FBI sleeper‑agent arrests in 2010 may have thwarted a Russian effort to recruit an NSA insider and inadvertently exposed CIA mole Poteyev

The passage links multiple high‑level intelligence agencies (NSA, FBI, CIA, SVR) and a known Russian operative (Poteyev) to a possible insider threat within the NSA and to a chain of events that compr FBI arrested 12 alleged Russian sleeper agents in June 2010, ending a surveillance operation that mi A password supplied by SVR mole Sergei Poteyev was used by an FBI agent to impersonate an SVR offi