Daily Mail: Voice recorders in binders and secret meetings with undercover agents: How FBI penetrated Cold War-style Russian spy ring in New York City
* Evgeny Buryakov, 39, is one of three Russians accused of operating in New York to gain 'economic intelligence' and recruit sources
* Undercover FBI agent posing as analyst at energy firm slipped one of Buryakov's associates binders containing voice recorders
* Devices eavesdropped on private conversations between accused spies dating back to 2013
* Russian attache Victor Podobnyy and trade representative Igor Sporyshev avoided getting arrested because of diplomatic immunity
* In one recorded conversation, Podobnyy complained to Sporyshev that their work was nothing like 'movies about James Bond'
In a twist straight out of The Cold War, it was revealed that the FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence agents in New York City, including a suspected spy, by hiding recorders in binders.
The hours of secret recordings dating back from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who US prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a Cold War-style spy ring.
The FBI's high-tech snooping enabled the agency to penetrate the workplaces of Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, and hear about Buryakov's work for it, prosecutors said.
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