1/ #OTD IN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY HISTORY – On July 9, 2010 -- after a multi-year investigation by the FBI and other elements of the US Intelligence Community -- ten deep-cover Russian “illegals” (operatives of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)) were... 
2/ exchanged in Vienna, Austria, for four individuals who had been jailed in Russia for alleged contact with Western intelligence agencies. The day before, the Russian illegals pleaded guilty in federal court in NYC to conspiring to serve as Russian agents in a case that...
3/ served as a chilling reminder that espionage on U.S. soil did not disappear with the end of the Cold War. The Russian govt. spent significant funds and many years training and deploying these “SVR illegals” to establish a presence in the U.S. and develop sources of info. ...
4/ into U.S. policymaking circles. The SVR was in it for the long haul as the SVR illegals identified colleagues, friends, and others who might be possible targets for recruitment and info. Watch footage of one of these Russian spies meeting with an undercover FBI agent in a...
5/ NYC coffee shop in June 2010. Learn more about this @FBI case here fbi.gov/news/stories/o… and here justice.gov/opa/pr/ten-all…. #FBI #counterintelligence
