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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 zitoli transferred from washington state to new york and unearthed the drop that christopher metzos had filled two years before. z zitoli now has the resources to continue his work. >> after that, we spent a lot of time watching. >> we werent waiting for anything in particular....

Call home and ask him, can you pick up the children from the play date? and he would mutter something about being busy, you know, im vacuuming or something, and then, you know, we would hear, hes watching "the sopranos." so to everybody watching them, and even to us who monitored them every day for years, they did seem very, very normal. >> no government makes that type of investment unless they see a real benefit for their intelligence arsenal that they want to maintain. in the course of the in...

For several months at a time to the u.s. in order to supply money and tradecraft materials to the illegals operating in the united states. >> how did the fbi become aware of christopher metzos? >> that remains classified. >> mr. metzos was being tasked to meet with a russian diplomat. >> the fbi was waiting for him. may 16th, 2004, on the stairs of the forest hill station on long island railroad, an metsos moving up the stairs conducts whats called a brush pass with a russian diplomats. identica...

Operated from the russian federation and was dispatched for several months at a time to the u.s. in order to supply money and tradecraft materials to the illegals operating in the united states. >> how did the fbi become aware of christopher metzos? >> that remains classified. >> mr. metzos was being tasked to meet with a russian dip low mal mat. >> the fbi was waiting for him. on the stairs of a station of the long island railroad, metzos exchanges bags with a diplomat traveling down the stairs...

She would be busy at work and she would call home and ask him, can you pick up the children from the play date? and he would mutter something about being busy, you know, im vacuuming or something, and then, you know, we would hear, hes watching "the sopranos." so to everybody watching them, and even to us who monitored them every day for years, they did seem very, very normal. >> no government makes that type of investment unless they see a real benefit for their intelligence arsenal that they w...

Worthwhile. >> in 2006 we learned from the canadian secret intelligence service that they intended imminently to arrest paul hem l 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 metzos, that documentation was used to support his travels throughout the united states. so they stopped sending him. >> that meant the svr had to find new ways of funding the u.s...

With relatives. jon? >> prosecutors yesterday told us of a dramatic confession from one of the accused spies but today, were hearing a different story? >> what a difference a day makes. only yesterday, one of the accused spies said in fact, that was not his real name. he said that he was living in a home that was paid for by moscow and he said he had greater loyalty to the russian spy service than his own 17-year-old son. now his attorney tells fox news that he is recanting that confession. that...