DAILY NEWS NY: 10 Russian spy suspects plead guilty; swap in in works to trade the 10 for 4 US agents held in Russia

Ten suspected Russian sleeper spies pleaded guilty Thursday in a Manhattan courtroom and could be out of the country by sundown - sent home in a swap with Moscow for four of Washington's blown secret agents. [more...]

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Spionage USA: WIRED - FBI: Spies Hid Secret Messages on Public Websites

Moscow communicated with a ring of alleged spies in America by encoding instructions in otherwise innocent-looking images on public websites. It’s a process called steganography. And it’s one of a slew of high-tech and time-tested methods that the deep-cover agents and their Russian handlers used to pass information — from private Wi-Fi networks to buried paper bags. [more...]

New York Times: Suspected Spy Was Ready to Leave U.S., F.B.I. Believed - Spionagefall USA

WASHINGTON — F.B.I. agents who had tracked a Russian spy ring for more than a decade moved quickly to roll up the network after learning that one of the suspected spies was planning to fly out of the United States on Sunday night, according to two American officials familiar with the case. [more...]

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