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How Russia Outsourced an Assassination in America
Description
A Russian intelligence-linked network allegedly recruited people already inside the U.S. to surveil a prominent Russian dissident in the Washington, D.C., area. The price was up to $1,500 for photographs and videos. The offer to carry out the murder was $40,000.
In this episode of The Watch Floor, Sarah Adams breaks down how the operation moved from Russia through Cuban and Venezuelan intermediaries to a Brooklyn resident, why the completed surveillance matters, and how the same network was allegedly tied to assassination and sabotage operations across Europe.
The plot reveals a model that is cheaper, harder to trace, and designed to place distance between the Russian government and the person closest to the target.
The assassination was not carried out. The pre-operational surveillance was.