Christopher Metsos News Today

Every american who watches this is going to ask the question, who can i trust . As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives, people who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure...

That will make the 15 years worthwhile. >> in 2006 we learned from the canadian secret intelligence service that they intended imminently to arrest paul to arrest an illegal operating as a xan by the name of paul hempel. >> after the arrest of paul hempel, the russian government became concerned about the u.s. governments ability to ferret out false canadian documentation. in the case of christopher metsos, that documentation was used to support his travels throughout the united states. so the s...

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Operations. and then gps shows that metzos car traveled approximately 80 miles north of new york city to a small rest stop in new york. metsos buries the final portion of the money at the base of a hole underneath an inverted brown bottle. agents in new york set up cameras to monitor that drop. that camera became a whole new case, separate code name. we didnt know how long it would be there. >> but we had to be ready to document that whenever it happened. >> the whole role of intelligence agenci...

In the eyes of our adversary. and if we made it a success, we plant a flag not only for fbi counterintelligence, but the u.s. intelligence community of exactly what our capabilities are. but if we screwed this up, it would be a big problem. june 22nd one of his sons . >> june. >> if we miss the opportunity we wouldnt have an opportunity to catch everyone in the united states for months. even more importantly, beyond that night christopher metsos who we hadnt seen in the united states since 2016 ...

Video of it. >> its a long game. signif fant events occurred only a couple of times a year. >> we couldnt allow ourselves to become complacent. we knew what they were going to do yesterday but not tomorrow or next week. >> one of the big events occurred in june of 2006 when michael zottoli transferred from washington state to new york and unearthed the drop that christopher metsos had filled two years before. zottoli now has a sith amount of cash to fund his living expenses in the united states ...

They are, and theyre, again -- the americans could have walked in the room with absolutely no ill intent whatsoever. but im not sure that the russians walked into the room with the same intent. >> under the russians are pretty clever file, mike rogers, lets talk about your cnn original series, airs on saturday, the entire first episode is about the spies next door, operation ghost stories, where this is all about russian spies infiltrating the u.s. and trying to, you know, seemingly live these n...

Them member of their family. it looks like the spy swap is almost at the final stage. the only part of the story still unresolved deals with an 11th accused spy, christopher metsos who apparently fled while out on bail on the island of cyprus. at this hour, he still remains a fugitive from justice. shannon? >> david lee miller with the latest. thank you. >> shannon: applications for first-time jobless benefit fell by 21,000 last week and international bankers are not that impressed calling on pr...

>> he will have to assess as to whether he can still lead the republican party as chairman of the republican national committee. and make an appropriate decision. >> former democratic party chair says that he is the gift that keeps on giving for democrats. in washington for fox news. >> thank you. the international manhunt continues for the only tiewjive of -- fugitive of a russian spy ring working in the u.s., the pay master, christopher metsos but he remains mysterious. met society was -- mets...

Now and perhaps instead of being many in montclair, new jersey, and leading typical suburban lives, maybe they were able to impregnate the government. i havent heard anybody from the government give us some level of assurance, dont worry, we got them all. >> i dont believe you will. it is my understanding and federal officials have said there is a very profound network here that they were worried would help these people escape if they needed to, the implication being there were russians on our s...