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On March 28, 2014 Igor Sporyshev, according to the Feds, a Russian spy who held himself out as a Trade Representative of Russian Federation, calls banker Evgeny Buryakov and asks Buryakov to research the effects of economic sanctions on “our country.” Buryakov, arrested on Monday morning and currently being held at the federal prison known as the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, obliged and conducted an “internet search.”
* - Igor Sporyshev is the son of a high ranking Russian intelligence officer
* - Sporyshev is accused of being part of an 'espionage ring' in America
* - Officially, the 40-year-old was registered as a Russian trade representative
* - FBI recorded Sporyshev allegedly explaining why recruiting women is hard
* - Alleged spy Victor Podobnyy, 27, complained his role was not like Bond's
* - Charged on Monday, but had left the country under diplomatic cover
* - Speculation third 'spy' Evgeny Buryakov planning a Wall Street meltdown
* - Russia claims the U.S. has provided no evidence to back up the charges
originally posted by: Xcathdra
@ the op - using all caps in your title is a bit of an over kill. Secondly since they have diplomatic status we cant touch them. While you may only see a google search I see 2 individuals who were compromised which essentially will end their career in any country with a news paper. IE good luck finding new jobs outside Russia. The goal is top stop them before they cause damage - mission complete.
originally posted by: finemanm
So, the FBI arrested a spy from a a so called Russian Spy ring in New York that consisted of three alleged agents, and according to the federal complaint, it doesn't seem like the guy did much more that do some google research for the Russian government.
On March 28, 2014 Igor Sporyshev, according to the Feds, a Russian spy who held himself out as a Trade Representative of Russian Federation, calls banker Evgeny Buryakov and asks Buryakov to research the effects of economic sanctions on “our country.” Buryakov, arrested on Monday morning and currently being held at the federal prison known as the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, obliged and conducted an “internet search.”
crimeblogdaily.com...
They follow the so called Russian agents for three years and all they can get on these guys is a failure to register as a foreign agent.
The Complaint filed in Federal Court
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: Xcathdra
@ the op - using all caps in your title is a bit of an over kill. Secondly since they have diplomatic status we cant touch them. While you may only see a google search I see 2 individuals who were compromised which essentially will end their career in any country with a news paper. IE good luck finding new jobs outside Russia. The goal is top stop them before they cause damage - mission complete.
Any opportunity here for the pro-Russians to claim that "Murica" is the "evil-doer" will be jumped upon with relish.
The fact is, Russia has spies in all relevant countries, just as we have spies in Russia. The naive belief that this is something from the annals of James Bond and nothing more is of course nonsense.
It's entirely expected that there would be Russian spies in the US, and they would be in positions which gain them access to information useful to the Kremlin.
Sounds to me as though the FBI did their jobs and exposed a Russian threat within the US. The information is available and clear to see for anyone who wants to read it, and actually comprehend it through their irrational fog of anti-Western nonsense.