How Russia Outsourced an Assassination in America

<p>A Russian intelligence-linked network allegedly recruited people already inside the U.S. to surveil a prominent Russian dissident in the Washington, D.C., area. The price was up to $1,500 for photographs and videos. The offer to carry out the murder was $40,000.</p><p>In this episode of <em>The Watch Floor</em>, Sarah Adams breaks down how the operation moved from Russia through Cuban and Venezuelan intermediaries to a Brooklyn resident, why the completed surveillance matters, and how the same network was allegedly tied to assassination and sabotage operations across Europe.</p><p>The plot reveals a model that is cheaper, harder to trace, and designed to place distance between the Russian government and the person closest to the target.</p><p>The assassination was not carried out. The pre-operational surveillance was.</p>