Vladimir Putin sits with the head of Russia’s spy agency, Mikhail Fradkov (right), in December. (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters) Secret rendezvous and document handoffs. Coded messages. Using money and sex as recruitment tools. A trip to Atlantic City to scout out a casino deal that turned out to be bogus. The charges that the Justice Department unveiled against a suspected Russian spy ring on Monday sounded like a Cold War thriller, except it was all happening over the last three years in New York City—just as tensions between the U.S. and Moscow have risen to levels not seen in more than …read more
Source: The Atlantic
