• The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover. An investigation...
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    operations of this group was dubbed by American authorities as the "Illegals Program" directed by Russia. Waldo Mariscal, the eldest son of Peláez, claimed...
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    who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring. At the time of her arrest, she was accused of...
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  • beginning with Illegal Illegal agent, also known as Operational cover Illegals Program, Russian spies arrested in the United States in 2010 The Illegal (disambiguation)...
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  • as a high-level agent of the KGB, he oversaw the execution of the "Illegals Program" in the United States from 1979 until 1991. Drozdov was a recipient...
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  • counterintelligence services about their intelligence activities and connections. Illegals Program Sleeper agent Yuri Shvets Meier 2010, p. 147. Shulsky & Schmitt 2002...
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    of the Illegals Program. "Russian 'Illegals' Sleeper Agent Dies Aged 79". The Moscow Times. April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022. "Illegal intelligence...
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    sleeper agents in the United States. Both had participated in the Illegals Program and were arrested in 2010. They were returned to Russia that year....
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  • arrested 10 Russian agents, whose deep cover operation was named the Illegals Program by the Department of Justice. Posing as ordinary American citizens...
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  • shared his dream of joining the KGB. When Philip is accepted into the Illegals Program (where KGB agents live permanently undercover in the US, posing as...
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    The Americans (category FX Networks original programming)
    influenced to write a pilot script for the series by the 2010 events of the Illegals Program. His research material included notes on the KGB's Cold War left by...
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  • Night Manager, Covert Affairs, The Spy, Patriot, and Slow Horses. Illegals Program Secret identity Sleeper agent Shannon, Elaine (February 20, 1995)....
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  • of Russian spies operating within the United States, known as the Illegals Program. In late June 2010, the CIA led a successful operation to extract Poteyev...
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  • Illegal agent may refer to: Non-official cover, an espionage operative without official government links who assume covert roles Illegals Program, a specific...
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  • Spies is a 2020 nonfiction book by Gordon Corera about the Russian Illegals Program. It discusses the long-term infiltration and espionage efforts by the...
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    life in prison. June 2010: With the breakup of known parts of the Illegals Program, 10 individuals who allegedly carried on deep-cover espionage activities...
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    convoy support during both Mikhail Khodorkovsky cases. Saturns provide illegals program agent protection in Moscow. Airborne training Anti-prison riot Cold-weather...
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  • discovered by the FBI up to 2010, one way that Russian agents of the Illegals Program were receiving instructions was via coded messages on shortwave radio...
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    within the USSR. After his return to Moscow, Fisher was employed by the Illegals Directorate of the KGB's First Chief Directorate, giving speeches and lecturing...
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  • officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal...
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  • As a teenager, the KGB approached Elizabeth as a candidate for the Illegals Program. Although prohibited from telling anyone, Elizabeth surreptitiously...
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    intelligence gathering are budgeted to various Defense Dept. agencies and their programs. Under the intelligence reorganization of 2004, the director of national...
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    presiding judge over the US case against ten alleged Russian 'illegals' involved in the Illegals Program. She accepted the defendants' guilty pleas and sentenced...
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    collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in a massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications. On July 20, 2006...
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  • Amiri Valery Mikhailov Col. Vladimir Lazar The Russian 10 from the Illegals Program - included: Richard and Cynthia Murphy, Juan Lazaro, Vicky Peláez and...
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  • with various U.S. government agencies. These Soviet espionage networks illegally transmitted confidential information to Moscow, such as information on...
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  • December 2019. "Illegals". 13 December 2011. Archived from the original on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017. "Crimes by Illegals are Buried in Amnesty...
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    as a Canadian businessman during the Cold War, he was a non-official (illegal) KGB intelligence agent and the mastermind of the Portland spy ring, which...
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  • Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley Two Russians in Canada under the Illegals Program Maria Butina Anna Chapman Donald Heathfield Jack Barsky Sleeper agent...
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    for Russian spies arrested in the U.S. during the break-up of the Illegals Program. Denies any involvement in spying. Edmond Pope – A retired intelligence...
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