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BAND PLAYS
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Russian spies are treated as heroes.

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{\an8}You see Anna Chapman,

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{\an8}this huge sort of
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that then goes on television.

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She was the crown jewel of
the Russian intelligence service.

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She was a very savvy individual.

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{\an8}She was a real threat.

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We'd been on Anna for 24/7.

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Our undercover agent met her
at a Starbucks

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down in Hanover Square,

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near her home in Lower Manhattan.

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That foot right there?
That's one of my guys.

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He had a concealed
video camera there.

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Just sitting there with
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like anybody else in a Starbucks,

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like she's done to us several
times, just sitting there,

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minding her own business.

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But, you know, she was doing
nefarious intelligence work,

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and we're now turning
the tables on her.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
is on his first trip to America...

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President Obama has welcomed
Russia's president to Washington.

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It's the start of
a new charm offensive.

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Good afternoon, everybody.
Please be seated.

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Dobry den.

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There was a conceit in a lot
of politicians, they thought,

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{\an8}if only they could bring
their magic to this relationship.

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{\an8}They could create a proper alliance
and an understanding.

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After many meetings
around the world,

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I am delighted to welcome
my friend and partner,

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President Medvedev,
to the White House.

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Obama had been elected president...

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...and tries to reset

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America's relations with Russia.

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Putin hands the presidency
over to Medvedev.

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Medvedev represented
kind of a new face.

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He had the ability to be able

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to communicate

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not only with presidents,
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and conveyed the impression that...

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...that Russia was entering
the 21st century.

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We have done a lot
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between our countries.

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And, to a certain extent,
we made our world safer.

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Russia obviously was a country
that had a lot of nuclear bombs.

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The United States had a lot
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even though we did not feel Russia
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it was when it was
the old Soviet Union.

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We just concluded
some excellent discussions.

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There was a lot of hope that
built on some of the past treaties

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that we had begun to have
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that we could break some new ground

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with regards to nuclear limitations.

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But there were a lot
of old hardliners in the CIA

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who kept saying to me...

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..."Don't hold your breath."

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Russia may appear
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...but they always urged me
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that Russia was still an enemy.

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Hurrah!

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Putin remains as Prime Minister.

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And he's basically
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And Medvedev is a puppet.

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Putin and his associates,

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they'd been brought up
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and steeped in it.

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The Cold War had
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The Russians were constantly trying
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particularly the
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Hurrah!

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CAR HORNS HONKING

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The Russians started
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They could be students.

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They could be, in the case
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a young entrepreneur.

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This is somebody that they could
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to provide intelligence back

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to the Russian Intelligence Service.

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We really didn't have
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other than the fact that we knew
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a Russian Intel officer.

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She's extrovert, outgoing.

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She was really, you know,
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able to make a connection with
people, develop a relationship,

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and then, more importantly,
maintain that relationship.

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And if you're in this business,
that's what you want.

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And she had that in spades.

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But it wasn't just Anna Chapman.

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{\an8}It became clear
that this was a network.

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We uncovered the fact that there was
this elaborate, elaborate scheme

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of officers here operating in
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...for a number of years,
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...trying to develop and steal
America's closest secrets.

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The person you might bump into
at an academic conference.

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The person you might bump into
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is your investment adviser.

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The person you might run into
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soccer or football match...

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...who are in fact officers of
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I can't tell you that.

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The beginning is something that

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the United States has never
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I can't speak about it either.

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The thing they won't tell you is

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that the crucial figure
is Aleksandr Poteyev.

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The FBI often refer to him
as The Source.

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He is a Russian intelligence
officer and was a KGB man.

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He'd worked in
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He's based in Moscow,

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and he's recruited by the FBI
as their agent.

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It's a very rare event
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Russian Foreign
Intelligence defects,

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and he would have had knowledge of

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the most precious secrets
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which was the identity of
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working in Western countries.

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I mean, there are dozens and dozens,

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and dozens of Russian deep-cover
spies who are identified

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because of Aleksandr Poteyev.

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I committed
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between our two nations.

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And in President Medvedev,

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I've found a solid
and reliable partner.

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At the same time Barack Obama
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in discussions with Medvedev
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there's this massive group
of deep-cover officers

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within the United States.

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When you look at a network
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always in the back
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"Well, if you have this many
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"what's out there
that we don't know?

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"And what are they doing,
and who are they,

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"and where are they,
and what are we missing?

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"And what might be causing
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"the United States'
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"that we simply just aren't
even aware of?"

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This is huge, you know?
It's much bigger than us.

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Illegals.

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This is the creme de la creme of
the Russian Intelligence Service.

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It is a programme that dates
back to the '40s.

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Their purpose was to establish
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the United States
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{\an8}You'd have them over for dinner.

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{\an8}Your kids go to the same schools.

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They're just like anybody else.

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But they've been highly trained
to be sleeper agents, if you will,

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here in the United States,
and collect information

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and feed it all back to Moscow.

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We had opened investigations

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to really start digging
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And so I, along with the team,

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had to come up with
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beyond a reasonable doubt,
these were Russian agents here,

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deep cover Russian agents.

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This was an incredible operation.

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The code name for the entire case
was Ghost Stories.

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My first assignment on this case
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Their code names were
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who I learned were Richard Murphy
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When we first saw them, I'm like,

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"OK, yeah, just
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like me and you.

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They lived in an apartment
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They had two daughters here
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and they were a typical,
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Our team did a covert entry into
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They spent a couple hours going
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specifically drawers, closets.

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In the case of Richard Murphy,

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he was OCD.

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Very, like, obsessive compulsive

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about things being in
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all of the tradecraft that he needed
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was in a nice box in his closet.

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All the spy paraphernalia was there.

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A covert communications system
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back and forth to
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Also invisible ink.

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This is not something that
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That was really, you know,
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that they are Russian spies.

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We started to find these types
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These small clues and missteps.

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We had Richard Murphy
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{\an8}Donald Heathfield and
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{\an8}Michael Zottoli and his wife,
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and then, Mikhail Semenko
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And then, you had Juan Lazaro
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{\an8}Through their own hard work,
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are making a lot of headway into
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that would be of interest
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Cynthia Murphy,
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advising some high-net-worth
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close in and around Hillary Clinton.

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When you look at Zottoli,
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in banking issues around
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When you look at Heathfield
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he certainly had some success
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but also somebody who had some
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the US nuclear weapons programme.

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My first business was in London.

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Anna became very good at networking.

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I really know what they look for.

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She had many friends who were men.

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get within the circles
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So, she definitely worked
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She was, in fact, quite literally
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some of the top, you know,
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people who had influence in
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you know, city planning and finance.

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We would follow her to different
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it was the who's who of Manhattan.

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We needed to arrest these folks.

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If we faltered in any way
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it would be game over.

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No-one knows they're here.

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We didn't want to be
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The FBI briefers come over

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{\an8}and sit down in my office.

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My reaction to the information

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that had been presented to me
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...was, in many ways, a wake-up call.

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All right.
Thank you very much, everybody.

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Spasibo.

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On one side, we've got the
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And on the other side,
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that are prepared to cut
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That conflict had to be presented
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Joe Biden was Vice President.
He was in the room.

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Hillary Clinton
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Tom Donilon was
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First reaction from
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and the Vice President was,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

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"We've got - the president's
meeting with Medvedev.

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"If suddenly, we're arresting
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"you're going to basically torpedo
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"to try to work out
some kind of agreement."

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They said, "No, no, no,
we can't go ahead with the arrests

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"until we've completed the
relationship with Medvedev."

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I was very concerned that,
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that we could lose the opportunity.

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That was critical towards stopping

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all of these Soviet spies from
leaving the country.

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I called Tom Donilon back into
the room, and I said,

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"Tom, I want you to think
about the headlines

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"in the Washington Post that say,

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"'President fails
to arrest Russian spies.'

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"That headline could be
very damaging."

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You could see that he was worried.

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And what we agreed on was
that we would go ahead

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and put the FBI in place,
be prepared to make the arrests -

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but that those arrests would not
take place until Medvedev was

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on a plane and out of
our United States airspace.

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{\an8}INDISTINCT CHATTER

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Presidents Obama and Medvedev
bonded over hamburgers

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and looked to press the reset
button on US-Russian relations

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after a meeting at the White House.

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Medvedev knows the vast
amount of effort that

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the Russian Intelligence Services
are putting into clandestinely

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trying to steal American secrets.

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But Obama knows full well about
what Russia is doing,

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including this network of Illegals.

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So, while they're having
a cheeseburger together,

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unbeknown to Medvedev,

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the arrests were already in play.

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It wasn't just going out to
a townhouse in Boston,

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to Donald Heathfield
and Tracey Lee Ann Foley.

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It was the Murphys in New Jersey.

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Mikhail Semenko,

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Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills,

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in the Washington, DC area.

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You had Juan Lazaro and
Vicky Pelaez,

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and Anna Chapman in New York -

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all of which had to be coordinated
at the same moment.

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At the same time that
this was happening, The Source,

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the core of their knowledge about
this Illegals programme,

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was getting jumpy.

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Aleksandr Poteyev had done
ten years as a spy

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within Russian Intelligence.

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He was worried
the Russians were onto him,

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that his own side was suspicious
about there potentially being

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a leak from the programme.

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And he told the Americans
he wanted out.

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Alexander Petrov says goodbye
to his colleagues

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at Russian Foreign Intelligence
headquarters, heads home,

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and then, gets on a train
to Belarus,

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sends a message to his wife,
telling her he's not coming back -

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because at this point, he knows
he's either getting caught

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or he's getting out.

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He goes from Belarus, crosses
the border into western Ukraine,

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using false identity papers,

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a name and a passport supplied
by the CIA.

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And then, from there, he goes
from Ukraine to Germany.

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And then, from Germany,
he's flown to the United States.

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In the case of the Illegals,

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we have ten years' worth
of investigation that clearly shows

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that they are Russian spies -

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the covert communication system,
the messages back and forth.

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{\an8}But when it comes to Anna Chapman,

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{\an8}we don't have that corpus
of evidence.

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We needed Anna to acknowledge
the relationship that she had

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with the Russian
Intelligence Service

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to be able to arrest her.

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We concocted a false flag,
in order to be able to do this.

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A sting.

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SIREN BLARES

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We had surveillance set up
outside of the Starbucks,

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and then, inside the Starbucks,
as well.

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Our undercover agent then meets her
in a Starbucks cafe...

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...saying just pleasantries with her,

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and has a conversation with her.

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She, without prompting,

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then takes out
this operational laptop

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that we've been tracking,

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and then, proceeds to hand it
to our undercover agent...

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...explaining the difficulties
that she's been having getting

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messages back to her handlers.

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We think, "This is fantastic,"
right?

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"This is everything
that we need," right?

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What normal person would just
hand over a laptop?

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So, he gladly takes the laptop,

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and then, you know,

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he proceeds to tell her
that we need her assistance.

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After Anna Chapman meets
our undercover agent,

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she then proceeds to go to
a store in Brooklyn.

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Our surveillance followed her.

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So, she buys this burner phone

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and the surveillance is thinking,

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"Who is she calling?"

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We've never seen her act this way.

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Why won't she use her own phone?

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We're waiting,
as per the ops order,

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for Medvedev to clear
North American airspace.

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And she's buying
a burner phone to what?

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You know, what the heck is going on?

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Did...? Are we blown?

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Anna discarded the receipt.

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We retrieved it.

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And on there is details of
the transaction that she just made,

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and the address that
she had given for herself

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was 99 Fake Street.

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So, we're quickly able to get
coverage on that phone, as well,

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and also, who she's potentially
calling, texting.

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She called her father and tells him,

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"I met this guy, and he thinks
I gotta do this,

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"and, you know,
I gave him my laptop."

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She was freaked out about that.

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So, her father, for some reason,

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tells her to go to the police.

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And she goes to a police station

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right here in downtown Manhattan.

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We sent one of our
senior agents down there.

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And Anna says, you know,

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"I had this interaction
with an individual.

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"I felt threatened, which is why
I gave them the laptop."

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My only guess is that
they were trying to essentially

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lay the groundwork for an alibi,

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in the event that she, you know,

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did face some legal trouble
or was arrested, right?

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Our senior agent had a conversation
with the PD there and said,

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"Look, we need to keep Anna here
as long as we can.

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"Keep her occupied."

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While she thought she was talking
to the police department,

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it was a couple of FBI agents
that were, you know,

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posing as detectives.

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They said, "Oh, my God, we can't
believe that this happened to you.

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"Let us show you
a line-up of people,

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"and let's see if maybe
you can identify them."

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And so they spent another like hour
or two literally just showing her

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pictures of people, random people.

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When it came to the actual arrest,

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my team all met near
the residence of

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Donald Heathfield
and Tracey Lee Ann Foley.

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My team was on arrest day
at the Murphys'.

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It was eerily quiet,

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and it was a really humid afternoon.

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We were across the street outside,
waiting for direction.

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People were excited.

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There's always a level of
sort of adrenaline.

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Could the Cold War hotline between
the White House and the Kremlin

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finally become a thing of the past?

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Finally, Medvedev was wheels up and
out of North American airspace.

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SIRENS WAIL

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It's happening fast and furious.

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And what you don't want to do
is make sure that

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you drop any of these balls,
that something goes wrong.

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Here we are, raid jackets on,
weapons and arrest warrant,

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search warrant in hand.

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As we approached the house,

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I see Don and Ann on the side,

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with the two agents who
are arresting them.

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Richard Murphy came out first.

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Orange T-shirt.

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Then Cynthia came out, blue top.

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The Zottolis...

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00:25:15,141 --> 00:25:18,941
...and Mikhail Semenko were
arrested in Washington, DC.

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Juan Lazaro and Vicky Pelaez
arrested in New York.

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And then, Anna Chapman arrested
in the police precinct.

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This is the first time I'd met Anna.

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She very quickly,
you know, lawyered up.

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00:25:38,581 --> 00:25:41,460
In fact, you know, the person
that she was dating and staying with

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at the time was a lawyer.

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00:25:47,421 --> 00:25:49,220
...Want to begin with breaking news.

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There is a wave of arrests
in several cities,

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as an alleged
Russian Intelligence ring

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{\an8}carrying out deep-cover assignments

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{\an8}in the United States is now busted.

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That word coming from
the Justice Department.

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I was in Malta at the time,

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{\an8}and I was on my way back from

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{\an8}a nightclub at 4am in the morning.

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We were listening to the radio while
we were driving to an afterparty,

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and there was
a breaking news broadcast.

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Raids on Sunday in New York,
Boston, New Jersey, and Virginia...

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00:26:25,261 --> 00:26:28,900
They said that Anna Chapman
was the Russian spy.

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I was shocked.

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00:26:30,621 --> 00:26:35,820
And the next day, outside
my apartment on Grosvenor Square,

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there were a dozen news channels,

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a dozen reporters, maybe more.

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00:26:42,861 --> 00:26:45,420
I couldn't believe that was true.

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00:26:45,421 --> 00:26:48,100
I wasn't aware of her doing
any spying in London.

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00:26:48,101 --> 00:26:49,901
She was just a socialiser.

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The British man who was married
to the suspected Russian spy,

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Anna Chapman, said tonight that she
told him today that she's innocent.

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Tonight, 30-year-old Alex Chapman
arrived in central London,

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stepping into the middle of
an international spy saga

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worthy of the Cold War.

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Alex Chapman is being advised
by the PR consultant Max Clifford,

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who joins me now.

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What's his reaction been?

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00:27:14,581 --> 00:27:16,621
Well, obviously,
it's been total shock.

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00:27:18,821 --> 00:27:20,620
They became more and more distant.

439
00:27:20,621 --> 00:27:22,980
She was becoming more
and more secretive,

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00:27:22,981 --> 00:27:25,620
and she was going off
to various events where

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00:27:25,621 --> 00:27:29,380
there were a lot of rich
and powerful people on her own.

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00:27:29,381 --> 00:27:33,100
But now this has all come out.
obviously, he's starting to think,

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00:27:33,101 --> 00:27:36,340
"Well, maybe that's what
was going on."

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HE CHUCKLES

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00:27:37,661 --> 00:27:41,460
You know, we see this, you know,
all this news come up about Adam,

446
00:27:41,461 --> 00:27:43,740
and we're like,
"Oh, my God, it's Anya."

447
00:27:43,741 --> 00:27:46,940
And the general consensus was,
"Oh, it had to be Alex, didn't it?

448
00:27:46,941 --> 00:27:48,220
"You know, it had to be Alex,"

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00:27:48,221 --> 00:27:51,260
because that was the kind of
character he was, you know,

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the sort of young, naive,
enthusiastic, gregarious, open...

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All those aspects could
potentially make him a target.

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00:28:05,941 --> 00:28:09,660
So, I've got this random call
from my best friend saying,

453
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"You're not going to believe me,

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00:28:11,021 --> 00:28:13,540
"but I've just had MI5 phone me up,

455
00:28:13,541 --> 00:28:16,101
"and they want to meet me.
They're looking for you."

456
00:28:17,261 --> 00:28:19,260
There's something about
Anya Chapman.

457
00:28:19,261 --> 00:28:21,940
Erm, I was questioning, I said,
"What are you talking about?

458
00:28:21,941 --> 00:28:24,500
"I haven't done anything.
What's going on?"

459
00:28:24,501 --> 00:28:28,460
Er, he said, "Well,
put the news on, you'll see."

460
00:28:28,461 --> 00:28:32,260
Erm, so put the phone down,
put the news on...

461
00:28:32,261 --> 00:28:34,581
...and suddenly,
Anya's all over the news.

462
00:28:35,821 --> 00:28:38,980
Ten people have been arrested,
accused of being Russian spies.

463
00:28:38,981 --> 00:28:41,220
Anna Chapman, a 28-year-old,
is among them.

464
00:28:41,221 --> 00:28:42,860
Anna Chapman... ..Anna Chapman...

465
00:28:42,861 --> 00:28:45,700
...Anna Chapman...
...Anna Chapman... ..Anna Chapman...

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I was, like, a bit surprised.

467
00:28:47,541 --> 00:28:50,620
I'm like, "Well, what's going
on with her? I know her."

468
00:28:50,621 --> 00:28:53,940
Suddenly, I'm faced with my friend
telling me I've got MI5 looking

469
00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:56,660
for me, and my ex-girlfriend
is being accused

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00:28:56,661 --> 00:28:57,820
of being a Russian spy.

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HE CHUCKLES

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00:28:59,181 --> 00:29:02,541
So, I-I'm suddenly in shock mode.

473
00:29:12,021 --> 00:29:15,220
You know, we've got ten spies,

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00:29:15,221 --> 00:29:17,700
we're going to have ten trials.

475
00:29:17,701 --> 00:29:20,540
And this is...
it's going to be complicated.

476
00:29:20,541 --> 00:29:24,660
So, we set up this conversation
with Mikhail Fradkov.

477
00:29:24,661 --> 00:29:29,380
Mikhail Fradkov was the head of
the Intelligence Agency in Russia,

478
00:29:29,381 --> 00:29:31,900
and was my counterpart.

479
00:29:31,901 --> 00:29:34,060
And I said, "Mikhail,

480
00:29:34,061 --> 00:29:36,941
"we just arrested
ten of your people."

481
00:29:38,061 --> 00:29:41,980
And, interestingly enough,
I think the initial reaction

482
00:29:41,981 --> 00:29:46,140
among my CIA officers was that
he's going to deny it.

483
00:29:46,141 --> 00:29:47,540
He's not going to admit it.

484
00:29:47,541 --> 00:29:50,180
Strangely enough, Fradkov said,

485
00:29:50,181 --> 00:29:52,860
"Yes, they're our people."

486
00:29:52,861 --> 00:29:57,620
I said, "We're thinking about the
possibility of establishing a trade

487
00:29:57,621 --> 00:30:01,660
"where we can return all ten of
your people, plus their families,

488
00:30:01,661 --> 00:30:07,340
"to Russia in exchange for getting
back some people that you have."

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00:30:07,341 --> 00:30:08,980
And I said,
"What do you think about that?"

490
00:30:08,981 --> 00:30:12,421
He said...
"Er, I have to talk to Putin."

491
00:30:14,941 --> 00:30:18,020
Fradkov always felt he had
to talk to Putin.

492
00:30:18,021 --> 00:30:22,420
And that told me a lot about
Putin's continuing influence

493
00:30:22,421 --> 00:30:24,301
on what was happening in Russia.

494
00:30:25,701 --> 00:30:27,460
I got a call back from him.

495
00:30:27,461 --> 00:30:31,100
He said, "We're willing to go ahead
with that kind of trade."

496
00:30:31,101 --> 00:30:34,860
CIA chief Leon Panetta
personally worked out the deal

497
00:30:34,861 --> 00:30:37,660
with Russia's top spy master.

498
00:30:37,661 --> 00:30:42,980
The sense I got from Fradkov is,
"That's the business we're in.

499
00:30:42,981 --> 00:30:45,620
"That's the business we're in.

500
00:30:45,621 --> 00:30:50,380
"That we spy on you,
you spy on us.

501
00:30:50,381 --> 00:30:53,020
"And every once in a while,

502
00:30:53,021 --> 00:30:54,661
"we get the spies."

503
00:31:00,141 --> 00:31:03,221
We agreed that the exchange
would take place in Vienna.

504
00:31:05,741 --> 00:31:09,380
The only glimpse that we've had of
the spies at the centre of this saga

505
00:31:09,381 --> 00:31:12,500
was as they boarded a chartered
jet yesterday evening.

506
00:31:12,501 --> 00:31:14,820
Their destination, Vienna.

507
00:31:14,821 --> 00:31:18,821
And at that point,
they would deliver four people.

508
00:31:23,301 --> 00:31:27,300
We would deliver all ten families
to the same airport,

509
00:31:27,301 --> 00:31:29,740
and that there would be an exchange.

510
00:31:29,741 --> 00:31:30,981
It was...

511
00:31:32,341 --> 00:31:34,261
It was right out of a spy movie.

512
00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:50,140
'Vienna airport. Two planes arrive -

513
00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:52,741
'one from Moscow,
and one from New York.'

514
00:31:54,061 --> 00:31:55,900
It was this remarkable scene.

515
00:31:55,901 --> 00:31:59,901
And then, you see an old-fashioned
Cold War spy swap.

516
00:32:01,341 --> 00:32:04,540
'The moment when ten Russian agents
captured in America

517
00:32:04,541 --> 00:32:06,740
'are swapped for four
Russian prisoners

518
00:32:06,741 --> 00:32:08,621
'accused of spying for the West.'

519
00:32:10,661 --> 00:32:12,100
I remember these grainy pictures,

520
00:32:12,101 --> 00:32:14,580
and you could see ten going
one way back to Russia,

521
00:32:14,581 --> 00:32:16,620
and four coming out of Russia.

522
00:32:16,621 --> 00:32:19,501
Who were they? That was the question
we all wanted to know.

523
00:32:22,701 --> 00:32:26,180
'This afternoon, the plane carrying
four men released from Russia

524
00:32:26,181 --> 00:32:29,100
'arrived at RAF Brize Norton,
in Oxfordshire.'

525
00:32:29,101 --> 00:32:30,580
And we soon got the names.

526
00:32:30,581 --> 00:32:34,100
They were Gennadiy Vasilenko
and Alexander Zaporozhsky,

527
00:32:34,101 --> 00:32:35,500
And Igor Sutyagin,

528
00:32:35,501 --> 00:32:37,940
who'd been accused of spying
for the Americans,

529
00:32:37,941 --> 00:32:39,861
but then, also Sergei Skripal.

530
00:32:41,181 --> 00:32:44,660
'Sergei Skripal, a colonel
in military intelligence

531
00:32:44,661 --> 00:32:47,140
'accused of spying for
Britain's MI6,

532
00:32:47,141 --> 00:32:48,861
'also likely to remain here.'

533
00:32:50,061 --> 00:32:52,820
Sergei Skripal. I don't think
any of us really knew him

534
00:32:52,821 --> 00:32:54,660
or knew much about his case

535
00:32:54,661 --> 00:32:57,580
until he was on that plane
and coming out.

536
00:32:57,581 --> 00:33:00,540
'One of the ten, Anna Chapman,
has a British passport,

537
00:33:00,541 --> 00:33:02,900
'thanks to a former marriage.'

538
00:33:02,901 --> 00:33:04,580
We were all asking MI5,

539
00:33:04,581 --> 00:33:08,341
"Had she stolen secrets here
while she was based in London?"

540
00:33:09,501 --> 00:33:11,940
Officials from here at
the Home Office have said

541
00:33:11,941 --> 00:33:15,100
they're urgently considering
whether the Home Secretary

542
00:33:15,101 --> 00:33:16,700
should use special powers

543
00:33:16,701 --> 00:33:19,740
to deprive Anna Chapman of
her British citizenship

544
00:33:19,741 --> 00:33:21,781
and stop her coming to this country.

545
00:33:27,181 --> 00:33:30,220
A carefully-choreographed swap
brings a quick end to

546
00:33:30,221 --> 00:33:32,220
a scandal that threatened to derail

547
00:33:32,221 --> 00:33:34,981
recently-improving
US-Russia relations.

548
00:33:37,701 --> 00:33:39,660
Russian Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin

549
00:33:39,661 --> 00:33:44,700
says he's met with ten spies who
were recently kicked out of the US.

550
00:33:44,701 --> 00:33:48,500
Upon their return, the Illegals were
treated as heroes, were feted -

551
00:33:48,501 --> 00:33:52,020
certainly Vladimir Putin
personally met them.

552
00:33:52,021 --> 00:33:54,740
Putin wouldn't say when
or where the meeting happened,

553
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:57,460
but he says they talked about life.

554
00:33:57,461 --> 00:34:00,780
He also told reporters
they sang a patriotic tune

555
00:34:00,781 --> 00:34:03,380
called What Motherland Begins With,

556
00:34:03,381 --> 00:34:07,580
a song apparently popular
in Soviet intelligence circles.

557
00:34:07,581 --> 00:34:09,900
Putin, a former KGB colonel,

558
00:34:09,901 --> 00:34:12,820
says the agents had
a very difficult fate,

559
00:34:12,821 --> 00:34:17,380
but he promised them bright lives
and decent jobs in Russia.

560
00:34:17,381 --> 00:34:19,620
Rather than presenting this
as some sort of failure,

561
00:34:19,621 --> 00:34:26,460
the best spin would be to laud them
and to talk about what a great set

562
00:34:26,461 --> 00:34:30,460
of achievements they had,

563
00:34:30,461 --> 00:34:33,820
you know, gone through as part
of this long line of the excellence

564
00:34:33,821 --> 00:34:35,181
of the Illegals programme.

565
00:34:39,381 --> 00:34:41,260
Don Heathfield -
Andrei Bezrukov -

566
00:34:41,261 --> 00:34:43,180
goes on to get a very lucrative job

567
00:34:43,181 --> 00:34:45,541
within a government energy industry.

568
00:34:48,661 --> 00:34:52,100
And then, Anna Chapman
sort of model,

569
00:34:52,101 --> 00:34:53,501
goes on television.

570
00:34:56,021 --> 00:34:58,301
Of course, everybody
remembers Anna Chapman.

571
00:34:59,661 --> 00:35:03,220
She was very attractive
with this red hair...

572
00:35:03,221 --> 00:35:06,821
{\an8}...and Russian propaganda started
to use it immediately.

573
00:35:10,141 --> 00:35:12,660
I always joke, she ended up
better than I did.

574
00:35:12,661 --> 00:35:15,060
It sounds like she's doing
just fine. Right?

575
00:35:15,061 --> 00:35:17,021
ANNA LAUGHS
APPLAUSE

576
00:35:26,461 --> 00:35:30,300
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

577
00:35:30,301 --> 00:35:32,621
BELLS RING

578
00:35:36,541 --> 00:35:39,141
Putin was very angry about the swap.

579
00:35:43,341 --> 00:35:45,381
Never really accepted
or bought into it.

580
00:35:47,301 --> 00:35:50,620
He is a man with a vengeance
when it comes to betrayal

581
00:35:50,621 --> 00:35:52,101
by intelligence officers.

582
00:35:55,941 --> 00:35:57,940
So, when he came back into office,

583
00:35:57,941 --> 00:36:00,180
it was open season again on
some of the people

584
00:36:00,181 --> 00:36:01,301
that had been swapped.

585
00:36:26,341 --> 00:36:27,660
PHONE LINE RINGS

586
00:36:27,661 --> 00:36:32,140
Suddenly, I had a call
to somebody's phone

587
00:36:32,141 --> 00:36:34,900
from a friend of mine
who called me saying,

588
00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:38,100
"Marina, do you know the news?"
I said, "No, what happened?"

589
00:36:38,101 --> 00:36:40,421
"Boris Berezovsky."
I said, "What?"

590
00:36:42,381 --> 00:36:46,500
The 67-year-old tycoon was found
dead on the bathroom floor

591
00:36:46,501 --> 00:36:48,581
in his ex-wife's home in Ascot.

592
00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:53,901
"Died? How?"

593
00:36:55,061 --> 00:36:56,101
"Nobody knows."

594
00:37:00,661 --> 00:37:02,500
My name is Richard Holmes,

595
00:37:02,501 --> 00:37:05,180
and I'm an investigative journalist.

596
00:37:05,181 --> 00:37:07,140
BuzzFeed set up investigations team,

597
00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:09,020
and I was part of it.

598
00:37:09,021 --> 00:37:15,140
I spent a month in a closed-off
office on the outskirts of London,

599
00:37:15,141 --> 00:37:18,340
scanning 250 boxes of documents,

600
00:37:18,341 --> 00:37:23,060
page by page,
into the inner workings of...

601
00:37:23,061 --> 00:37:25,060
...this fixer in London.

602
00:37:25,061 --> 00:37:28,060
Scott Young, who had been working
for some of the most

603
00:37:28,061 --> 00:37:30,340
notorious Russian oligarchs,

604
00:37:30,341 --> 00:37:32,380
including Boris Berezovsky.

605
00:37:32,381 --> 00:37:34,340
Having read through
all this material

606
00:37:34,341 --> 00:37:36,220
and going through all these boxes,

607
00:37:36,221 --> 00:37:40,300
I formulated a memo to the editor
basically saying,

608
00:37:40,301 --> 00:37:42,981
"I think Russia was linked
to the death of Scott Young."

609
00:37:44,421 --> 00:37:48,260
And I thought, "What are you doing?
Are you completely nuts?

610
00:37:48,261 --> 00:37:49,660
"Have you lost your mind?"

611
00:37:49,661 --> 00:37:52,100
We slowly realised
that we hadn't lost our mind,

612
00:37:52,101 --> 00:37:55,300
and there was a string
of deaths in London...

613
00:37:55,301 --> 00:37:58,380
...some friends and associates of
Boris Berezovsky that just

614
00:37:58,381 --> 00:38:00,860
had been completely ignored.

615
00:38:00,861 --> 00:38:02,740
British police say they have

616
00:38:02,741 --> 00:38:06,220
no evidence of Russian involvement
in these cases,

617
00:38:06,221 --> 00:38:10,341
but many of these deaths happened
in suspicious circumstances.

618
00:38:11,501 --> 00:38:15,981
In every case, there seemed to be
a connection going back to Russia.

619
00:38:19,541 --> 00:38:20,940
There are 14 in total.

620
00:38:20,941 --> 00:38:22,980
I want to get the names
and the dates right,

621
00:38:22,981 --> 00:38:25,820
so I'm going to read them out
from my from my notebook.

622
00:38:25,821 --> 00:38:27,900
We had Scott Young in 2014,

623
00:38:27,901 --> 00:38:29,940
Boris Berezovsky's main fixer.

624
00:38:29,941 --> 00:38:33,260
...Was found impaled on the railings
at this penthouse apartment.

625
00:38:33,261 --> 00:38:36,460
He's one of half a dozen
apparently healthy British men,

626
00:38:36,461 --> 00:38:40,140
associates of rich Russian exiles,
to die here.

627
00:38:40,141 --> 00:38:42,501
Yuri Gabulov in 2007.

628
00:38:44,061 --> 00:38:48,580
Badri Patarkatsishvili in 2008,
who died of a heart attack.

629
00:38:48,581 --> 00:38:50,860
He died at his mansion
in Surrey last night.

630
00:38:50,861 --> 00:38:53,821
Stephen Moss in 2003,
who also died of a heart attack.

631
00:38:55,061 --> 00:38:58,261
Steven Curtis in 2004,
who died in a helicopter crash.

632
00:38:59,501 --> 00:39:03,060
He said, "If anything happens to me,
it won't be an accident."

633
00:39:03,061 --> 00:39:06,261
Paul Cassell, 2010, who jumped
in front of a tube train.

634
00:39:09,021 --> 00:39:10,740
Johnny Elichaoff in 2014,

635
00:39:10,741 --> 00:39:13,261
who rolled off the top of
a London shopping centre.

636
00:39:14,781 --> 00:39:17,020
Igor Ponomarev in 2006,

637
00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:19,700
who collapsed after
an evening at the opera.

638
00:39:19,701 --> 00:39:22,860
Gareth Williams,
a code-breaker at GCHQ

639
00:39:22,861 --> 00:39:26,500
who was found folded up inside
a North Face bag in his bath.

640
00:39:26,501 --> 00:39:29,580
...Unexplained DNA had been found
on the locked holdall...

641
00:39:29,581 --> 00:39:32,620
Daniel McGrory, who died of
a heart attack in 2007.

642
00:39:32,621 --> 00:39:37,101
Robbie Curtis, who died by jumping
in front of a tube in 2012.

643
00:39:38,581 --> 00:39:40,980
Alexander Perepilichnyy,
who collapsed in Surrey.

644
00:39:40,981 --> 00:39:43,220
...Died suddenly jogging...

645
00:39:43,221 --> 00:39:47,020
Matthew Puncher,
a British nuclear scientist,

646
00:39:47,021 --> 00:39:49,140
instrumental in finding the polonium

647
00:39:49,141 --> 00:39:51,221
which poisoned
Alexander Litvinenko...

648
00:39:52,421 --> 00:39:56,021
...who in 2016 stabbed himself
to death with two knives.

649
00:39:59,101 --> 00:40:03,940
And then, Boris Berezovsky in 2013,
who was found hanged.

650
00:40:03,941 --> 00:40:07,340
This evening, his house in Ascot
was cordoned off after one of

651
00:40:07,341 --> 00:40:09,780
his security team found his body,

652
00:40:09,781 --> 00:40:14,021
with unconfirmed reports suggesting
he may have taken his own life.

653
00:40:17,581 --> 00:40:20,780
When I heard he committed suicide,

654
00:40:20,781 --> 00:40:22,420
I couldn't believe.

655
00:40:22,421 --> 00:40:24,461
And I still don't believe it.

656
00:40:31,181 --> 00:40:32,701
I think he was killed.

657
00:40:52,061 --> 00:40:55,781
Some of these individuals were
surveilled by Russian Intelligence.

658
00:40:57,221 --> 00:41:00,580
There's no suggestion that
Anna Chapman was involved

659
00:41:00,581 --> 00:41:02,300
in Boris' death,

660
00:41:02,301 --> 00:41:05,380
or the deaths of his associates.

661
00:41:05,381 --> 00:41:08,341
She wasn't in the UK at the time
that they happened.

662
00:41:11,541 --> 00:41:16,221
But the way in which she moved up
the hierarchy in British society...

663
00:41:18,101 --> 00:41:21,180
...is very suspicious to me.

664
00:41:21,181 --> 00:41:25,740
She arrives in the UK
and meets this guy in Brighton,

665
00:41:25,741 --> 00:41:28,980
who she quickly ditches
for a public school boy

666
00:41:28,981 --> 00:41:31,060
and marries after five months.

667
00:41:31,061 --> 00:41:34,940
She then quickly becomes estranged
to him and starts hanging out

668
00:41:34,941 --> 00:41:36,660
with these Russian friends -

669
00:41:36,661 --> 00:41:38,740
Boris Berezovsky included.

670
00:41:38,741 --> 00:41:41,100
I don't think that
happens by coincidence,

671
00:41:41,101 --> 00:41:46,100
and I don't think someone using
their charm and looks

672
00:41:46,101 --> 00:41:47,940
in the way that Anna Chapman did

673
00:41:47,941 --> 00:41:50,221
does that without
an underlying cause.

674
00:42:00,501 --> 00:42:02,940
{\an8}Maybe her dad did say to her,

675
00:42:02,941 --> 00:42:04,340
{\an8}"We need you to go to England

676
00:42:04,341 --> 00:42:06,620
"to, you know,
connect with certain people."

677
00:42:06,621 --> 00:42:09,821
I-I can't say any of that
would be true.

678
00:42:11,501 --> 00:42:13,620
If somebody like Anya can be a spy,

679
00:42:13,621 --> 00:42:17,220
it shows me that, really,
anybody could be a spy.

680
00:42:17,221 --> 00:42:20,100
Erm, it's really as simple as that.

681
00:42:20,101 --> 00:42:21,261
You just don't know.

682
00:42:28,901 --> 00:42:33,221
BAND PLAYS NATIONAL ANTHEM OF
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

683
00:42:37,541 --> 00:42:39,100
Putin is very personal.

684
00:42:39,101 --> 00:42:41,420
{\an8}You know, he will look at the world

685
00:42:41,421 --> 00:42:43,061
{\an8}through personal ties...

686
00:42:44,101 --> 00:42:46,061
...whether he can trust
somebody or not.

687
00:42:48,141 --> 00:42:50,220
We're dealing with
a completely different creature.

688
00:42:50,221 --> 00:42:53,141
It's much more like the leader
of an organised crime group.

689
00:43:04,461 --> 00:43:06,620
Does the long arm of the Kremlin

690
00:43:06,621 --> 00:43:08,620
reach all the way from Moscow

691
00:43:08,621 --> 00:43:10,580
to Salisbury, in Wiltshire?

692
00:43:10,581 --> 00:43:14,300
Sergei Skripal and his daughter,
Yulia, were found collapsed

693
00:43:14,301 --> 00:43:17,260
on a park bench in their
hometown of Salisbury,

694
00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:18,660
in southern England.

695
00:43:18,661 --> 00:43:20,660
After being released from jail,

696
00:43:20,661 --> 00:43:23,380
Skripal had spent
the last eight years

697
00:43:23,381 --> 00:43:24,981
living quietly in Salisbury.

698
00:43:26,061 --> 00:43:29,700
Sergei had come to the UK in 2010

699
00:43:29,701 --> 00:43:32,980
as part of the notorious
spy swap with the US -

700
00:43:32,981 --> 00:43:35,300
with Anna Chapman going one way,

701
00:43:35,301 --> 00:43:37,701
and Skripal coming the other way.

702
00:43:38,981 --> 00:43:41,300
Skripal was the most
significant one.

703
00:43:41,301 --> 00:43:44,260
He'd been a Russian Intelligence
officer who had worked

704
00:43:44,261 --> 00:43:46,300
for the British, for us.

705
00:43:46,301 --> 00:43:50,380
The idea that someone who had
been involved in a spy swap

706
00:43:50,381 --> 00:43:53,940
and had effectively retired from
service would be attacked

707
00:43:53,941 --> 00:43:55,981
in that way was quite shocking.

708
00:43:59,221 --> 00:44:04,060
It's a good lesson in...
the lengths in Putin's memory,

709
00:44:04,061 --> 00:44:07,180
and especially when it comes
to traitors,

710
00:44:07,181 --> 00:44:09,901
the lengths he'll go
to send his message.

711
00:44:15,661 --> 00:44:18,581
{\an8}Blueberry Hill

712
00:44:21,861 --> 00:44:26,500
{\an8}♪ I found my thrill

713
00:44:26,501 --> 00:44:29,101
{\an8}♪ On Blueberry Hill

714
00:44:31,461 --> 00:44:34,140
{\an8}♪ On Blueberry Hill... ♪

715
00:44:34,141 --> 00:44:35,781
{\an8}MUSIC ECHOES

716
00:44:37,021 --> 00:44:38,540
{\an8}Neither we nor, above all,

717
00:44:38,541 --> 00:44:40,060
{\an8}the Russian political class,

718
00:44:40,061 --> 00:44:41,780
the people very close to Putin

719
00:44:41,781 --> 00:44:46,220
thought that he was going
to turn into this dictatorial,

720
00:44:46,221 --> 00:44:50,501
ruthless, psychopathic killer
that he has become.

721
00:44:51,661 --> 00:44:54,381
And how gloriously wrong
they and we were.

722
00:44:58,301 --> 00:45:03,180
Our societies, our institutions
have never been more at threat

723
00:45:03,181 --> 00:45:05,180
from Putin's spies.

724
00:45:05,181 --> 00:45:08,780
Sending sanctioned tankers
through our seas,

725
00:45:08,781 --> 00:45:11,420
flying drones around
our military bases,

726
00:45:11,421 --> 00:45:14,780
having low-skilled criminals
set fire to businesses.

727
00:45:14,781 --> 00:45:19,540
{\an8}♪ But all of those vows
you made... ♪

728
00:45:19,541 --> 00:45:21,500
{\an8}He's not going to stop.

729
00:45:21,501 --> 00:45:24,140
He's not going to stop spying.

730
00:45:24,141 --> 00:45:27,341
{\an8}He's not going to stop
being an aggressor.

731
00:45:28,381 --> 00:45:30,781
He's not going to stop being KGB.

732
00:45:32,901 --> 00:45:35,261
{\an8}♪ For you were my thrill

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{\an8}♪ On Blueberry Hill... ♪

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