Langley, Virginia, home of the CIA.
As the CIA's finest torture experts pry open Ben Ali's mouth, a new mysterious figure appears before the Colombian intelligence team.
This is a Russian-American man who lives or has lived in the United States, has a high position in the Slavic gang and is a respected lawyer.
Although there is no more information, the thief himself has filtered out a lot of suspects.
Because the Slavic gang members who can become legal thieves are definitely not nobodies.
Now the intelligence team needs to shift its focus from Colombia to the United States, and find this thief with eyes and hands out of the crowd.
It's not the C.I.A.A.'
s forte, but the FBI and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration know more about organized crime in the country.
When the C.I.A. reported the case to the FBI and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, they received a disappointing response.
Even this institution knows very little about the Slav gangs in the United States.
"Why isn't it clear, don't you know that this thief is Escobar's largest arms supplier," the CIA liaison officer asked impatiently.
"I'm sorry, but the main opponents on our side are Italian and Latin American gangs, the Slavic gangs are not the focus of our surveillance and so far we have found no direct evidence of the existence of such a big man in the country."
The other side explained to the CIA liaison.
Neither the FBI nor the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) responded satisfactorily, and the C.I.A. had to think of a clumsy way to find clues from the archives of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the Justice Department.
Colombian intelligence teams quickly rallied more intelligence agents to the operation, selecting Russian criminals with gang backgrounds who were serving more than 10 years in prison from the archives of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
Such prisoners are generally core members of the gang, and they naturally have a wider range of information channels and connections, and if a legal thief is in the United States, they will definitely not be unaware.
The C.I.A. was not enough to do so, and they had to fight Escobar's growing power, so the menial task of going to the prison to interrogate the inmates one by one was entrusted to the FBI, which is responsible for fighting domestic crime.
The FBI has interrogated hundreds of Russian detainees with gang backgrounds in more than fifty federal and state prisons in several states.
Most of them scoffed at the F.B.I.'
s interrogations.
But the hard work paid off, and I still found some clues.
"I know a few of them, but most of them came to the U.S. because of persecution by the Soviet government.
These people are either dead or retired now" In a state prison in Virginia, an elderly inmate is finally willing to answer FBI questions, but this guy has been locked up for so long that he doesn't know a lot of things out there.
"The lawyer we are looking for should have only arrived in the United States in recent years.
He seems to be an arms dealer.
The FBI officer asked unrelentingly.
"I'm sorry, I don't think there's anyone I know.
We were all expelled from our homeland penniless, and then came to the United States without a word of English.
The first thing we did after getting off the boat was to find an Orthodox church, as the Orthodox church would let us stay for a while and help us find a job.
People like me have to work as a chef in a Russian restaurant on Brighton Beach. ” "Brighton Beach, what's that place?"
the federal agent asked casually.
"It's a Russian neighborhood in New York, supposedly a playground a few years ago, then abandoned, and ten out of ten new Soviet immigrants to the country lived in this place at first."
This kind of thing is not a secret, so the prisoner has no scruples about talking about it.
The federal agents talked to the prisoner for about an hour, and they took the transcript in its entirety and handed it over to the CIA.
Although the report had no practical content, it was treated by others because there were not many prisoners who were willing to speak.
After a month of investigation and analysis, the C.I.A. still didn't find anything concrete.
They felt that the thief did not seem to have anything to do with the gangsters who had already settled in the United States.
None of the words were of much value, but some of the key points in the transcript caught the attention of intelligence experts.
That's the Russian communities that don't have a lot on the east and west coasts.
Most of the Russians who have left their homeland have a strong sense of the country.
You must know that the earliest vodka brewers in the United States came from the former Tsarist Russia.
Although all Caucasian people are the same in the eyes of Asians, the inhabitants of Western and Eastern Europe have belonged to different races since Roman times.
Western Europeans are mostly descendants of Germanic and Celtic peoples, while Eastern Europe is Slavic.
Later, after the division of the Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe were not the same even the cross and the pope.
Most of the immigrants to the United States came from Western Europe, so the Slavs were not really part of the mainstream American society.
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Owning their own community is a means for many minorities in the U.S. to protect themselves.
The arrival of Russian immigrants was only a matter of a few decades, and it was only after the October Revolution that Russian immigrants began to settle in the United States.
In recent years, the number of true Russians has not increased much, and most of the immigrants from the Soviet Union to the United States are Jews.
Other than that, there are only a handful of dissidents and defectors.
Because of their small numbers, the Russian-American community has never been the focus of American surveillance.
On the contrary, it was the Jews from the Soviet Union that the CIA had been concerned about.
Because of the modest gains in federal prisons, the C.I.A. intends to conduct its next investigations from Soviet Jews or some key Russian communities.
At the same time, CIA surveillance planes and maritime reconnaissance ships began to spy on which ocean-going freighters frequently docked in Colombia.
The FBI is still very efficient, but since Colombia is an economically underdeveloped country, almost most of the supplies need to be imported from abroad.
So the investigation of transport ships has been slow, but there has been a breakthrough in those investigations of the Russian community.
A police report in New York pointed out that the reporting rate in Brighton Beach in the United States began to decline at some point, and it is unbelievable that there is such a thing as a drop in crime in this place near Brooklyn. t1706231537: