Event Details
April 01, 2010
Description
CIA receives a message from mole Alexander Poteyev regarding Russian espionage.
Participants (2)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Poteyev | person | 22 | View Entity |
| CIA | person | 2 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document is a page from a book or report (Chapter 18: The Unheeded Warning) marked as House Oversight evidence. It details the history of Alexander Poteyev, a high-level SVR colonel recruited by the CIA in the 1990s who provided warnings in 2010 about Russian espionage. The text explains the SVR's strategy of using 'illegal' sleeper agents in the US to bypass FBI surveillance of diplomatic staff and service moles within US intelligence agencies.
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