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>> welcome back, im fredricka whitfield. if a mansion sitting on 45 acres, with a pool and tennis court, long time retreat for russian diplomats and their families in maryland. the obama administration says the beach side compound and luxury estate are spy nest is, both shut down. cnn barbara starr reports on the u.s. and russias long history of spying on each other. >> reporter: fbi cameras captured russian operative in a federal undercover agent meeting in a new york coffee shop in june 2010. ...

So both nations have certainly in the past kicked out each others spies before. >> reporter: absolutely. this has been a cat and mouse game going on really for decades. its been immortalized in television and movies. but the reality can be quite vicious and dangerous. fbi cameras captured russian operative anna chapman and an undercover agent meeting in a new york coffee shop in june 2010. 17 days later, chapman and nine other russian sleeper agents were arrested in new york, new jersey, and vir...

This afternoon as part of the u.s. sanctions against russia. cnns barbara starr is at the pentagon. in 1992 the associated press ran a story about this retreat in maryland in which one of the neighbors remarked that the russians there made their steamed crabs differently than the locals. i hope they were using old bay. but otherwise seemed fairly normal. i guess thats the point, right? >> reporter: well, you know, the best spy nest maybe looks perfectly normal from the outside. this cat-and-mous...

The islamic and non-islamic populations they lord over. they charge fines, civil penalties. what do they do with the money? dispatch sleeper agents into nonisis held territory, equipped with $300,000. they say, find your own battalion, or infiltrate an existing one, and with all that wealth, you can sort of creep your way to the top, and before long, youll be the top commander, the brigade command e and whether they realize it, you manipulate them and steer them in our direction. thats how they ...

A third of syria, not because these guys fight so terribly well. they went like lambs to the slaughter. i was told that a lot of guys thought there was a conspiracy to have them cakilled. the reason they are taking so much terrain, they dispatched sleeper agents into free syrian territory with a lot of money. isis is a wealthy franchise and control the oil fields and make money from human trafficking. they impose taxation, right? the more terrain they take, the more people there are to collect i...

In the mediterranean sea. in austria where officials are working to establish order. austria has taken in 11,000 people in 24 hours. germany is taking in some migrants by train tonight and tomorrow. one of the most dangerous aspects of the refugee crisis is the ease at which isis fighters in syria can disguise themselves among refugees, travel to europe and restart lives as sleeper agents. there are precious safe guards to keep that from happening. journalist nick fagge travelled and complete ...

Syria or heading to europe, its turkeys responsibility to provide protection and assistance, and its the international communitys responsibility to help fund that and defray the costs which shouldnt fall on turkey alone, but what turkey is doing is shoveling this problem off to europe. >> turkey doesnt want this problem in their backyard. its worth noting the number of refugees taken in by each one try in the middle east. turkey to your point, 1.9 million though they are sending some of those ou...

Co-author and i, we interviewed -- >> im not about to shoot up a texas cartoon convention. >> most arent. >> so i think we have to be careful here because its one thing to say isis high command for lack of a better term decided and, you know, plotted and orchestrated a terrorist attack, found the sleeper agents or, you know, willing executi executioners to perpetrate that attack and gave them all kinds of logistical planning and intelligence coordination, the rest of it, versus two who wanted to...

Theres a new wrinkle in the fraud case involving nearly 50 russian diplomats and their wives. theyre accused of running a decade-long scheme to steal $1.5 million from medicaid but now it appears there may be a whole lot more to this story. sources telling cnn some of these alleged thieves are also spies. cnns justice reporter evan perez broke the story for us. tell us what youve learned. >> reporter: well, wolf, sources tell me that for some time, the fbi has been trying to bring spy charges ag...

July 2010 when ten russian sleeper agents were found by the fbi all over the u.s. there were a quiet swap arranged, the spies crossed the tarmac, got into their separate planes and that was it. weve had this slow grinding. people in the white house that ive talked tore extremely angry at the russians. theyre increasingly throwing their hands up and say how can we even work with this people? what are they good for? the problem is we need them a lot more than the russians need us. >> and there is ...