Last year, the FBI drove what he said was a Russian sleeper spy network - ten deep cover agents accused Russian intelligence, some of which went Ivy League grad schools to high-level connections, others who had stolen the identities of dead people to continue to hide their true identity. The dramatic revelations of the ten year long-espionage against the case, called "Operation spy stories" by the FBI, led to an exchange of Hollywood-like Cold War spies on the tarmac at Vienna airport , Austria, after the accused - including the photogenic city of New York Russian real estate agent Anna Chapman - pleaded guilty to acting as illegal agents of Russia last June 2010.
Monday, the FBI, responding to a request for access to information, has published dozens of surveillance videos, photos and documents of the case. But if the hand was forced from office, the FBI counterspies still seemed quite happy to discuss their success in rolling up the Russian spy network.
"The arrest of 10 Russian spies last year has provided a chilling reminder that espionage on U.S. soil did not disappear when the Cold War is over," the FBI said Monday on its website announcing the release . "Our case against the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) operatives, known as Operation St. Stories lasted more than a decade."
"Our agents and analysts looked deep cover agents as they settled in the United States (some using stolen identities) and was leading a seemingly normal life, marry, buy homes, raise children and assimilate into American society, "he said.
"After years of collecting information and ensuring that we knew all the players who were, we stopped the illegal June 27, 2010," the FBI reminded the readers. "A few weeks later, they pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Russian Federation in the U.S."
Here are links to all the video surveillance of the case published by the FBI, documents and photographs.
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