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
deposit box, they found that one tiny marginal missed reference on one negative. they found that january 2001. they took that evidence, photographic evidence, right? they put all the negatives back, put everything back as it was and they left the safe deposit box there and then they just kept surveiling, heath field, in 2010 the fbi had reason to go back into the same safe deposit box, the negatives were still there a decade later because heathfield and foley had no idea it had been spied on for a decade. they had no idea the fbi had been on them for ten years. 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
collection from right under their knows and photographing their notes and all the rest of that. the lead agent who led the investigation was an fbi agent named peter struzok. being a lead agent on heathfield and foley was one of the high profile espionage cases he led at the fbi. he won a medal for that one. he worked on other russian spy rings in the united states and chinese spy rings. over 20 years he rose to become the senior agent on all espionage agents. he became the head of the counter intelligence division for the whole fbi. in that capacity he ended up involved in the investigation of hillary clinton using a personal e-mail address when she was secretary of state. in that capacity as head of
parents were spies. they really had assumed these notional identities, and that s who they were day in and day out. in fact the murphys at home, you never heard them use russian. so they kept to their legend even when they thought they were by themselves. what is a legend? backstory. it s their persona, their identity, and everything that goes along with it, all of which is fake. legend building takes place over the course of years. russia has whole offices devoted to doing this. some of the identities are completely fictitious, like the murphys. in the case of the boston couple, heathfield, they are what are called a dead couple. someone identified a deceased canadian infant, they concealed that identity and built an identity around it using original documents they request from canadian authorities.
parents were spies. they really had assumed these notional identities, and that s who they were day in and day out. in fact, the murphys at home, you never heard them use russian. so they kept to their legend even when they thought they were by themselves. what is a legend? backstory. it s their persona, their identity, and everything that goes along with it, all of which is fake. legend building takes place over the course of years. russia has whole offices devoted to doing this. some of the identities are completely fictitious, like the murphys. in the case of the boston couple, heathfield, they are we call a dead double. someone identified a deceased canadian infant, and they sealed that identity and built an identity around it using original documents that they request from canadian authorities who don t know who they re sending them to.