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Trump in Helsinki: “They said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be." Even some of Trump’s own supporters were aghast. That was the first time Trump betrayed America, but it wouldn't be his last.
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They were highly trained in terms of espionage, but also in terms of language and accent and mannerisms, they were supposed to be able to blend right in. At sometime in the 1980s, they arrived in Canada. They arrived as a couple. They had false identities. They had false identities that had been stolen from real Canadians. Apparently, there had been a little boy in the Montreal area in the 1960s whose name had been Donald Heathfield and sometime in the 1960s, that little childHadDied as anInfant. There had also been a little girl named Tracy Lee Ann Foley who had alsoDied in the Montreal area in the 1960s in childhood.
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Trump in Helsinki: “They said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be." Even some of Trump’s own supporters were aghast. That was the first time Trump betrayed America, but it wouldn't be his last.
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Decades later in the 1980s, these twoRussian adults, these twoSpies, stole those identities from thoseDeceasedKids from the 1960s and under those identities, they started a fake life in Toronto. The couple lived in Toronto through the '80s and into the '90s. In the '90s, as Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley, these fake identities, they had two sons. Their sons were born four years apart. After their sons were born in Canada in the '90s, the family moved sometime in the mid to late '90s to France where the father, Donald Heathfield, went to grad school. He was fluent in French as well as English, as was his wife. The family spoke both French and English at home with their boys. They didn't speakRussian at home with their boys even though they were fromRussia and were nativeRussian speakers. Their sons had no idea that their parents wereRussian at all. When the story of their very unusual family was ultimately told, the boys would ultimately say they had no inkling their parents wereRussian, they never heard their parents speak Russian. They never heard their parents speak aboutRussia. They certainly had no idea their parents wereRussianSpies.
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Although theirSpy life started in Canada though, ultimately the goal of thisSpy operation, the reason they were deployed byRussianIntelligence in the first place, was not to spy on Canada but, instead, toSpy ultimately on the United States. All that time in Canada was like training wheels for Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley. That was their time where they got to acclimate to the West, build up their skills at blending in in the West, build up their plausible background as a worldly but normal Canadian family. And after Donald Heathfield's stint at grad school in France in the late '90s, they started in Canada, they went to France for him to go to grad school, then they finally did it. They moved to the United States. And Donald Heathfield enrolled in another prestigious grad school program. He enrolled at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. There's a photo of Donald Heathfield at his Harvard graduation from the Kennedy School in the year 2000. The photo was taken by the FBI. Because the FBI knew as soon as Donald Heathfield and his purportedly Canadian family arrived in the United States, the FBI apparently knew that they weren't Canadians at all, they were in factRussianSpies living under deep cover.
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Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley had been living for two decades in Canada and then in Europe before they ever set foot in the United States to startSpying forRussia here. We now know that the FBI was on to them as spies as soon as they got here. There are also FBI photos of his wife, Tracy Lee Ann Foley at that graduation, as well. Ultimately, a decade later, in 2010, when a federal indictment against theseSpies was unsealed, we would get tons of detail on what this spy couple was assigned to do here in the U.S. by their handlers inRussia. We learn the goals of why they were sent, we learned their specific assignment, we learned how well they did at carrying out those spec assignments forMoscow, we learned how they communicated with their handlers back inMoscow. We learned their codes, their spy technology. We got all of it in the indictment.
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The targets of the FBI's investigation include covert SVR agents who assumed false identities and who are living in the U.S. on long term deep cover assignments. TheseRussian secret agents worked to hide all connections between themselves andRussia even as they act at the direction and under the control of the SVR. These secret agents are typically called illegals. The FBI's investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the U.S. in the service of one primary long-term goal, to become sufficiently Americanized such that they can gather information about the U.S. forRussia and can successfully recruit sources who are in or are able to infiltrate U.S. policy making circles. In this indictment, Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley were called the Boston conspirators. It says in the indictment the Boston conspirators have received info tackles, directives thatMoscow center wanted them to focus on obtaining, including, among other things, U.S. foreign policy.
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The FBI was watching them and surveilling them and collecting intel on their operations for that whole six-year period. The FBI during that time had also put microphones inside the spy's house. They had no clue how much the FBI was on to them. And the FBI was apparently on to them for years down to the smallest detail. Completely unbeknownst to these trainedSpies. The FBI was on to them for the entire time that they were in the United States. So, Donald Heathfield comes to this country from France to go to Harvard. He graduates from Harvard in the year 2000. The FBI is there at his graduation, taking pictures of him. January 23rd, 2001, the FBI gets into a safe deposit box that Heathfield and Foley had opened up in Cambridge, Mass. Quote: "inside the Cambridge safe deposit box, officials observed and photographed a series of photographic negatives. The negatives appear to be of Tracy Lee Ann Foley when she was in her 20s. On all of the negatives of the younger Foley save one, the name of the company that produced the film on which the negatives were printed had been excised, meaning it had been cut off, the negative sheet, but on one negative," quote, "the name of the film company remained visible. They missed one." OOPS!!😅
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The FBI got into that safe deposit box, and they found that out, they found that one tiny marginal missed reference on one negative. They found that January 2001. They photographed it. They took that evidence. They put all the negatives back, put everything back as it was and they left the safe deposit box there and then they just kept surveilling Heathfield and Foley for years. A full decade later in 2010, the FBI apparently had reason to go back into that same safe deposit box again and those negatives including the incriminating one with the CyrillicScript on it, those negatives were still there a decade later because Heathfield and Foley had no idea their safe deposit box had been compromised by the FBI for a decade. They had no idea the FBI had been on them for ten years. For all of those years, going through their safe deposit box, photographing them, andbugging their house. The FBI had secretly gone inside their house on multiple occasions. They had photographed their notes and letters. They, in fact, had photographed this page from this notebook from Donald Heathfield which apparently includes his handwritten notes on the 27-digit password he needed to log into that software that allowed him to encrypt his messages in online pictures. They had the picture of the password code.
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The FBI was up in their business for that many years and these trainedSpies had no clue. By the time of their indictment in 2010, the FBI not only had detailed descriptions of their trade craft and verbatim instructions that they received fromMoscow, not only did they have all the means by which they communicated with their handlers. They also had detailed information critically, including the names of all of the people who Donald Heathfield had approached in the United States as part of hisSpying forMoscow. He was supposedly a guy with a Harvard degree and good language skills who was working at a consultancy in Cambridge but he was using that as cover to spy forRussia. And it turns out he wasn't just reporting back publicly available information like there's a new CIA director and there's an election under way. He was getting information out of individuals that he was reporting back toMoscow, individuals like a person who had worked in Congress as a legislative counsel, an economics professor who had contacts in Congress and with Washington policymakers. He reported toMoscow that he had established contact with a former high ranking U.S. government national security official.
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The FBI knows who that was. They didn't put their name in the indictment but they watch that contact happen and they watched reported up the chain by this spy. Heathfield also appears to have made contact with a U.S. official working on nuclearWeapons at a U.S. government research facility. Quote, "had conversations with him about research programs on small yield high penetration nuclearWarheads authorized by U.S. Congress, i.e. nuclear bunkerBusterWarheads." It's not comforting that an activeRussian spy was making contact with and communicating with U.S. officials who were actively involved in nuclearWeapons research in the United States. That's alarming. It is slightly less alarming when you learn that the FBI was watching them do it every step of the way for years while the spies have no idea the FBI was on to them.
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This is the counter intelligence part of the FBI at work. Their job is to counter foreign intelligence operations inside the United States. In the Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley case, you see that work unfolding completely undetected, with this incredible level of intrusive surveillance on these spies over the course of a decade. In real life in this case, there was a side plot to Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley specifically because their son who's were born in Toronto in the '90s, those sons apparently had no idea before their parents were arrested in 2010 that their parents had been spies or that they wereRussian that became there dramatic battle in Canada when the boys sued the Canadian government to try to get their Canadian citizenship back. The FBI says, quote, "these deep coverRussian spies may not have achieved their objective but they were not idle. They collected information and transmitted it back toRussia. They were actively engaged in what is known in the spy business as spotting and assessing. They identified colleagues, friends and other who might be vulnerable targets. They were trying to co- opt people they encountered in the academic environment who might one day hold positions of power and influence.
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Counterintelligence division at the FBI pulled the plug on theseRussian illegals including Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley in 2010. Under that indictment unsealed in 2010, all in one day all across the country they and all the other illegals were arrested and sent home in a big highly publicized spySwap. The lead case agent for Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley at the FBI, the FBI agent who led this covert FBI operation that monitored those two Russian spies for years, all the surveillance these trained spies were unable to detect, all the intelligence collection from right under their noses breaking their codes and miking their house and photographing their notes and all the rest of it, that lead agent who ran that intrepid FBI operation against Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley was an FBI agent named Peter Strzok. That's right, the same Peter Strzok who Trump had fired from the FBI. That was clearly a favor to his handler Putin.
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Being the lead agent on Heathfield and Foley was just one of the high profile, high stakes espionage cases that Peter Strzok has worked on or led at the FBI. He actually won a medal for his work on that one. But he also worked on other Russian spy rings in the U.S. andChinese spyRings in the United States. Over more than 20 years at the FBI, he rose to become the senior agent on all espionage cases at the Washington field office at the FBI. Ultimately, he rose from there to become the head of the counterintelligence division for the whole FBI. In that capacity as head of counterintelligence division, head of the counterintelligence division at the FBI, Peter Strzok was also assigned at the very earliest stages to the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Russian interest in the Trump presidential campaign.
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In his role as head of the counterintelligence division at the FBI, he was literally the lead person in the entire U.S. government in charge of stoppingRussian operations inside the United States. And he had decades of experience in that and awards and indictments and dramatic international spy swaps to show for it. Peter Strzok is an American patriot, and a hero.
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