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Just evaporated and we had nothing. >> of course, we thought they were outright stealing documents, they could be planting bugs, anything like that. there was no telling what they did. that was the concern. >> we were convinced the russians had a success story. what it was, we did not know. >> in the late 90s, i was the most junior agent on my squad, so i had the work that no one else wanted. i was in charge of investigating the sbr line o.t. o.t. means operational technical. these russian techn...

Counter intelligence in the united states. my counterpart at the fbi washington field office arranged for me to come down and meet with him and another agent. they said, robert, this is a catalog of russian diplomats coming to visit the state department. >> most of them were diplomats, had been in their ministry of foreign affairs, but the fraction were spies. intelligence officers serving under diplomatic cover. theyre trained in all the trade craft of recruiting people, detecting, evading surv...

Here. >> we thought they could be outright stealing documents. they could be planting bugs, anything like that. but, you know, frankly, we didnt know what they were doing. that was the concern. >> unfortunately, after six weeks, we were no closer to the answers we were seeking than when we began. all that we confirmed was they were coming to the main state department building in numbers and frequencies that simply was inconsistent with diplomatic dialogue. we were unable to go beyond that. >> wh...

At the u.s. department of state. my counter part at the fbis washingtons field office arranged for me to come down and meet with him and another agent. they said robert, this is a catalog of russian diplomats coming to visit the state department. >> most of them were diplomats had been in the ministry of foreign affairs but a fraction of the diplomats were spies, intelligence officers serving under diplomatic cover. they are trained in all the trade craft of recruiting people, detecting, evading...

Could be out right stealing documents or planting bugs. there is no telling what they did. that was a concern. >> we were convinced that the russians had a success story. what it was, we did not know. >> in the late 90s, i was the most junior on my squad. i had the work nobody else wanted. i was in charge of investigating the svr line ot, ot means operational technical. these russian technical officers were supporting operations like our tech agents support us but not doing the operations. so i...

Let dimitri in. hangs up. she writes it in. off he goes. and where he went, we have no clue. in this case, unfortunately, we did not have access to be able to follow. >> doing surveillance of the outside of the state department is easy. doing surveillance on the inside of the state department very, very difficult. sometimes it just two of you going down a hallway and its, you know, you can get away with that only so long. >> why didnt you get rid of him? kick him out, arrest him? >> they violate...

World are going to be relying on the credibility of the white house to tell them what to do to protect them selves. i can tell you when i was in the white house talking about ebola, people were looking to the white house briefing and to federal employees to give them advice about what to do to protect themselves. and the international community was looking to the white house to describe what the united states was going to do to stop the outbreak in west africa of ebola from expanding. and it dep...

>> the meeting was very high level, it was like two faculty members sitting down in the faculty lounge talking about research. and there was no indication or no inclination that this was anything other than just wanting to offer up his help to the campaign if i needed it. it was not anything other than him talking about the research that he had done on china. and that was essentially what the discussion was about. and we already had a lot of china people involved. >> when you listen to that, doe...