leanne foley at the fbi, the fbi agent who led this covert fbi operation that monitored those two russian spies for years, all the surveillance these trained spies were unable to detect, all the intelligence collection from right under their noses breaking their codes and miking their house and photographing their notes and all the rest of it, that lead agent who ran that intrepid fbi operation against donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley was an fbi agent named peter strzok. being the lead agent on heathfield and foley was just one of the high stakes espionage cases that peter strzok has worked on or led at the fbi. he won a medal for his work on that one. but he also worked on other russian spy rings in the u.s. and chinese spy rings in the united states other more than 20 years at the fbi he rose toes become the senior agent on all espionage cases at the washington field office the at the fbi and became the head of
box, photographing them. miking their house. the fbi had secretly gone inside their house on multiple occasions. they had photographed their notes and letters. they photographed this page from this notebook from donald heathfield which apparently includes his handwritten notes on the 27-digit password he needed to log into that software that allowed him to encrypt his messages in online pictures. they had the picture of the password code. the fbi was that up in their business for that many years and these trained spies had no clue. by the time of their indictment in 2010, the fbi not only had detailed descriptions of their trade craft and verbatim instructions they received from moscow, not only did they have all the means by which they communicated with their handlers. including all of the names of all of the people who donald heathfield had approached as part of his spying for moscow. he was supposedly a guy with a harvard degree and good language skills who was working at a
canada, they went to france for him to go to grad school, then they finally did it. they moved to the united states. donald heathfield enrolled at the kennedy school of government at harvard. look, we have a terrible photo of donald heathfield at his harvard graduation from the kennedy school in the year 2000. the reason that we have this not great photo, this grainy photo taken from very far away in the year of 2000 is because this photo was taken by the fbi. because the fbi apparently knew as soon as donald heathfield and his purportedly canadian family got to the united states, the fbi apparently knew that they weren t canadians at all, they were in fact russian spies living under deep cover. donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley had been living for two decades in canada and then in europe before they ever set foot in the united states to start spying for russia here. we now know that the fbi was on to them as spies as soon as they got here.