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Russia announcing stanisl stanislav gustav's arrival. your intention, your request for that person to be accredited as a diplomat. the standard procedure for us is to check with the intelligence community just to see what pops up. a lot of times there's nothing. the assumption is they're a clean diplomat. in his case it did not come back he was a clean diplomat. he was specifically a line o.t. officer. his predecessor was the line ofrmt o.t. chief in the embassy, and he was replacing him. everything matched. so even though we knew he was the spy state department, still accredited gusev as a di...

Leader imploring me to come out to their off-site to see this video immediately. he believed it definitely indicated there was some kind much technical operation going on. and so the thought was he's doing area familiarization. he's a technical guy. so maybe he's just sweeping the radio spectrum for the area. i believed he was doing something nefarious, but not operations because line o.t. officers don't do operations. that was the conventional wisdom at the time. but i switched my attention very closely to him. i was out there every day of the week for months, and i had an old thomas guide an...

When they come into the united states, they will be followed. we have to establish their patterns. typically you don't see a lot of operations in the first few months. they assume they're under heavy surveillance. at the time that gusev came to the united states, i had way more work than i could handle. i had been following a multitude of line o.t. officers including his predecessor. and so my assumption was i can focus on other things and when he gets settled, then i'll dig in my heels and start tracking. it was my luck, his misfortune that a surveillance team who was sitting outside of sta...

Other countries have to announce to the host government your intention, your rekwquest for tt person to be accredited as a diplomat. the standard procedure is check with the intelligence committee to see what's up. in his case it did not come back he was a clean diplomat, it came back he was very specifically a line o.t. officer and the predecessor was the line of the embassy and replacing him. everything matched. even though we knew he was the spy, the state department still accredited g uso v as a diplomat. in he comes. >> wasn't he compromised from the moment he got here because you knew wh...