"This individual's name came up in the course of the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Russian illegal agents," the official said Tuesday.
Now American investigators knew where to look, and how to decipher encrypted messages sent to illegal agents hiding in the US.
"The Cold War and the Soviet Union are in the past," the BIS says at one point, "but not the Russian passion for influential and active measures (including illegal agents)."Interestingly, the BIS report also includes a new emphasis on China.
The Myerses, who live in Washington, were arrested on Thursday and charged in a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday with serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government and wire fraud.
According to the KGB curator, the British-based Gordon Lonsdale was one of the most effective Soviet "illegal" agents.
Hong had paid an illegal job agent the equivalent of about $700 for his new worker, according to court records.
See articleA Venezuelan, Franklin Durán, was convicted in Miami of acting as an illegal foreign agent in trying to buy the silence of a man who was stopped at Buenos Aires airport last year while carrying a suitcase containing $800,000.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian rebels said Monday that they had shot down a government helicopter in the east of the country, killing eight security troops, as new accusations emerged that insurgents seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad may have used an illegal nerve agent in the country's grinding civil war.
Asked how they would carry out the vetting, as it was illegal, the agent from A to Z said: "We don't say to them 'no' there and then but we say, 'OK we're going to have to come back to you' and then we don't call them back".
But Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, the businessman, who is a key witness in the trial in Miami of a man charged with acting as an illegal Venezuelan agent in the United States, said Tuesday that after the first suitcase was seized, he met with an executive of Venezuela's state oil company.
