fulfill your main mission, to seven and develop ties in the u.s. and send intel reports to moscow s center. that was really their mission, they were sort of the entering wedge and you might say the real espionage people would follow. they re not actually charged with espionage, they re not charged with spying, they re charged with being agents of a foreign government and not registers. you might ask yourself who would register as an agent of former government, and the answer is people who are doing it out in the open, lobbyists and people who represent people of foreign government. but these people were masquerading as u.s. citizens. one person told me that their cover was so deep that those who came here and got married to each other, russians marrying russians under cover had children who may not have realized that mom and dad were spies. pete williams, our msnbc