From fake birth certificates to rooftop antennas, Argentine investigative journalist Hugo Alconada Mon traced how Moscow embedded two spies in Buenos Aires for over a decade — and what their story reveals about how intelligence agencies operate worldwide.
Welcome to Whale Hunting, where we follow the hidden power networks that operate in plain sight.
This week, we turn to Buenos Aires — and a story that reads like a Cold War thriller. For more than a decade, two Russian spies lived quietly in Argentina under false identities, raising children, paying taxes, and cheering for the national team at the 2018 World Cup. Journalist Hugo Alconada Mon uncovered their double life, exposing how Moscow embedded deep-cover agents across Latin America — and how spycraft still thrives in an age of data surveillance and digital footprints.
What begins as a local mystery unfolds into a global lesson on deception, intelligence, and the limits of trust in open societies.
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