Spying: Tradecrafts Of The Game

Written by Maloy Krishna Dhar on July 16, 2010 – 12:00 am -

(Some parts of the essay have been adopted from author’s forthcoming book: Intelligence-Basics of Tradecraft)

The recent spy swap between the USA and Russia is reminiscent of the Cold War era intensified espionage game played by the Soviet regime and the USA, Britain and their allies in the so-called Free World.

The FBI and CIA were aware of the existence of a substantial sleeper spy cell in the suburbs of New York, planted with meticulous planning by the Russian foreign intelligence agency, SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki).
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