A sole protester stood outside the complex known as the Russian Diplomatic Compound in New York City’s Riverdale neighborhood on Thursday, hours after a long-anticipated war began across the world in Ukraine.
, he lived a double life in America for 10 years – during which time he worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. Barsky left the job and was later arrested by the FBI. He is now an American citizen who has become a prominent author and public speaker.
There are Russian diplomats living inside the complex who are not intelligence officers, he went on."And then you have others that, they do the diplomatic job probably one or two hours a day. And the rest of the day is spent collecting intelligence" to fill information gaps and then sending that information to the Russian government in Moscow, he said. Rebekah Koffler, a Russian-born former intelligence officer for the U.S.
Koffler, author of"Putin’s Playbook," added that Russian intelligence officers"do their homework for years," regardless of whether the information is pertinent to current events. "It’s not like they try to steal your wallet or your purse and get your information that way," she said."It’s called targeteering – they identify, ‘OK, we need a list, we need somebody in your State Department,’ or, ‘We need somebody at the United Nations’ … and they do their homework and they study" their target, Koffler further said.
During his time investigating Russian operatives and goals, Chechnya was among the topics of importance for the federation, Dreeke said. "Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War," a book written by Pete Earley, describes the compound as having a flat roof under which there were"dozens of antennas designed to match signals and conversations from New York City’s airwaves."
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