Summary of Peter Strzok's Compromised

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was part of a five-person crew that broke into a bank in 2001. We had carefully chosen the timing of the operation, as it was during the day when tourists and students were present, and we were least likely to be noticed.
#2 The manager let us into the bank’s safety deposit box vault, where we searched for a box rented by Don Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley. We didn’t have the second key, so our locksmith had to file down a blank key to make it fit.
#3 The FBI has a team of agents who are known as Flaps and Seals. Their mission is to open a sealed envelope, crack open a shipping container, bypass the alarm system in a locked home, and leave no trace.
#4 The team found a small stack of 35mm black-and-white photo negative strips, about 20 frames or so, that had been taken by Don and Ann. They were photos of a young woman posing in a forest.

Sujets

• Histoire
• General officer
• General
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350015874
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Peter Strzok's Compromised
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was part of a five-person crew that broke into a bank in 2001. We had carefully chosen the timing of the operation, as it was during the day when tourists and students were present, and we were least likely to be noticed.

#2

The manager let us into the bank’s safety deposit box vault, where we searched for a box rented by Don Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley. We didn’t have the second key, so our locksmith had to file down a blank key to make it fit.

#3

The FBI has a team of agents who are known as Flaps and Seals. Their mission is to open a sealed envelope, crack open a shipping container, bypass the alarm system in a locked home, and leave no trace.

#4

The team found a small stack of 35mm black-and-white photo negative strips, about 20 frames or so, that had been taken by Don and Ann. They were photos of a young woman posing in a forest.

#5

Understanding the FBI’s work in counterintelligence, which is known as CI within the American intelligence community, means understanding intelligence. Intelligence is the conveyance of a strategic advantage by a country’s clandestine activities.

#6

The FBI is a Janus-like entity with both intelligence and law enforcement roles. We want to stop spies like Don and Ann, but we also might have to bring them to a judge in handcuffs or prove to a jury that they violated United States law.

#7

The FBI and CIA both collect intelligence, but they use different terms to refer to it. FBI agents and CIA officers are a small component of the people involved in gathering human intelligence. The bulk of collection is done by sources recruited by agents.

#8

The FBI has many tools to use against threats, from traditional counterintelligence against so-called symmetric threat activity to asymmetric threats outside that definition. Offensive counterintelligence is effective and devious.

#9

Counterintelligence work is murky, and hardly ever ends with clear conclusions. It means that sometimes agents know enough to be confident that something happened but do not have enough unclassified or admissible evidence to prosecute it criminally.

#10

The US became the Main Enemy after the Germany/ USSR alliance collapsed, and the two countries began competing with each other, both politically and economically. While the US turned its attention to the new challenges of leadership, the Russian superpower quietly kept its spy games going.

#11

The two KGB officers, Donald Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, were dead doubles. They had been assigned the identities of two long-dead children, and they had pledged their lives to Russia.

#12

As the world changed around them, Andrey and Elena continued to build a life together in Canada, while also gathering information on American life and sending it back to Center.

#13

The FBI was able to crack the code by listening to the broadcasts and noting which lights in which rooms were turned on. They were able to figure out that the five-digit groups of numbers were scrambled with a one-time pad, a cryptography method dating to the late 19th century.

#14

The Flaps and Seals team would go into the apartment of the suspected Russians, Don and Ann, and take pictures of everything. They would then clone the hard drive of a suspicious laptop and diskettes, and photograph documents and items that appeared to be potentially incriminating.

#15

The more you limit your activities relating to your past life, the better off you are as an illegal. Andrey and Elena, who were two young Soviets who barely knew each other until their country paired them for a lifetime of espionage, had two kids who were teenagers by the time their parents were arrested.

#16

The FBI’s investigative guidelines contain the idea of using the least intrusive method to achieve what needs to be done to protect the U. S. It is a fundamental part of who we are as a nation, and it is something that I always watched new agents observe when they experienced their first truly invasive surveillance.

#17

The FBI knew that Andrey and Elena were too well trained to say anything interesting over the phone. They were likely to open up about their illegal intelligence activities only in places where they thought they were alone and could speak privately.

#18

Clandestine operations require a lot of effort to hide the involvement of the intelligence agency. A shadowy hand guides all intelligence work, and secrecy is the veil that shields that hand from view.

#19

When do you stop looking for foreign intelligence activity if you suspect it but can’t find proof of it. The answer is that you frequently don’t. In most cases, counterintelligence work is like the worst novel you’ve ever read: a never-ending stream of scenes following an intriguing path that ultimately goes nowhere.

#20

The Russians have a special word for a particularly effective form of coercion: kompromat. The Russian intelligence services devote considerable effort and expense to obtain kompromat on people they wish to manipulate, whether through sexual advances, bribes, or other inducements.

#21

There is no set formula for compromising someone, and it is extremely difficult to do so. What matters is not the shameful fact itself, but how the person views it.

#22

The arrests presented serious logistical challenges. The optimal window for arrests was determined to be Sunday, June 27, because Andrey’s travel overseas was imminent. I flew to Boston a couple of days before the arrests.

#23

I went to the FBI’s Boston field office on arrest day, Sunday morning, and sensed a palpable energy charging through the office. Even Carl, who was usually taciturn with a dash of habitual crankiness, had a type of pregame excitement that I had not seen before.

#24

The arrest teams were deployed around midday. They rushed to the residence of Andrey and Elena and began knocking on the front door. The fast-moving line of cars turned onto Harvard Street, but came to a sudden halt when Cambridge Police Department officers blocked the road.

#25

The arrest team burst through the door, and the family’s teenage son, Tim, was sitting in front of a computer. They took him to be taken to the field office to be fingerprinted and photographed.

#26

After the two groups swapped places, the 767 took off again, flying first to the UK to drop off two of the former prisoners before continuing on to Dulles Airport. The passengers faded into anonymity in Western life.

#27

Russia has been the alpha and the omega of U. S. counterintelligence throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The Kremlin’s active measures, the underhanded dirty tricks and kompromat, did not die with the collapse of the USSR, but instead continued through today.

#28

I was waiting for George, the meticulous agent who had helped us slip into Andrey and Elena’s vault, in 2001. George was arriving on a U. S. Airways shuttle with a partner from the Flaps and Seals team. They were coming back into town to help troubleshoot a small issue.

#29

The September 11 attacks changed how the FBI conducted counterintelligence and how the Bureau interacted with its sister intelligence agencies. They dramatically changed how the digital landscape of counterintelligence and cyberwarfare looked.

#30

The first officer of EgyptAir Flight 990 en route from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Cairo intentionally plunged the aircraft down into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles south of Nantucket.

#31

I spent the next several weeks at Logan airport chasing down flight manifests, reviewing videotape of check-in counters, and interviewing employees. The country was adrift in uncharted waters, and a sense of outrage and dread blanketed the nation.

#32

After September 11, the FBI changed forever. The Wall, a set of regulations that had been created in the 1990s to separate criminal and national security investigations, had the unintended consequence of impeding the flow of information between the two sides.

#33

The Patriot Act, which was passed shortly after the attacks, fundamentally enhanced the flow of information within the FBI. It also dramatically changed the standards for issuing national security letters, or NSLs.

#34

The Washington Post reported on June 7, 2013, that the NSA and FBI were tapping the central servers of nine leading U.