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New FBI Pictures And Videos Show Suburbanite Russian Spy Ring At Work

Jillian Rayfield | October 31, 2011, 1:19PM

Remember Anna Chapman and those 10 other Russian sleeper agents arrested last year?

Following a public records request by the Associated Press, the FBI on Monday released video, surveillance photos and documents related to the over-decade long "Operation Ghost Stories," which led to the arrest of the spies in June 2010.

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Russian Tradecraft Ain't What It Used To Be

Justin Elliott | July 1, 2010, 10:20AM

Accused Russian spy Anna Chapman.

By definition, the 11 eleven alleged secret agents arrested this week were clearly not the best that Russian intelligence has to offer: they got caught.

But perhaps the most striking thread running through the two complaints filed by federal prosecutors this week is the sheer incompetence of the alleged espionage operation. It was, in fact, so incompetent that the American government couldn't even charge the alleged spies with espionage, having to rely solely on charges that the spies acted as unregistered foreign agents and laundered money in order to hold them.