By Allan Lengel AOL News More than than 60 people were indicted today on charges of stealing millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts through mischievous computer attacks. In announcing the local and federal indictments, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York said that modern high-tech bank heists no longer require “a gun, a mask,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In the end, it left me scratching my head. Russian spies. Huh. So 60s. So Sputnik-era like. Forgive me, but some how, with al Qaeda and every other hell-bent-to-destroy-America group out there, Russian spies don’t seem all that threatening. Nonetheless, the FBI arrested 10 last week. And on Thursday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Trades in sports like the NBA often garner plenty of attention. But this trade is different: spies for spies. The New York Daily News reports that a plan is in the works to send the 10 Russian spies arrested last week home in exchange for imprisoned spies who did work for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who says the Cold War is over? The FBI said Monday that it had arrested 10 people for allegedly spying for Russia in the U.S., the Associated Press reported. The new service said the goal was to penetrate U.S. government policy making circles. The Associated Press reported that court papers show…
Could this be a sign of more things to come involving cooperation between the U.S. and Russia? Mark Franchetti Sunday Times MOSCOW — FIVE years after the high-profile murder in Moscow of American magazine editor Paul Klebnikov, Russian authorities have agreed to co-operate with US investigators and grant the FBI access to the investigation. The…
In the bustling nation’s capital, Joseph Persichini Jr., head of the FBI’s Washington field office, talks about espionage, the inauguration, the anthrax caper and how he felt after the anthrax suspect committed suicide.
