FBI Busts Cold War-Style Russian Spy Ring in New York City

Homeland Security Today: In a scene right out of the Cold War-era-based FX Network TV series, "The Americans," the FBI arrested a Russian man in connection with a Cold War-style spy ring attempting to recruit spies and gather intelligence in New York City.

Evgeny “Zhenya" Buryakov allegedly posed as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank while working under “non-official cover”—entering and remaining in the US as a private citizen—as an agent of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, known as the “SVR.”

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