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I Spy

The Investigator

I Spy

Foreign Policy

History, News, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Secret Service is known for its VIP protection unit but it also investigates international crimes, including hacking cases. On this episode, we feature a Secret Service agent who helped nab one of the biggest hackers in the world, Roman Seleznev.

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0:00.0

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0:39.6

The pilot then radioed to the tower requesting permission to take off.

0:50.8

Here's back that there's a major tropical storm in Guam, and that we would be grounded

0:57.6

in the Maldives for six hours.

1:00.1

And at this point, I started shaking.

1:03.6

If we touched down with Celesnev anywhere that wasn't part of the US,

1:08.6

the Russians would put a lot of pressure on that country to keep him there and not let him leave.

1:14.4

So we had to risk it. Our team made the call. Get the plane in the air now.

1:24.8

From foreign policy, welcome to I Spy.

1:28.0

On each episode, we get one former intelligence operative to tell the story of one operation.

1:34.0

I'm Margot Martin Dale.

1:36.2

We all know the Secret Service as the agency that protects the president and other top US officials.

1:41.8

But it actually began as an arm of the Treasury Department.

1:46.0

And to this day, its mission also includes investigating fraud and other financial crimes.

1:52.4

More recently, the Secret Service has been focusing on hacking cases.

1:57.6

Starting in 2004, the agency spent years tracking the movements of one particular hacker,

2:04.4

Roman Celesnev, the son of a prominent Russian family, and also one of the most notorious cyber

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