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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jane Bradley |Michael Schwirtz
Investigadores sospechan que agentes de la KGB, que trabajaron en Brasil al final de la Unión Soviética, presentaron actas de nacimiento de recién nacidos ficticios para que una futura generación de espías las reclamara algún día.
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1 month ago | 
infomoney.com.br | Jane Bradley
À medida que os agentes da polícia federal desvendavam uma operação de espionagem do Kremlin no Brasil, eles se depararam com um mistério: como tantos espiões russos infiltrados conseguiram obter certidões de nascimento brasileiras aparentemente autênticas? A polícia esperava descobrir que os russos haviam forjado os documentos ou subornado funcionários municipais para criá-los e inseri-los no registro como se fossem da década de 1980 e 1990.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Jane Bradley |Michael Schwirtz |Christina Thornell |Laura Salaberry
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case. Source link
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jane Bradley |Michael Schwirtz
A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility. As federal police agents unraveled a Kremlin spying operation in Brazil, they confronted a mystery: How had so many deep-cover Russian spies managed to obtain seemingly authentic Brazilian birth certificates?
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1 month ago | 
estadao.com.br | Michael Schwirtz |Jane Bradley
Artem Shmyrev enganou a todos. O agente da inteligência russa parecia ter criado o disfarce perfeito: comandava uma bem-sucedida empresa de impressão 3D e morava em um apartamento de luxo no Rio de Janeiro, junto com a namorada brasileira e um gato felpudo, de pelagem laranja e branca, da raça Maine Coon. Mas, principalmente, ele tinha uma certidão de nascimento e um passaporte autênticos, que legitimavam seu nome falso: Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, um cidadão brasileiro de 34 anos.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Michael Schwirtz |Jane Bradley
15 hours agoHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem struggles to define habeas corpus at Senate hearing"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Noem said. “That’s incorrect,” a Democratic senator responded. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem mangled a response to a question about habeas corpus at a Senate hearing Tuesday, …14 hours agoKristi Noem is a Moron. That's the Point.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Michael Schwirtz |Jane Bradley |Lucy Jones |Dado Galdieri
A inteligência russa transformou o Brasil em uma linha de montagem de espiões. Mas policiais federais brasileiros trabalham, discretamente, para desmontá-la. Artem Shmyrev enganou a todos. O agente da inteligência russa parecia ter criado o disfarce perfeito: comandava uma bem-sucedida empresa de impressão 3D e morava em um apartamento de luxo no Rio de Janeiro, junto com a namorada brasileira e um gato felpudo, de pelagem laranja e branca, da raça Maine Coon.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Michael Schwirtz |Jane Bradley
The messages offer a glimpse at life deep undercover. Our correspondents break down four revealing exchanges. Artem Shmyrev and his wife, Irina, were members of an elite few. After nearly a decade of rigorous training in Russian spycraft, the pair were working as deep-cover operatives with fake identities that they planned to use for the rest of their careers. Their assignments - hers in Greece and his in Brazil - are seen in Russia's intelligence agencies as a prestigious opportunity. A privilege.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Michael Schwirtz |Jane Bradley |Lucy Jones |Dado Galdieri
Russia's intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it. Artem Shmyrev had everyone fooled. The Russian intelligence officer seemed to have built the perfect cover identity. He ran a successful 3-D printing business and shared an upscale apartment in Rio de Janeiro with his Brazilian girlfriend and a fluffy orange-and-white Maine coon cat.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Jane Bradley
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