Russian spies!

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013.

What We Know So Far
Three Russian nationals have been charged with trying to spy on the U.S.
One suspect, Evgeny Buryakov, has been arrested. The other two, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, are at large.
The ring tried to collect economic intelligence and recruit U.S. residents, the FBI said.
Updates
Posted at 4:51 p.m., Jan. 26
Russian State-Owned Media Was Involved In Spy Case, Complaint Says

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One of the defendants, Igor Sporyshev, a Russian trade representative, contacted Evgeny Buryakov, a banker and another defendant in the case, to ask for his help in coming up with questions "to be used for intelligence-gathering purposes" for a Russian news outlet.
Posted at 2:35 p.m., Jan. 26
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday it charged three Russian citizens with spying on the United States.
Evgeny "Zhenya" Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev, and Vicotr Podobnyy are accused of conspiring to work as unauthorized intelligence agents for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service between 2012 and the present, according to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan U.S. District Court.

Buryakov, who was arrested on Monday in the Bronx, allegedly entered the country as a private citizen, working as a spy under deep cover while pretending to be a banker at an unnamed Russian financial institution, according to the complaint. A LinkedIn profile under his name lists him as a Deputy Representative at Vnesheconombank.

The other two defendants, who remain at large, served as diplomats at the Russian consulate in New York City and at the United Nations.

"This case is especially egregious as it demonstrates the actions of a foreign intelligence service to integrate a covert intelligence agent into American society under the cover of an employee in the financial sector," FBI Assistant Director Coleman said in a statement.

Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in charge of prosecuting the case, said that the the arrest of the three alleged highlighted tensions between Russia and the U.S.

"The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges against him and his co-defendants make clear that – more than two decades after the presumptive end of the Cold War – Russian spies continue to seek to operate in our midst under cover of secrecy," Bharara said.

The defendants are accused of recruiting New Yorkers as sources and gathering intelligence on potential new sanctions against Russia and American efforts to develop alternative energy sources.
Sporisyhev, who worked as Russia's Trade Representative in New York, is accused of relaying assignments from Moscow to Buryakov, who then used his position as a banker to collect information. Podobnyy and Sporisyhev then analyzed the information and relayed it back to Moscow, according to the complaint.

The three alleged spies avoided discussing intelligence matters over the phone and via email, preferring face-to-face meetings outdoors. The complaint alleges that Buryakov would pass Sporisyhev a bag, a magazine, or a slip of paper containing information.

Among the people that the three alleged spies tried to recruit in the United States were "several individuals employed by major companies and several young women with ties to a major university located in New York," according to the complaint. Many of these potential sources were people of Russian origin.

The defendants allegedly discussed the use of unorthodox tactics for the recruitment of sources, according to the complaint.
"I have lots of ideas about such girls but these ideas are not actionable because they don't allow to get close enough," Sporyshev allegedly told Podobnyy during a conversation about a young woman who worked at a financial consulting firm. "And in order to be close you either need to fuck them or use other levers to influence them to execute my requests."

In another conversation, the defendants allegedly tried to convince a young man with ambitions to rise through the ranks of Russian oil giant Gazprom to provide them with information in exchange for influence and contacts.

"This is intelligence method to cheat, how else to work with foreigners?" Prodobnyy allegedly told Sporisyhev. "Your promise a favor for a favor. You get the documents from him and tell him to fuck himself."

The defendants apparently used their real names while in the U.S. and sometimes expressed dissatisfaction with their covers, saying they were "not even close" to "movies about James Bond," according to the complaint.

"Of course, I wouldn't fly helicopters, but pretend to be someone else at a minimum," Podobnyy allegedly told his co-defendants in a recorded conversation.

The Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. did not respond to a request for comment via email. The phone numbers listed at the embassy’s website appeared to have been disconnected.

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Nuke scientist tried to help a "Venezuelan" intelligence officer by giving him plants to build a Nuke



AP Photo/Heather Clark, File
This Oct. 22, 2009 file photo shows former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni on his back deck in Los Alamos, N.M.

A former nuclear physicist at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release on Wednesday for conspiring to share restricted weapons data.
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 79, pleaded guilty in 2013 for conspiring with a man he believed to be a Venezuelan intelligence officer. The man was actually an FBI agent, and authorities presented the court with video of the sting operation.

"That is a nuclear warhead," Mascheroni said in the video, a portion of which was published by ABC News. "I know how to design this."

Though he pleaded guilty, Mascheroni said in an interview with the Associated Press that the U.S. government unfairly targeted him as a spy. He began approaching other countries after the U.S. rejected his ideas for cleaner and more reliable nuclear weapons and power, he told the AP.

His wife, 71-year-old Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison with three years supervised release for conspiring with her husband.

"Our laws are designed to prevent 'Restricted Data' from falling into the wrong hands because of the potential harm to our national security," U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez said in a statement. "Those who work at our country's national laboratories are charged with safeguarding that sensitive information, and we must and will vigorously prosecute anyone who compromises our nation's nuclear secrets for profit."

Pedro Mascheroni, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Argentina, worked for the national laboratory in New Mexico from 1979-1988, when he was terminated. His wife also worked there as a technical writer with a security clearance from 1981-2010.

According to a federal indictment, Mascheroni met with an FBI agent he believed to be working for the Venezuelan government at a Santa Fe hotel. Mascheroni said he could develop nuclear weapons for Venezuela, including a laser capable of blinding satellites.

He also said he could deliver a nuclear bomb within 10 years and described nuclear weapons as a way Venezuela could deter larger countries from engaging in conflict, the indictment said.

After a test of the weapons, Mascheroni said the country could cause an explosion over New York that would not kill anyone, but would destroy all electrical power, the indictment said. He later also said he expected salaries from a Venezuelan university, as well as the country's government, for his work, the indictment said.

In his guilty plea, he admitted to communicating restricted data with reason to believe it would provide an advantage to Venezuela. He also admitted to converting U.S. information to sell, as well as failing to deliver classified information about U.S national defense to authorities. He also admitted to making false statements to the FBI during their investigation.

In a press release, authorities made clear there was no actual attempt by Venezuela to gain U.S. classified information.

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Nuke scientist tried to help a "Venezuelan" intelligence officer by giving him plants to build a Nuke

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