Foreign Intelligence Service: Russian Spies

Attorney Michael Dept: Ten of the suspects were arrested Monday and the 11th, Christopher Metsos, who claims to be a Canadian citizen, was arrested Tuesday at an airport in Cyprus while trying to fly to Budapest, according to CTV. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz has called the arrests just "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian acronym SVR and the arrests in the U.S. of 11 alleged Russian spies – including four who purported to be Canadians -- threaten to derail attempts to mend relations between the two former superpowers. All of the accused were allegedly deep under cover, purporting to lead normal family lives in the U.S. northeast while also gathering and transmitting intelligence about U.S. foreign relations back to Moscow. As reported in the news.

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