You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some

36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an operations officer

or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks

with visitors, with authors, with others

who have something to do with the world of intelligence

and espionage. world of Intelligence and Espionage.

Our guest today is a member of our own board and that is Major General Oleg Kalukin of the

KGB now retired.

Major General Kaleugin was the youngest major general in the KGB.

He was part of the reform movement in the Soviet Union,

came to this country, and has since then

become an American citizen.

And we're here to talk about the arrest of 10, actually 11 members of a Russian spy network last two weeks

ago actually on Sunday the 27th of June.

And at that time, there was a complaint filed

in the Southern District of New York,

which provided many details about the work of the network, the names of the people in the network,

and the complaint alleged that the members of the network were in fact Russian citizens and not Americans though they were posing as Americans.

Since then the press has been filled with stories about what the network was really up to,

...