WHITFIELD: A Russian spy ring thinking they were stealing and trading classified U.S. information. They had no clue they were the ones being watched. Our Jill Dougherty has fascinating insight into a world of global espionage happening right under all of our noses.</s>JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The FBI releases a treasure-trove of videos, photos and heavily edited documents from Operation: Ghost Stories. An undercover peek at how a Russian spy ring collected and passed on information, how the FBI trailed them and finally cracked the operation. In one video from January 2010, Anna Chapman, the red headed bombshell who later went on to fame in Moscow as a TV host, sits in a New York coffee shop wearing designer sunglasses, unknowingly talking with an undercover FBI agent about problems with her laptop that she uses to communicate with Russian officials. "You are ready for the next step, OK," he asks. "OK," she says. "This is not laptop to laptop. This is person to person," the agent says. In another video, the classic spy technique, a brush pass, as another spy trades off a bag full of cash with a Russian official as they pass in a train station. The FBI was forced to release the material recorded over the decade the FBI had the 10 Russians under surveillance as part of a Freedom of Information Act request and it looks just like a spy movie. Including one Russian digging up a package of money from what in spy lingo is called a dead drop. This spy ring is over, but the FBI says it's not the end of the story.</s>FRANK FIGLUZZI, FBI: The U.S. remains the target of most of the world's spying. And again, as long as we have policy information, technology and research that the rest of the world wants and as long as foreign Intel services want to gain a strategic advantage against us, we'll continue to be the target of that kind of spying.</s>DOUGHERTY (on camera): Anna Chapman and the others were sent home in a spy swap last year, but their techniques live on. Jill Dougherty, CNN, the State Department.
Russian Spies Caught on Tape