![]() I would have told her anything,” he told me. He was also smitten with the female agent. He was stunned by their sudden appearance and spooked by their efficiency and competence. They wanted to know what he knew about this military work and then asked him to identify photographs of various equipment and instruments. They also had a dossier on his old academic advisor back in Moscow containing intel about the research the professor was doing and the contracts he had with the Russian military. They had a detailed file which, among other things, included every application he had submitted to American universities. They came right to his apartment and seemed to know everything about him. He told me that not long after moved, he got an unexpected visit from a couple of FBI agents who tried to recruit him. Years ago, he had studied engineering in Moscow and later transferred to a university here in the states. I was talking recently to a Russian acquaintance of mine who lives in the New York area. We never knew what it was like to have the country’s media and political class brand people like us a possible threat. ![]()
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