not the guy who worked at the bank because he had no relationship with the russian government. but the other guys who had official cover and russian government jobs, whenever they had anything though transmit home, they would go to the rezidentura, a secure facility where they could make encrypted transmissions back to moscow center, back to spy headquarters in russia. and the way the fbi caught them and blew apart this spy ring with these three guys was absolutely genius. the fbi aranged to have somebody feed these guys sensitive stolen documents. and they handed these documents over in binders. and these russian guys, these spies, they took the binders with this juicy intel into the rezidentura in new york and the fbi had hidden microphones inside the binders.
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
bogus passports. investigaterings trying to track down the killer. they have their hands full. reporter: here at mi-6 in london, britain s global spy headquarters they know how tough it will be to crack this case. a handful of assassinations that have never been solved in this country. now, privately, officials in two countries that have had their passports used in this operation, have told cnn they are getting nowhere in this investigation and that s despite what they call a meticulous dubai investigation and all that cct footage. the problem, the mug shots you see here could depict the assassins already in disguise or maybe some on the hit squad have already changed their appearance. now let s take a look at the operation itself. it spans the globe, really. dubai officials say it was all staged in austria. operatives funneling all their information through a central command there, false identities
had what they call nonofficial cover who worked at this bank. the other two guys, their cover jobs were official government positions. one was a trade representative for russia. one of them worked at the russian mission to the u.n. when it came time for at home feed their stolen documents and intel from their spy ring back to moscow, what would happen is these two guys who had official cover, they would take care of that part of it. not the guy who worked at the bank because he had no relationship with the russian government. but the other guys who had official cover and russian government jobs, whenever they had anything though transmit home, they would go to the residentura, a secure facility where they could make encrypted transmissions back to moscow center, back to spy headquarters