3/17/2023 0 Comments Russian espionage![]() They believed that a bug - a listening device - had been placed inside the State Department’s rear facade. In reviewing the film, the intelligence community concluded that Gusev’s actions were consistent with a technical operation. He would park it, leave it for a couple of hours, then come back and drive off. Days later, another film revealed him driving a car up the same street where the bench was located. Once we watched him sitting on the bench with one hand in the bag, one hand in his shirt pocket, smoking a cigarette all the while reading the Washington Post upside down. He had (a) bag next to him, one hand in the bag, and an earphone plug was in his ear with the wire snaking into the bag. In one film, Gusev was sitting on a bench in the back of the main State Department building. The intelligence community believed Gusev was a KGB technical officer working under diplomatic cover in the United States. Under my agreement I can’t use his name, but he showed me videotapes and still pictures of a Russian diplomat. ROBERT DAVID BOOTH: Sacred Ibis was brought to us by an FBI agent. Below is a transcript of our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity. Booth, also the author of “State Department Counterintelligence: Leaks, Spies and Lies,” spent some time with CNN to talk about that investigation. The resulting investigation was code-named Sacred Ibis. In early 1999, Booth and his colleagues learned that Russian spies were listening to classified conversations deep in the heart of Washington’s State Department building – inside a conference room in the same corridor as the Secretary of State’s personal office. The retired State Department deputy director of counterintelligence was able to investigate a spy and then actually help to plan and execute an arrest – a rare thrill that Booth considers himself lucky to be a part of. Why wiretapping is still used by agencies ![]()
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