moscow center uses steganographic software that is not commercially available. it permits the svr to insert data in the images posted on publicly available web sites without the data being visible. the data can be removed from the picture and decrypted also using software provided by the svr. similarly, svr software can be used to encrypt data and then to clandestinely bend it on publicly available websites. the fbi later released this photo of online images of flowers to show some of the actual images that the russians used to pass information back and forth with moscow center. messages encrypted in individual pixels in these images of flowers. crazy, right? in an fbi search of donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley s house in boston in 2006,
about what they had been told to here by moscow and what they told moscow, what they carried out here under moscow s orders. we also learned all this spy information about their spy information. to further the aims of the conspiracy, moscow center has arranged for the defendants clandestinely to communicate with the russian federation. they have use the secret methods used below, radio grams and steganography. steganography. that must be a dinosaur related code. you go to the museum of natural history. under the hoof. as it turns out, steggen nothingraphy it is an actual spy thing according to the fbi this steegen nothingraphy is the process of secreting data in an i think.
heathfield and tracy leanne foley were called the boston conspirators. it says in the indictment the boston conspirators have received info tackles, directives that moscow center wanted them to focus on obtaining including, among other things, u.s. foreign policy. for example, a message from in or about april 2006 set forth the info task for may and june which was that they should gather information regarding u.s. policy with regard to the use of the internet by terrorists, u.s. policies in central asia, problems with u.s. military policy and the western estimation of russian foreign policy. quote, a boston conspirator s electronic message to moscow center from 2006 focused on turnover at the head of the u.s. cia. so the fbi unsealed this indictment in 2010. we got all of this very specific directly quoted information