Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), the Israeli Defence Force unit in charge upon collecting information in cooperation with the Mossad

Intelligence historian Boris Volodarsky on the fate of a family of Russian spies]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 18, 2010. The Russians have asked the Directorate of Civil Aviation authority in Lebanon to divert the routes of planes in a specific area over the international waters where they are planning to conduct the exercise, this (disruption would have been) for three days but we refused because it is against our interests. Fitzgerald, Mary (February 4, 2011). "Senior Russian official faces expulsion". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012 . Retrieved February 7, 2011. On July 13, 2010, Russian intelligence sources were quoted as saying that the deported Russian agents would undergo a rigorous series of tests, including a lie detector, to establish whether any of them acted as a double agent. [138] in Russian). Rosbalt.ru. July 13, 2010. Archived from the original on July 16, 2010 . Retrieved July 16, 2010.She was Senior Responsible Officer for the primary care component of the Long Term Plan and was involved in the leadership of the health inequalities, prevention and personalisation elements.

Chosen from the exclusive ranks of Directorate S, the illegals were trained to be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of living in a totally alien environment under the deepest of covers for up to 20+ years whilst performing politically controversial and/or potentially fatal missions. The Russian agents were tasked by "Moscow centre" to report about U.S. policy in Central America, U.S. interpretation of Russian foreign policy, problems with U.S. military policy, and "United States policy with regard to the use of the Internet by terrorists". [13] Alexander Sypachev (Russian: Александр Сыпачев) was a colonel in the Russian intelligence service who was arrested after delivering a report to a secret location in 2002. He was sentenced to eight years for spying for the CIA. He was reported to have been considered for a swap [128] but was not among the four Russians released.Staff. "Russian spy suspect missing in Cyprus, say police", BBC News, June 30, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2010.

a b c d e f g h i j k "The Russian Spy Ring of 2010, The Use of Ciphers and Radio Messages". The NSRIC. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015 . Retrieved January 31, 2015. It's Enough to Make a Redhead Blue: Russian Spy Upset Over Being Bounced by Britain". Fox News. Associated Press. July 21, 2010 . Retrieved July 24, 2010.On July 9, all ten suspects were deported. A government-chartered jet from Vision Airlines left New York's LaGuardia Airport and flew to Vienna International Airport via Bangor, Maine for refueling and then for the swap around midday of July 9 (local time). Returning from Vienna were the four Russian prisoners—Sutyagin, Zaporozhsky, Skripal, and Vasilenko. [115] The aircraft landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England, to drop two of the exchanged Russian nationals and proceeded to Washington Dulles International Airport on the afternoon of July 9. The Russian government Yakovlev Yak-42 jet returned to Moscow's Domodedovo airport where, after landing, the ten spies were kept away from local and international press. [116] A court verdict read in Moscow on June 27, 2011, identified "Metsos" as Pavel Kapustin ( Павел Капустин), a Russian espionage professional, who was exfiltrated upon being released on bail in Cyprus. [8] Alexey Karetnikov [ edit ] Defector Sergei Tretyakov died in the United States. He was suspected of handing over 11 Russian spies]. NEWSru, July 9, 2010. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal in early August 2010, the real Juan Lazaro died of respiratory failure in 1947 in Uruguay at age 3, with Vasenkov having presumably used the dead toddler's birth certificate to build a persona. [54] According to a file kept by the Peruvian Interior Ministry that The Wall Street Journal cited, Vasenkov flew on March 13, 1976, from Madrid to Lima on a Uruguayan passport in the name of Juan Jose Lazaro Fuentes. He bore a letter on a Spanish tobacco company's stationery that said they had hired him for a market survey in Peru. Two years later, he submitted copies of the passport and a 1943 Uruguayan birth certificate with a letter asking Peru's military dictator Francisco Morales Bermúdez (the country was then run by a US-friendly junta) for Peruvian citizenship, which Peru granted in 1979. [54]