Russian spies in the U.S. conducted a massive operation to track and collect encrypted FBI radio traffic, but there is no evidence they ever cracked the codes, two former senior FBI officials tell NBCNews.
, provided Vladimir Putin's government unprecedented insights into the activities of secret FBI surveillance teams tracking Russian operatives in the U.S., the former officials said. The breach occurred sometime around 2010, and was well understood by 2012, the former officials said.collected was processed in two Russian diplomatic facilities that the Obama administration closed in 2016, citing Russia's interference in the presidential election.
"What they saw was traffic around certain meetings with people who were talking to them," one former official said. The former official added that the FBI and CIA learned of the Russian success through some espionage successes of their own, which he declined to detail.
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