in how to act american, but most importantly, it s manchurian candidate stuff and you wonder how far did they go? if you put a time magazine up, if one of the spies had a time magazine in their hand, then that meant that they were canceling their meeting. coming up in the half hour, we re going to talk to a former british spy about how prevalent this type of espionage is in years since the cold war. general david petraeus testified on capitol hill as president obama s nominee to take over the war in afghanistan. the general was questioned on whether he supported obama s july 2011 exit date for american troops. here is his nuanced answer. it is important to note that the president s reminder in
americans, but here is your mission statement, at least as alleged by the department of justice, it says the following, you were sent to the u.s. for long-term service trip, your education, bank accounts, car, house, et cetera, all these served one goal, fulfill your main mission, ie to search and develop ties in the the u.s. and send intelligence reports to center, that s aka, the spy headquarters. live is the former british spy and cold arrest expert, i appreciate your time. normally you would think of spies as working in government or military operations, but in this case, it seems different, is this the way it normally goes and we just don t know about it? you re absolutely right, that normally you have intelligence officers who may be assigned to the embassy, you have nonofficial cover. but one of the things that really comes from the cold war
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only way to make sure the government isn t relying on bp to fix the problem. that s going to do it for me this hour, i m peter alexander. chris jansing is picking up things next, she s going to talk to the spy thriller author about the real life case that reads like something out of his book. the russian spies living in america under deep, deep cover. it s soo good. this is insanely good. see, i thank you for stuff! oh and thanks for the roof over my head.and stuff like that. you should come over more often. and thanks for having such exquisite taste. [ female announcer ] give the cool whip. get the love.
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