How ‘Daniel’ Led Our Reporters to an Assembly Line for Russian Spies

Jane Bradley, Michael Schwirtz, Christina Thornell, Laura Salaberry and Nikolay Nikolov
5/22/2025

For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case....

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