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Russian Spies to Return to the USA: Risks and Opportunities

Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 08:16:47 No.1388657 View View Reply Original Report

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Moscow sees the strengthening of its diplomatic presence as an opportunity to rebuild its espionage network in the West, American officials warn. This is a crucial issue in the ongoing talks.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 08:17:22 No.1388659 Report

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Russia views the strengthening of its diplomatic presence in the United States as "an opportunity to rebuild its espionage network in the West." The restoration of regular operations of respective embassies and consulates is one of the points discussed by Washington and Moscow during the phone call between leaders Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and in two subsequent rounds of talks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. This is reported by CNN, citing current and former U.S. officials.

As the American broadcaster recalls, Russia's espionage capabilities have been significantly eroded over the past decade. Since 2016, more than 100 Russian diplomats suspected of espionage have been expelled from the United States, and at least 600 have been expelled from European countries in response to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Moreover, Moscow has been without an ambassador in Washington since last October when Anatoly Antonov left his post. Yesterday, Russia announced the sending of his successor, whom Washington has greenlighted: Alexander Darchiyev, former ambassador to Canada and head of the delegation that flew to Turkey for this week's talks.

For Moscow, the issue is so important, two U.S. officials cited by CNN declared, that the Russians refuse to organize another high-level meeting until substantial progress is made in restoring Russia's presence in the United States. "They still rely heavily on human intelligence and place a high value on these presences and the ability for officials to meet contacts," a source said. The Russians also want their officials to be able to stay in the United States longer, said a former U.S. official, which would give them the opportunity to operate and recruit more effectively.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 08:18:31 No.1388661 Report

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At stake are also the Russian diplomatic properties in San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C., which the United States seized in 2017 in response to Russia's interference in the 2016 elections. Trump also closed the Russian consulate in Seattle in 2018 due to its proximity to a U.S. submarine base, Naval Base Kitsap.

The return of Russian spies under diplomatic cover—particularly SVR (foreign intelligence) and GRU (military intelligence) officials—would require increased counterintelligence efforts from the United States. CNN highlights the difficulties the FBI might face, already short of resources (under threats from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency) and now more cautious in pursuing Russian counterintelligence cases. "Since we have been the main enemy of Russia for many years and because English is the lingua franca of the world, the Russians have a large number of agents with excellent English to send here," said John Sipher, former CIA clandestine service official, to SpyTalk. "And this automatically advantages the Russians because, in addition to all that, the FBI is reducing its counterintelligence personnel and does not have the same resources to track these Russian spies as the Russians do to monitor our agents there."

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 08:19:39 No.1388663 Report

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Charles Sam Faddis, former CIA, explained to SpyTalk that the real work of monitoring foreign spies in the United States is very different from what is portrayed in TV series, where one or two agents follow their target a few meters away. "In the real world, it takes at least three teams, each consisting of eight people, working 24 hours a day, with continuous rotations and vehicle changes. And that's just to monitor a single individual," he said. "And if the Russian official is particularly skilled, that kind of surveillance won't necessarily prevent him from operating." The only positive aspect of the increase in Russian spies in Washington, former intelligence officials told SpyTalk, is that it provides the United States with more targets for recruitment. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the FBI began broadcasting advertisements at the Russian embassy in Washington, inviting its employees to defect
"Complex problems can present complex opportunities," said James Lawler, also a former CIA official. "If they have more SVR and GRU officials in their residency, it increases the chances that some of them will be discontented and vulnerable to our recruitment."

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 10:14:11 No.1388666 Report

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>>1388657
None blog post. Ukraine is still losing the war

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 10:35:27 No.1388668 Report

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>>1388666
Satan is right.

treacherous president creates traitorous citizens

treacherous president creates traitorous citizens Sun 02 Mar 2025 14:02:01 No.1388676 Report

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Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 15:23:37 No.1388678 Report

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Thanks to the Trump administration. Russia has defeated the US without even doing anything

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 15:44:17 No.1388679 Report

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>>1388678
Biden started and aggravated the war tho. Trump is the one and sole reason the end of it was possible. Shoo. Away with you. 47 months of hell for you

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 17:48:09 No.1388688 Report

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>>1388678
They haven't defeated us. They are our allies. They will support us when we conquer Canada.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 17:51:01 No.1388689 Report

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>>1388676
weird how the feds who hate Trump are the ones being recruited as spies for China ans Russia.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 17:52:49 No.1388690 Report

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>>1388678
Congratulations to Russia for not allowing the Biden administration to start a world war

treacherous president creates traitorous citizens

treacherous president creates traitorous citizens Sun 02 Mar 2025 18:25:15 No.1388698 Report

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>>1388689
>weird how the feds who hate Trump are the ones being recruited as spies for China ans Russia.
Not weird but stupid of you cretin for not realizing that being laid off and fired after years of service simply because tRumps an asshole makes one angry

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 18:38:49 No.1388700 Report

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>>1388698
>T-treason i-is justified, because grrrRumpf!
The mentally handicapped, everyone.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 18:57:07 No.1388703 Report

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First of all, our allies in Europe, have always been tugging on our pants legs. They won’t lift a finger to help themselves and worse as stated in a speech recently vice president Vance exposed them as authoritarian socialistic …which is very worrying. We must band together with other christian conservative nations such as Russia and Israel to withstand this new tide of global communism, and we aren't going to be doing that by antagonizing them.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 19:11:22 No.1388705 Report

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>>1388703
you're not american. now get upset

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