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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Johns Hopkins graduate Victor Ferreira was unmasked as GRU operative Sergey Cherkasov, according to a federal indictment and Western security officials
2023-04-01
[WAPO] Like anyone who gets into his dream college, Victor Muller Ferreira
...full birth identity Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, 37...
was ecstatic when he was admitted to Johns Hopkins University’s graduate school in Washington in 2018.

"Today we made the future — we managed to get in one of the top schools in the world," he wrote in an email to those who had helped him gain entry to the elite master’s program in international relations. "This is the victory that belongs to all of us man — to the entire team. Today we f---ing drink!!!"

The achievement was even sweeter for Ferreira because he was not the striving student from Brazil he had portrayed on his Johns Hopkins application, but a Russian intelligence operative originally from Kaliningrad, according to a series of international investigations as well as an indictment the Justice Department filed in federal court Friday.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  E mailing about dead drops? Perhaps GEN Turgedson was right after all.
Posted by: Cesare   2023-04-01 08:58  

#2  
Posted by: badanov   2023-04-01 05:56  

#1  By the way, the 10 the FBI arrested and which were the inspiration for "The Americans" tv show were not suddenly swooped up. They had been watched for years.

I gave up on the Washington Post years ago but a good friend sent me this. The Russians never give up.

Bellingcat Investigation Team - The Brazilian Candidate: The Studious Cover Identity of an Alleged Russian Spy
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-01 02:19  

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