her life, I dont think it would be a stretch for her to accomplish that. Not sure about myself, i might just end up with a sugar momma .

I have been ruminating on learning Arabic...I have a feeling Solar power is going to become very popular out in that part of the world and I could have a chance at getting a large chunk of change stashed away so I could quit work for a while and just write.....

The only part about living in the M.East is it's fucking boring if you like to party....

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 06-30-2010, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

Those look like boobies, I want to live in the giant boobies!

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