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[1보]미국내 암약 러시아 첩보원 10명 스파이혐의로 전격 체포- FBI

미국 1957년이후 최대규모 러시아스파이사건적발 - 기소장 직접 보기 http://andocu.tistory.com/2262

미국내에서 암약하던 러시아 첩보원 10명이 스파이 혐의로 미국 FBI에 전격체포됐습니다

FBI는 조금전 연방법원에 제출한 기소장에서 러시아 첩보기관인 SVR의 비밀지령을 분석, 미국내에서 암약하던 러시아 첩보원 10명을 체포했다고 밝혔습니다

이중 8명은 어젯밤 전격 체포됐으며 미국 행정부의 정책결정과정등을 집중적으로 염탐한 혐의를 받고 있습니다
또 핵무기, 군수물자통제, 백악관관련 루머, CIA 핵심지도부 동향, 오바마가 대통령으로 당선된 2년전 선거등도 집중 조사한 것으로 알려졌습니다

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The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.

According to court papers unsealed Monday, the FBI intercepted a message from SVR headquarters, Moscow Center, to two of the defendants describing their main mission as "to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US." Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a broad swath of topics including nuclear weapons, U.S. arms control positions, Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, Congress and the political parties.

After a secret multiyear investigation, the Justice Department announced the arrests Monday in a blockbuster spy case that could rival the capture of Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in 1957 in New York.

There was no clue in initial court papers how successful the agents had been, but they were alleged to have been long-term, deep cover spies, some living as couples. These deep-cover agents are the hardest spies for the FBI to catch because they take civilian jobs with no visible connection to a foreign government_ one was a reporter, editor and columnist at a New York Spanish-language newspaper. They are more elusive than spies who operate from government jobs inside Russian embassies and military missions. Abel was just such a deep cover agent; he was ultimately swapped to the Soviet Union for downed U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962.

The court papers described a new high-tech spy-to-spy communications system used by the defendants: short-range wireless communications between laptop computers – a modern supplement for the old-style dead drop in a remote area, high-speed burst radio transmission or even the hollowed-out nickels used by Abel to conceal and deliver microfilm.

But there was no lack of Cold War spycraft. According to the court papers, the alleged agents used invisible ink, stayed in touch with Moscow Center through coded bursts of data sent by a radio transmitter, used innocent-looking "brush" encounters to pass messages in public, hid encrypted data in public images and relied on fake identities and false travel documents.

On Saturday, an undercover FBI agent in New York and another in Washington, both posing as Russian agents, met with two of the defendants, Anna Chapman at a New York restaurant and Mikhail Semenko on a Washington street corner blocks from the White House. The FBI undercover agents gave each an espionage-related delivery to make. Court papers indicated Semenko made the delivery as instructed, but apparently Chapman did not.

Eight of 10 were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep-cover assignments in the United States on behalf of Russia. Two others, who were the targets of the undercover approaches, were arrested and charged separately for allegedly participating in the same Russian intelligence program within the United States. An 11th defendant, who allegedly delivered money to the defendants, is at large.

The court papers cited numerous communications intercepted by the FBI that spelled out what information was sought.