THE THOUGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF SULTENG – The main brain of this entire movement is SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki), Russia’s civilian foreign intelligence service which became the direct successor to the KGB after the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991.
Under the command of SVR headquarters in Moscow’s Yasenevo District, the operation was designed as a long-term, high-level mission known as the Illegals or Illegal Agents program. These agents trained for years to shed their Russian identities, infiltrate the United States using fake names, marry, raise families, and pretend to be ordinary, middle-class civilians in order to court policy circles in Washington.
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This silent infiltration operation lasted a very long time, but ended in a complete and embarrassing failure. The SVR secret agent network began to enter and settle in various cities in the United States, such as New York, Boston and Virginia. The FBI had actually sniffed out their whereabouts and carried out super tight surveillance for a decade under code names Operation Ghost Stories (Operation Ghost Stories).
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Their mission was officially declared a complete failure when the FBI carried out simultaneous raids and arrested 10 Russian secret agents before they succeeded in obtaining important secret Pentagon documents. Among the 10 Russian agents arrested, the figure who has attracted the most world attention is Anna Chapman, whose real name is Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko. SVR placed him in New York under the guise of a high-profile digital real-estate entrepreneur so he could infiltrate jet-set parties and court high-ranking US government officials and tech entrepreneurs.
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Despite rigorous training, Anna and her network made tactical errors in communication. They often use closed (ad-hoc) private Wi-Fi networks to transfer data in public places such as Starbucks or bookstores using laptops. The FBI, who had been stalking them, managed to tap into the radio waves and record their every data movement.
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The mission’s breaking point occurred when an FBI counterintelligence agent disguised himself as the handler (handler) from the Russian embassy. This fake FBI agent met Anna Chapman at a coffee shop in New York and gave her instructions to deliver the fake passport to another Russian agent.
Anna felt suspicious about the meeting. He immediately bought a disposable cell phone (burner phones) to call his father in Moscow who was also a former high-ranking KGB official. The father ordered him to immediately hand over the passport to the police station and to cancel the mission because they had been framed. However, Anna’s movement was too late. As soon as he stepped outside, FBI agents immediately arrested him.
The long-term espionage mission that the SVR had been building for decades fell apart overnight. The SVR failed to obtain foreign policy information or US nuclear secrets because the FBI deliberately cut off their access before they managed to penetrate the Pentagon’s inner circle.
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In July 2010, all ten Ghost Stories agents pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to act as illegal foreign agents. Shortly thereafter, they were deported to Russia in the largest prisoner exchange scheme since the Cold War, in which they were exchanged for four Russian citizens imprisoned for espionage for the West.
Although when they returned to Moscow they were greeted like heroes by President Vladimir Putin, tactically, this SVR operation was recorded in western intelligence history as one of the failures of infiltration. sleeper agent biggest in the 21st century.***
