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How to identify a spy agent6/3/2023 ![]() Yet much of what the public and even policymakers know about this complicated subject is shaped by old James Bond films or John le Carré novels - and that needs to end, according to Calder Walton, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Suddenly, the topic of spies and spying dominates newsfeeds. And this week, former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said that he opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether the president might have been acting on behalf of Russia after Trump fired McCabe’s boss while the FBI probed that country’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. prosecutors that she was an agent for Russia while cozying up to officials in the National Rifle Association and the Republican Party. A Russian woman acting as a graduate student admitted to U.S. Just in the past year, three men identified as Russian military intelligence officers were accused of poisoning a former spy, his daughter, and two others, using a deadly nerve agent. But in an age of almost limitless electronic surveillance, that’s become much harder to do. Spying is a secret world that strives mightily to stay out of the public eye.
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