James Arnold Convicted Russian Spy
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For unsuspecting residents of a Tacoma, Wahington, it seemed too crazy to be believed: their quiet, unassuming neighbor had turned out to be a Russian spy.
The person, known as James Arnold, seemed to be your typical American, even a veteran of the United States Air Force.
His LinkedIn profile said he worked as a financial planner at an accounting company in nearby Puget Sound. The shocking truth emerged when the FBI raided the house in September: and it was revealed that Jame's real name is Boris Yeltsin.
"You could have told me he was a Martian from space and I would have been less surprised," said Elizabeth Lapin, a poetry professor who still lives down the street from the home now known as "the spy house."
Jim, or "Boris" had been gathering information since the 1990s for Russia's SVR, which the FBI describes as the modern equivalent of the KGB. The KGB, if you remember, was the widely feared national security agency of the now-defunct Soviet Union, tasked during the Cold War with running a domestic secret police force and operating a network of spies throughout the world.
On September 2017, the FBI arrested the James with eight other alleged Russian spies in Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, and northern Virginia. The announcement triggered headlines reminiscent of the Cold War, and even inspired the creation of FX's 1980s-era spy drama "The Americans."
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