old techniques are the best way to do it dead drops, brush passes. a dred drop is where you put something like on the ground what lan son did, you bury something, they get it and put money someplace else for you. that s a dead drop. if you re disciplined and follow your trade craft like hansen did for years and years, it s almost impossible to catch them without a source of information from somewhere else. what happens is after they ve been here for a long type, they have kids and they get tired, and all that wears away at the discipline. you know, i was finding out the other day, my father s in intelligence in philly and i didn t think he had a very exciting job but somebody dug this up, he was sitting there with a newspaper spying on somebody in intelligence. like looking through the hole in the newspaper. this stuff. your thoughts, jack? did you discover anything that was new here in the trade craft of spies besides having a beautiful woman as your lure? well, you know what? t
your police force is quite out of hand, putting people in jail like that. it turns out the fbi was watching the whole time. former officials say the suspects never went after classified information, but it had all the elements of a bad spy novel. let s play ball. they used brush passes like in the thomas crown affair and had special passwords and notes written anyone visible ink. what about president obama s hamburger summit with president medvedev only last week? i do not believe that this will affect the reset of our relationship with russia. you think not? well, anyway, one of the high-profile americans who had no idea that he was dealing with a russian spy, new york democratic fund-raiser and financier, allen patrickov, long-standing friend and supporter of hillary and bill clinton. he told the washington post it s staggering, off the charts, when he realized he was the unnamed new york businessman who was supposed to be the unsuspecting contact for the
prime minister putin scolded bill clinton about the arrest saying you came to moscow at an excellent time, putting people in jake like that. it turns out the fbi was watching the whole time. former officials say the suspects never went after classified information. but it had all of the elements of a bad spy novel. let s play ball. they used brush passes like in the thomas crown affair and special passwords and notes written in invisible ink. what about president obama s hamburger summit with president medvedev last week? i don t think this will affect our relationship with rush shall. we have special passwords here at morning joe. our next guest his model for success is the envy of school systems around the country. jonathan capehart geoff canadian is coming up next.
two elementary school-aged children who quite possibly could be left behind in this if their parents end up in prison, and there has to be some sort of an amazing mindset to have children, to build such a life and discard it, because your operational profile is to be a spy and recruit spies. reporter: eric o neal is a former fbi operative who helped to take down russia s operative mole robert hanson. he says it is unusual to have this many suburban families. the spy craft, some of it say it is the stuff of novels, like invisible ink and traditional methods of exchanging information and money, and dead drops, and brush passes. the brush pass happens when you pass by this blackberry like eric o neal and i will do, and what is the object here,er aric? the objective is to exchange
staffers, government officials. they acted like the folks next door they got money from their russian handlers, one of whom was arrested this morning, so that now brings to 11 the number of people arrested here. they communicated by all sorts of clandestine methods they can he would put the pictures on the internet that had messages on them, send bursts of short-wave signals do what they call brush passes, one certain walking up the stairs, one person is walking down the stairs at the train station they both carrying identical briefcases, one gets the money and he share it is with his friends. you know, pete, this feels like it was a putin decision to do something like this when putin was in charge of things because you know it is funny, this weekend, i had obama administration officials brag to me, they said, you know what, relations with russia and united states haven t been this good since yeltsin, back in the let me just add to that i had one u.s. official say, in fact, obama