americans. and send intel home to mother russia. in 2009, the fbi said it intercepted and decrypted a message from russian intelligence headquarters in moscow to two of the defendants. and the message reportedly said you were sent to usa for long-term service trip. your education, bank accounts, car, house, et cetera, all of these serve one goal. fulfill your main mission, i.e., to search and develop ties and policy making circles in u.s. and send intels to c. the complaint says the alleged spies were trained by the russian foreign intelligence service. gaining expertise in languages, including the use of brush passes, short wave radio operation, and invisible writing. also the use of codes and ciphers including the use of incrypted morse code messages. invisible writing.
york, and apparently she s born in peru. at this stage it looks like most of them are russian. okay. in terms of the techniques that they used, obviously that s some of the salaciousness of this story. it s a salacious story anyway, but invisible writing, short-wave radio, brush passes, what else can you tell us about the techniques they re accused of using, both to maintain their cover and to send information home? right. well, they were using something called stegnotography, which is hiding data and messages on publicly available websites. for example in a photograph you could hide data and information which could be decrypted using special software. they also were using some sort of like short-wave radio to send morse code-like messages back to moscow or to communicate with each other. so we re talking about stuff
get this, as americanized as possible. gathering information about the united states, trade information, foreign policy information, economic information which was then given over to other russian agents in what are called brush passes which are quick passes. you probably have seen this in the movies where they go to a train station, public park and just kind of walk by each other and sleep each other the encoded memory stick, computer memory stick. now, some of these defendants did appear in manhattan federal court yesterday. they were arrested in not only locations throughout the new york, new jersey area. yonkers as i mentioned, another suburb of the city, montclair, new jersey but also boston and virginia as well. they re facing charges including conspiracy to act as an agent for a foreign government and also, money laundering. these are charges that could range up to in sentences up to 20 years in prison.
message from mouse cow to two of the defendants and it reportedly said, you were sent to usa for long-term service trip. your education, bank accounts, car, house, et cetera, all of these serve one goal. fulfill your main mission, to search and develop ties in policy-making circles in u.s. and send intels to c. presumably center. the complaint says the alleged spies were trained by the russian foreign intelligence service, successor to the soviet era kgb in intelligence garting, gaining expertise in foreign languages, agent-to-agent communications including the use of brush passes, short wave radio operation and invisible writing. also the use of codes and cyphers. invisible writing! the justice department complaint i m not exaggerating, it really does read like a spy novel. the suspects using private
pennsylvania. there was at least one one of the people who were arrested who appears to be a spanish lanyards reporter for a newspaper in new york. and apparently she s born in peru. so at this stage, it looks like most of them are russian. okay. in terms of the techniques that they used, obviously that s some of the salaciousness of the story. it s a salacious story anyway. but invisible writing, short wave radio, brush passes, what else can you tell us about the techniques they re using to maintain their cover and to send information home? right, well they were using something called stegnography. you could hide data and information which could then be decrypted using special software. they were also using, you know, some sort of short wave radio to