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It is no secret that the u.s. and russia still spy on one another. here in washington, it is part of a lore of the city. this mailbox was once the place where an american double agent would leave a mark to signal his russian handlers. and remember anna chapman, part of a russian sleeper cell living a suburban life who was expelled in 2010. this case is a little mysterious. look closer at that evidence. the wigs, it's raising questions. spy craft that seems more maxwell smart than james bond. peter earnest was a cia officer for 20 years. want to do is get picked up and >> the one thing a spy do...

Russian handlers. and remember anna chapman, part of a russian sleeper cell living a suburban life who was expelled in 2010. this case is a little mysterious. look closer at that evidence. the wigs, it's raising questions. spy craft that seems more maxwell smart than james bond. peter earnest was a cia officer for 20 years. want to do is get picked up and >> the one thing a spy doesn't want to do is get picked up and have stuff on him, spy stuff. unless as the speculation goes, it is a total set up. >> reporter: maybe he is a spy or maybe the russians were trying to embarrass a diplomat, the c...

Messages into an image that anyone can see on a website and extracting it with software, and using computers with special capability. i spoke about that with peter earnest, former cia operations officer. >> they allegedly used prif wireless networks to communicate between those networks. what does that do for you as a pie? look, all of the trade craft in espionage technology is designed to enable the intelligence officer to communicate with his agent without being seen with him or her. >> reporter: one of the agents meets with his handler and they walk to the park for a conversation. that turn...

>> espionage is a fact of state craft unfortunately. it's gone on since recorded history. certainly the russians have had a terrific record of espionage against this country. they have deeply penetrated our society before world war ii and we were allies during that war. so there's no reason to think that they let up in any way. the what you will see is espionage directed at gaining u.s. government secrets and gaining our technology secrets. >> all right. peter earnest from spy museum and deborah feyerick here in new york, thank you very much. appreciate it. "larry king live" starting in just a...

>> deb, one of these alleged spies worked as a columnist for over 20 years. that's not exactly hiding. given the questions peter raised there, do we know much about these people and their connections? >> five people in court in manhattan today, they do appear to have known each other. the columnist's assignment was to go in and blend in and stay for the long run. this was a long-term investigation here in the united states. according to the complaint it appears that last week undercover agents made contact with two of the people and one of the women may have gotten suspicious because after she...