Operation Shocker
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Operation Shocker
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Operation Shocker was a 23-year counterintelligence operation run by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation against the Soviet Union. The operation involved the fake defection in place of a US Army sergeant based in Washington, D.C. who, in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars over two decades, provided information to Soviet intelligence (GRU) as agreed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This included over 4,000 documents on a new nerve gas the US believed unweaponizable, with the US intending
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Shocker
date created:
2013-12-03T02:04:38Z
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2024-09-11T02:56:30Z
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