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Gujarat Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Thursday arrested a 53-year-old espionage agent named Labhsankar Maheswari from Gujarat's Tarapur based on specific input provided by Military Intelligence (MI)., India News, Times Now

>> you would know, right? >> ive been to a lot of debriefs with her in the last 18 months. and thats not really consistent. she was active. she was a climber, and wanted to -- wanted the best for russia and the united states. she was never working as a government -- as an espionage agent or anything like that. i dont -- i cant imagine her saying she was being groomed to be the president of russia but i think she was someone held in high esteem by many russians before she came over and accomplish...

Would you want to run down a lead when you hear your boss is wrong, oh, by the way every fbi agent that touched the case going in to 2016 is essentially pushed out, fired, demoted. there are people in the ranks right now that are probably wanting to get out of foreign counterintelligence against russia because they dont want to be put in this position again. and then you hear that. this sends downward pressure. what ive not heard from the attorney general, who seems to be very worried that this ...

On the m.i. 6 website. they advertise for analysts who stay at home and analyze and field officers who go out into the field and recruit spies as agents for the united kingdom. he was in this jumbled interrogation and said he did both jobs. i happen to know because i spent many years studying british intelligence. analysts rarely, if ever, are asked to conduct field operations and certainly not attempt to recruit agents, which is a specialist task which takes many, many years of training. so, th...

Organization, something that the intelligence community has bitterly opposed for years seeing himself as a surveillance and espionage agent. i think maybe that view has now prevailed and as you say it dovetails with aspects of the russia investigation. >> harry, very quickly, does this change at all the potential cooperation of a government like ecuador? perhaps even the uk to hand him over, to release him over if they know the charges? i assume if these charges had been filed under seal that th...

She is said to have connections to the kremlin. it is hard to represent large interests in a country where large interests are owned by the state without having some alleged ties to the russian government. there is no indication she was acting as an espionage agent, political agent on the behalf of vladimir putin or the the kremlin. this appears to be an attempt by somebody to make some headway with the trump campaign on an issue that she had reason to care about, when you get down to it it hard...

Investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. he talked with gerardo hernandez, the cuban fives leader. >> nice to have you here. >> president obama said the deal with cuba was a spy-for-spy swap. michael gross was sort of an awesome bonus. how should americans look at this? >> well, what the u.s. and cuban officials are saying is the release of alan gross was done on human grounds. the spy-for-spy swap was the release of the last three remaining members of the cuban 5 for the u.s. espionage agen...

The russians and does nothing on our part. and when obama refuses to support the revolutions in 2009 and appears to be relaxing sanctions, giving away the store on nuclear weapons. is there no tyrant or anti-american center in the world that obama will not appease for nothing in return? if he gets something in return, i would be willing to listen. i havent seen anything. >> obviously, warren, quickly, people are happy that mr. gross is home. but you have even bob menendez, from new jersey, a dem...

Open about it as a retired espionage agent for france. thank you very much, bill cohen. >> good to be with you. >> up neck, fighting that cyber war, we talk to former homeland security chief michael cherthoff. up for an oscar and detained at the airport? youre watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. commitment to the gulf. and every day since, weve worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. weve shared what weve learned, so we can all produce en...