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>> we had a number of white collar fraud charges, car loans, bank charges, each of those is a separate count of wire fraud, bank fraud. >> while all the rest of this was going on, we had to develop charges on anna chapman and mikhail somenko. >> they were different. a number of the charges didn't apply to them. >> what we utilized in both cases was a false flag. a false flag is basically introducing someone to them who they believe to be a russian official and seeing if they will do something. >> so two independent fbi undercover operations were launched. >> in washington, somenko was being ta...

That's what they really are. >> after years and years of watching these people, we started to see a change. >> it became harder and harder to document fictitious people. the svr advanced and developed their tradecraft. and we started to see a new generation of illegals who could withstand the scrutiny of travel into and out of the united states with their own identities. >> anna chapman and mikhail semenko came to the united states utilizing their true names and their true documentation. what they didn't reveal was their affiliation with russian intelligence services. mikhail somenko arrived i...

>> after years and years of watching these people, we started to see a change. >> it became harder and harder to document fictitious people. the svr advanced and developed their tradecraft. and we started to see a new generation of illegals who could withstand the scrutiny of travel into and out of the united states. with their own identities. >> anna chapman and mikhail somenko came to the united states utilizing their true names and true documentation. what they didn't reveal was their affiliation with russian intelligence services. mikhail somenko arrived in the united states to attend seto...

Could lar fund charges, their bank accounts did, home mortgage, car loenz. each one of those is a separate count of wire fraud, branch fraud. each of those is like five years in prison so you had a big hammer. >> while all the rest of this was going on, we had to develop charges on anna chapman and mikhail somenko. >> they were different. they were here in true name. a number of the charges didn't apply to them. >> what we utilized in both cases was a false flag. a false flag is basically introducing someone to them who they believe to be a russian official and seeing if they will do something...